<p style=”text-align:start;”><a href=”https://www.wfae.org/” target=”_self”><span style=”color: rgb(0,0,0);”>WFAE, the public radio station</span></a> <span style=”color: rgb(0,0,0);”>serving the Charlotte, North Carolina region, has been around for nearly 40 years. In that time, the area has seen a dramatic increase in its Latino population.</span></p>
<p style=”text-align:start;”><span style=”color: rgb(0,0,0);”>Ju-Don Marshall, WFAE’s chief content officer and executive vice president, recently wrote a</span> <a href=”https://betternews.org/charlotte-newsrooms-partner-to-hire-immigration-reporter/” target=”_self”><span style=”color: rgb(0,0,0);”>report for the Better News Initiative</span></a> <span style=”color: rgb(0,0,0);”>on how the radio station changed its approach to better engage the region’s Latino population. This included an equitable partnership with</span> <a href=”https://lanoticia.com/” target=”_self”><span style=”color: rgb(0,0,0);”>La Noticia</span></a>, a Spanish-language newspaper serving North Carolina<span style=”color: rgb(0,0,0);”>, and a joint</span> <a href=”https://www.reportforamerica.org/” target=”_self”><span style=”color: rgb(0,0,0);”>Report for America reporter</span></a><span style=”color: rgb(0,0,0);”>.</span></p>
<p style=”text-align:start;”><span style=”color: rgb(0,0,0);”>On this episode of Better News, Marshall and Hilda Gurdian, publisher of La Noticia, tell host Michael O’Connell how they made this partnership a success not only for their newsrooms but the communities they serve.</span></p>
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