Definitions
Starting with a shared understanding of language is required for the execution of the vision and mission. We hope that these working definitions serves as guiding posts for your understanding of our purpose.
Building Our Ecosystem
We are taking a systems wide approach to understanding media and journalism. Our vision is to build an ecosystem of multicultural, bilingual, and entrepreneurial journalists and media leaders. Al Día Foundation is interwoven into a larger media ecology. The media ecology has existed historically to serve.
Ecosystem:
Community or group of systems that live in and interact with each other in a specific environment.
Multicultural:
Inclusive of all cultural identities including diverse identities within a persons, race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic that makes an individual cultural identity.
Bilingual:
A person who speaks two languages or more.
Entrepreneurial:
A person who is a leader in innovation, a source for ideas, goods, services, and business.
Our Three Priorities
ENDING THE INFODEMIC
First Draft News (2021) published recent content on the real impact of media literacy on our communities. Disinformation, disinformation and misinformation plague our communities creating a higher level of vulnerability. This lack of trust in the media psychologically impacts our decision making, creating a higher level of cognitive dissonance, and pluralistic ignorance.
If we build an ecosystem of trusted leaders and community members, we become leaders in ending the infodemic plaguing our communities.
REPRESENTATION
We all understand that this program is critically important to society, however more and more, society has determined that diversity in the newsroom is critical to the national and international ecosystem. According to the United States Census Data, individuals from the Hispanic and Latino community make up 60M of our population. The US Census also noted that this year’s census was flawed due to the record amount of folks who were unreported or undocumented. In 2018, a study conducted by The Pew determined that newsrooms are 74% non-Hispanic white employees (The Pew Research Center, 2018). A New Leaders Association Report sadly found that journalist from a non-white identity make up 22.8 percent of newsrooms nationally (2019). Despite the ever-growing concern about diversity in the newsroom, a 2021 Reuters Report showed the diversity in the newsroom is still lacking. In short, we are poised to make a significant impact in newsrooms across the nation.
Diversity in Newsroom Map
Source: Google News Initiative
COVERAGE
Our coverage of the Latino experience in the United States is critical to Latino history. As we continue to lead in the development of history, Latino's require continued coverage by journalist and leaders who look like them.