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DESCRIPTION:COMMUNITY-BASED POLICY APPROACHES \nTO SUSTAINING AND STRENGTHENING LOCAL 
 AND ETHNIC MEDIA\n\nThursday, June 2, 2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm 
 PT\n\nRSVP: 
 https://pen.org/event/community-based-policy-approaches-to-sustaining-and-strengthening-local-and-ethnic-media/\n\nJoin 
 California Common Cause’s Media and Democracy Working Group and PEN 
 America Los Angeles for a panel conversation on community-based media 
 policy solutions for supporting local and ethnic media.\n\nCalifornia has 
 lost a quarter of its newspapers and half its newsroom staff in the last 15 
 years, with news deserts emerging around the state. The loss of local and 
 ethnic media outlets has left a void—a void that has quickly filled with 
 online disinformation targeting and exploiting our communities. Without 
 accurate, independent news and information at the local level, communities 
 cannot hold local governments accountable and our democracy cannot thrive. 
 \n\nIn collaboration with the California Media & Democracy Working Group, 
 California Common Cause and PEN America invite you to join this timely 
 conversation about strategies for community-based policy models that could 
 help rebuild and sustain a robust news information ecosystem in California. 
 \n\nPANEL:\n\n--Brittney Barsotti of California News Publishers 
 Association, Darlie Gervais of Center of Community Media,\n\n--Simon 
 Galperin of Bloomfield Information Project\n\n--Joaquin Uy of City of 
 Seattle’s Ethnic Media Program\n\n--Arturo Carmona of Latino Media 
 Collaborative\n\nThe panel will be moderated by Hannah Waltz, PEN 
 America’s U.S. Free Expression Programs coordinator and will be welcomed 
 by Maya Chupkov, the Media & Democracy Program Manager at California Common 
 Cause. \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/05/20/18849846.php
SUMMARY:Community-based Approaches to Sustaining & Strengthening Local & Ethnic Media in CA
LOCATION:Online event
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/05/20/18849846.php
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