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Campaign Teaching Moment for Journalists

In journalism, people of color are still a minority; among journalists of color, those who are opinion writers are a minority within a minority. According to the ASNE's 2008 diversity index, Latinos, African-Americans, Asian-Americans and Native Americans make up just 13.5 percent of newsrooms. African-Americans represent 5.3 percent of print journalists; Hispanics, 4.4 percent; Asian-Americans, 3.2 percent; and Native Americans, 0.5 percent. While the survey doesn't say how many minorities sit on editorial boards or write columns, those of us who have done both can tell yo ...continue


Senate Votes to Roll Back Media Ownership Rule

The Senate Thursday night voted to nullify a Federal Communications Commission rule that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a television station in the same market. ...continue


CBS Agrees to Acquire CNET Networks for $11.50 a share--Total $1.8 billion

CBS Corp. Thursday agreed to acquire CNET Networks Inc. for $11.50 per share, a premium of 44.7% to Wednesday's closing price of $7.95. ...continue


McClatchy Willing to Sell Times Stake

Struggling with falling profits and revenue, The McClatchy Co. said Tuesday that it's willing to sell its 49.5 percent share of The Seattle Times Co. Answering a shareholder's question during the Sacramento, Calif.-based company's annual meeting, McClatchy Chairman and Chief Executive Gary Pruitt responded, "Long term, we would be open to selling" that investment, confirmed McClatchy treasurer Elaine Lintecum, who was at the meeting. ...continue


Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. Reports Results for the First Quarter 2008

Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. (the "Company" or "SBS") (Nasdaq: SBSA) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2008. ...continue


Vodka Advertisement in Mexico Causes Uproar

America's sensitivity to the border issue was recently sparked by an advertisement for vodka that proved to be contentious to anti-immigration groups and individuals across the nation. Swedish-owned vodka company Absolut began an advertising campaign titled "In An Absolut World." The ad that ran in Mexico depicted a pre-1848 map of North America in which U.S. Southwestern states--including California, Texas, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico--were a part of Mexico. The ad generated so much controversy across the United States t ...continue


Univision Appoints New EVP of Client Development and Partnership Marketing

Univision Communications Inc. today announced that advertising sales veteran Lisa McCarthy has joined the company in the position of Executive Vice President of Client Development and Partnership Marketing, effective immediately. ...continue


Heineken USA, ESPN Deportes Deliver 2008 Caribbean Baseball Series to the U.S.

ESPN Deportes, the exclusive home of winter baseball, has signed Heineken USA as the presenting sponsor for its exclusive Spanish-language coverage of the 2008 Caribbean Baseball Series in the U.S. ...continue


Comcast Partners With Hispanic Groups for Voting Initiative

Cable provider Comcast joined Hispanic groups to launch "Our Time to Vote," a year-long, non-partisan voter education and registration campaign designed to increase voting in Hispanic communities served by the cable industry. ...continue


Zubi Launches Holiday Campaign for American

Zubi Advertising, a full-service and independently owned U.S. Hispanic Agency, has launched an integrated Hispanic advertising campaign for American Airlines to reach Latino travelers. ...continue


Linda De Jesús-Cutler Takes Helm of GlobalHue Latino

GlobalHue Latino has named industry veteran Linda De Jesús-Cutler president of the agency, according to Don Coleman, chairman and CEO of GlobalHue. ...continue


Q&A with CEO of Bustos Media LLC

Hispanic Business contributor Alex Ryshawy spoke with Bustos Media LLC President and Chief Executive Officer Amador Bustos about trends affecting the U.S. Hispanic TV and radio industries and his company's strategy for the coming year. ...continue


La Raza Publisher and CEO Steps Down

ImpreMedia announced today that Robert J. Armband, CEO and Publisher of its La Raza Newspaper in Chicago, would step down effective immediately. ...continue


What's Up with QuePasa?

Scottsdale, Arizona-based Quepasa Corp recently announced an executive team shuffle initiated when CEO Robert Stearns resigned his position on October 25 to pursue other opportunities. ...continue


Juanes Helps Ford Promote SYNC

Ford Motor Company has tapped Latin Grammy award-winning artist Juanes to help introduce its SYNC technology -- a new factory-installed, in-car communications and entertainment system that uses voice commands to access Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, digital music players and, when paired to a compatible mobile phone, will even read text messages. ...continue


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