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Reporters at the Herald Examiner, Los Angeles' No. 2 daily, are used to having doors shut in their faces. After the editors announced earlier this year that they would publish a series of tough articles on the city's problems during Mayor Tom Bradley's campaign for a fifth term, the paper's reporters were barred from the mayor's office. But that did not stop them from scooping their powerful rival, the Los Angeles Times, by printing damaging reports about Bradley's finances just three weeks before the election. Last week, however, Herald Examiner staffers faced a far more...
...first time, the White House was deemed worthy of full-time photo coverage. In 1963, as historical events darkened, photojournalism regained some of its tragic power. The A.P.'S Malcolm Browne methodically photographed a Buddhist monk burning himself to death in a Saigon protest. A Dallas Times-Herald photographer caught the instant of Lee Harvey Oswald's death...
Large newspapers are also trying to cash in on the trend: the Miami Herald has considered circulating its daily Spanish edition nationally; the Los Angeles Times plans to make its twice-monthly Spanish insert a weekly next year. Twenty-four dailies carry Vista, an English-language Sunday insert (partly owned by Time Warner) aimed at Hispanic readers...
Many Hispanic journalists with established careers in the so-called mainstream press are attracted to these ventures because of the opportunity to focus exclusively on the Latino community. Guillermo Martinez, a Cuban who was senior editor of the Miami Herald, left to join Univision, where he heads the news department. Univision anchorwoman and producer Teresa Rodriguez has turned down offers from Good Morning, America and two NBC affiliates, preferring to cover Hispanic America in depth...
This really is the people's victory. We are going to herald this as a major step forward in the civil rights movement...