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The Latino Newsletter Secures Major Grant to Expand Puerto Rico Work BOSTON / SAN JUAN  — Today, The Latino Newsletter announced a $300,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to expand the organization’s San Juan bureau and produce American Colony, a bilingual podcast se...

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Thank you to Mellon Foundation.

The Latino Newsletter Secures Major Grant to Expand Puerto Rico Work BOSTON / SAN JUAN  — Today, The Latino Newsletter announced a $300,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to expand the organization’s San Juan bureau and produce American Colony, a bilingual podcast se...

I clicked 'publish' instead of 'schedule' for the big @thelatinonewsletter.org announcement we were making first thing on Monday morning. So I'm sharing now since it is public.

The Latino Newsletter Secures Major Grant to Expand Puerto Rico Work

A Hedge Fund’s Grip on Local News New PBS documentary explains how Alden Global Capital gutted newspapers — and what we can still save.

"This is not an industry problem. This is a society problem. How do we make vibrant and well-supported this essential service that is the lifeblood of democracy?"

@julito77.bsky.social talks with the director of the new to PBS doc "Stripped for Parts" about hedge funds and the future of news.

May the Cubbies win it for my 'abuelo' My grandfather was the biggest Cubs fan I ever knew, and on a summer afternoon in 1985, we both rooted for the Cubs and for Puerto Rico.

I kind of am :) from 7 years ago

Seriously.

I got to file for @usatoday.com magazine this Hispanic Heritage Month

That sucked. But the Red Sox's future is bright.

If I weren't a Red Sox fan, I would be a Cubs fan. I wrote a piece for ESPN years ago about why. It is because of my abuelo in Puerto Rico. Every time I watch the Cubs, I think of Papito Juan.

Free Press, CPJ Sound Alarm as Journalist Mario Guevara Faces Deportation for His Reporting His case is emblematic of this administration’s repeated acts of retaliation against dissent — targeting immigrants, students, law firms, universities, media outlets and independent journalists.

Free Press, CPJ Sound Alarm as Journalist Mario Guevara Faces Deportation for His Reporting via @freepress.bsky.social

That wasn't fun.

Happy news only today.

Chants! T-shirts! Corruption! Censorship! Awkwardness!

It had it all.

Face to Face with the Censorship Czar I went to the FCC, and all I brought was this fabulous T-shirt.

The latest edition of Pressing Issues, the @freepress.bsky.social newsletter, is by @notaaroncraig.bsky.social, who writes about what he witnessed during today's #FCC meeting.

Face to Face with the Censorship Czar

This Red Sox game is actually what I needed.

Sogard.
Yoshida.

LFG

#MLBPlayoffs

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Statement SAN JUAN — Like a conquering Boricua, Puerto Rican global superstar Bad Bunny revealed on social media Sunday that he will perform at the Super Bowl LX halftime show, the sacred ground of American nat...

The September 28 edition of @thelatinonewsletter.org is the latest column by Susanne Ramirez de Arellano

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Statement
A halftime show in Spanish against America’s colonial gaze

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Opinion | My father is a journalist. The Trump administration is about to deport him. I will continue to fight for his freedom, and the freedom of all those who ask the hard questions

Opinion | My father is a journalist. The Trump administration is about to deport him.

By Oscar Guevara, son of #MarioGuevara via
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Free Press and the Committee to Protect Journalists Lead Brief in Support of Detained Journalist Mario Guevara The targeting, muzzling, detention and possible deportation of beloved journalist Mario Guevara is as legally unjust as it is a sign of the Trump administration’s censorship scheme.

Free Press, @pressfreedom.bsky.social and other groups have filed an amicus brief in support of journalist Mario Guevara, who has been unjustly detained for more than 100 days.

Our statement:

"There's no other case like this right now. Mario is the only journalist in the United States jailed for his reporting." - @attorneynora.bsky.social with @kadiatubman.bsky.social of @scrippsnews.bsky.social

Nice to see @theguardian.com quoting our @freepress.bsky.social legal filings directed to Brendan Carr's FCC a/k/a the Federal Censorship Commission.

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The Euros would like Ryder Cup to just be foursome format only, please.

Contributors*

Yes, Red Sox are back in playoffs. Cedanne walkoff triple!

Why Big Tech’s Push for Data Centers Should Worry Us All Communities everywhere are ramping up resistance to the extraction and pollution powering AI.

Another PressingIssues.org debut!

Welcome, @ruddock.bsky.social to the growing list of @freepress.bsky.social contrinbutors

Why Big Tech’s Push for Data Centers Should Worry Us All

A Big Win for the First Amendment in Retaliatory Case Filed Against Journalist Timothy Burke Judge Mizelle’s decision is a crucial victory for the First Amendment — for journalists, for internet users, and, most immediately, for Timothy Burke.

Big Win for the First Amendment in Retaliatory Case Filed Against Journalist Timothy Burke via @freepress.bsky.social

Over the last week, NESN, the network that broadcasts Red Sox games (and is owned by the Red Sox), has run the ICE Boston law enforcement recruiting ad at least 10 times. I counted 3 times alone during last night's broadcast.

American golfers are really awful at Ryder Cup.

68 weeks of @thelatinonewsletter.org and I have things to say