Posts tagged with Local-Global

First posted at Journalism, Journalists and The World Interesting look by Pew at the digital divide between U.S.-born Latinos and their foreign-born counterparts. Seems the U.S. born are more likely to have regular Internet access. The Latino Digital Divide: The Native Born Versus The Foreign Born What does this mean? Think about it. Access to […]

First posted at Journalism, Journalists and the World. NPR had a fun piece today about how the United States is now a spicier nation. U.S. Is A Spicier Nation (Literally) Since 1970s I am glad to see that seasoning other than salt is making its way into the US kitchen. (Much healthier.) And I am […]

There has been a lot of coverage in the Caribbean about the arrest of alleged drug lord José Figueroa Agosto in Puerto Rico and his girlfriend Sobeida Felix Morel. Figuero is wanted on more money laundering, drug and murder charges than can be enumerated here. (Suffice it to say his operations are said to have […]

Maybe we could get a few student journalists and j-profs to submit material to this project to see if we can get what we do and why included. Life In A Day: July 24

First posted at Journalism, Journalists and the World. Interesting story in the Times magazine this weekend: Digital Diplomacy. It got me thinking that just 10-15 years ago the State Department was at the absolute bottom of rankings in use of technology. The main State HQ in Washington and the embassies around the world still depended […]