Student NAHJ chapter will sponsor documentary screening

The NAHJ Student Chapter will show "Below the Fold - The Pulitzer that Defined Latino Journalism" on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. in the Marshall Building Room 350. Students will gather in Room 312 before moving to Room 350 to watch the film.

Olga Briseño, director of the Media, Democracy and Policy Initiative at the UA, has offered to screen the short documentary.

Here is a synopsis about the 30-some-minute documentary from the Media, Policy and Democracy Initiative Web site:

"The year was 1984. A group of Chicano reporters at the LA Times pushed to provide a new perspective on California's Latino population -- something more than the poverty, gangs, and crime that the newspaper usually covered. Their reporting won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service that year. This groundbreaking series offered an in-depth examination of southern California's growing Latino community and was one of the first to accurately represent it. Prior to this prize winning series, a distorted view of Latinos had been perpetuated in the media, a view which is still perpetuated today. These journalists set out to change that while becoming an important voice in telling the story of the underrepresented Latino community in California."

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