LIVE From Las Vegas: Covering Latino Communities

In The Thick

Futuro Media

News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

It’s ITT’s first live show of 2022! Maria and Julio travel to the NABJ-NAHJ Convention at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada to talk about the complexity of Latino communities and the role of journalists who are reporting on them. They’re joined by Lori Montenegro, Washington D.C. bureau chief for Noticias Telemundo, and Ed O’Keefe, Senior White House & Political Correspondent for CBS News to discuss what is being missed in media coverage of the Latino vote and Latino communities broadly. We also hear from other journalists at the convention about what issues are most important to the communities they cover across the country.

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Photo credit: Courtesy of Jesus J. Montero

Thank you to the Walton Family Foundation who made this live show possible.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey dear listener, a quick favor.
0:03.5	We're conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful if you could take just
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0:15.6	To take our survey today, that's survey.prx.org slash futuro.
0:22.8	Thank you.
0:52.8	I'm here right now watching Marina Hosa, literally embracing the Bellagio Fountains.
1:08.8	After our recording at the National Association of Black Journalists, National Association
1:14.2	of Hispanic Journalists, Conference in Las Vegas.
1:20.7	Now the one thing people need to know is that if you're an in-the-thick fan, as Maria celebrates
1:28.2	the Fountains, we were here in 2020 doing the same thing, right, and that was when we
1:38.2	thought, oh this is going to be a great year and next year you know the pandemic happened
1:42.8	and here we are.
1:44.3	I'm Maria.
1:45.3	And right on cue, the music ends.
1:47.6	It is so crazy to be back here Julio.
1:49.7	I'm sorry that you all just had to deal with me going crazy about the water show, but
1:54.4	I love these things.
1:55.8	But here we are recording in the thick.
1:58.2	We are literally in front of the Bellagio on the strip.
2:01.2	It's a beautiful weekend afternoon, it's hot, but we're under a nice shade, right?
2:06.9	And we just finished this incredible live recording that featured incredible people like White
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