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Start: Mar 2 2008 - 10:30amEnd: Mar 2 2008 - 12:00pm
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Community newspapers and websites fill a void in big city life, airing information, connecting residents and giving them a voice; but many of the city’s poorest neighborhoods have no source of community news.
In the Bronx, where some of the city’s poorest and most poorly-served residents live, a movement has begun to provide for them what their more affluent neighbors take for granted, a source of information and a forum for debate on the issues closest to home.
This panel will include the founding editors of The Hunts Point Express www.huntspointexpress.com and the West Bronx News Network http://westbronxnews.blogspot.com/ and two community activists from the neighborhoods covered by the Norwood News, Highbridge Horizon, Mount Hope Monitor and The Express to showcase the ways in which independent, not-for-profit news can make a difference and to sow the seeds of similar ventures elsewhere in the city.
When he joined the faculty of Hunter College three years ago, Bernard Stein created The Hunts Point Express, a student-staffed, not-for-profit newspaper that serves Hunts Point and Longwood in the South Bronx.
In 1998 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his editorials in The Riverdale Press, the weekly newspaper he and his brother have published for three decades.
Jordan Moss has been editor of the Norwood News, a nonprofit community newspaper, since 1994. He founded the West Bronx News Network, a community journalism collaborative, in 2006, and he co-founded the Independent Press Association-NY, which serves ethnic and community newspapers. Moss lives in the Bronx with his wife and daughter.
Since 2006, Adam Liebowitz has directed the after-school environmental advocacy and youth development program for teens at The Point, the community center devoted to the youth and cultural and economic revitalization of Hunts Point, and has represented The Point on a wide range of environmental and social justice issues.