WFAE, the public radio station serving the Charlotte, North Carolina region, has been around for nearly 40 years. In that time, the area has seen a dramatic increase in its Latino population.
Ju-Don Marshall, WFAE’s chief content officer and executive vice president, recently wrote a report for the Better News Initiative on how the radio station changed its approach to better engage the region’s Latino population. This included an equitable partnership with La Noticia, a Spanish-language newspaper serving North Carolina, and a joint Report for America reporter.
On this episode of Better News, Marshall and Hilda Gurdian, publisher of La Noticia, tell host Michael O’Connell how they made this partnership a success not only for their newsrooms but the communities they serve.
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