Where Mainstream Immigration Reporting Falls Short, Ethnic Media Outlets Step Up

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

As ICE raids sweep across the country as a part of President Trump’s anti-immigrant policies, ethnic media outlets in California are playing an invaluable role keeping the communities they serve informed. We talk with media organizations that serve immigrant and diaspora audiences about how their communities are dealing with the impacts of the administration’s enforcement actions, how their approaches to news coverage has had to change, and what they think is coming next. Guests: Madeleine Bair, journalist and founder, El Tímpano Memo Torres, writer and director of engagement, L.A. Taco, a Southern California source of news and information covering food, culture and community Tanay Gokhale, community reporter, India Currents Julian Do, co-director, American Community Media Dzung Do, editor, Nguoi Viet Daily News Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.2	As ice raids sweep across the country as part of President Trump's anti-immigrant policies,
1:13.6	ethnic media outlets in California are playing an invaluable role keeping the communities they serve informed. We talk with media organizations that serve different immigrant and diaspora audiences
1:18.6	about how their communities are dealing with the impacts of the administration's enforcement actions,
1:23.6	how their approaches to news coverage has had to change and what they think is coming
1:29.1	next. That's all coming up next right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:51.0	Community media done well can be an important sensor for what's going on inside individual ethnic communities.
1:59.0	Whether the papers of your or new digital entities, they can pick up what mainstream media might miss or leave out.
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