How is working for El Diario/La Prensa different from working for a more mainstream daily?
We’re covering a very specific community but at the same time it’s very complex especially in a place like New York City. Latinos are everywhere here and I think what we’re finding out across the nation is that Latinos are everywhere nationally. We are a community paper covering the Latino community and we’re covering stories always with that angle in mind. I think that most Spanish-language papers in this country are in the situation that El Diario is in where we don’t have the big resources of the mainstream daily newspaper. We are probably in the same situation as a lot of other community newspapers, we don’t have a lot of the same resources but we have a lot of the contacts. People in the community turn to us for help. I don’t know how many newspapers have that situation where people in the community feel like they have a problem and they literally walk to the newspaper to get help. Q: What issues do you see presented in El Diario that aren’t examined in the mainstream press? A: We
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