Audiences are shrinking for Hispanic- and black-oriented U.S. news media

Audiences are shrinking for Hispanic- and black-oriented U.S. news media

Victor Landa August 1, 2018

In a fact sheet released this week, Pew looks at how “news media made by and for the two largest racial/ethnic minority groups in the United States — blacks and Hispanics” […]

How 3 Latina Comic Book Artists Carved Out a Space in a Male-Dominated Industry

NewsTaco October 17, 2016

*These 3 young Latinas are killing it in a white male dominated world! VL By Yara Simón, Remezcla (8.5 minute read)  In 2014, comics historian and researcher Tim Hanley summed […]

Why Hollywood Can’t Put Real-Life Mexicans on TV

NewsTaco May 26, 2016

*There’s a very good point in the second layer of this story, about how the use of the word “pocho” revealed a telling lack in decision-making Hollywood. The fact that […]

George Lopez, Edward James Olmos And Jackie Cruz On The First Latino They Saw On TV

NewsTaco May 20, 2016

*This is kinda’ cool, like a game. Who was the first Latino I saw on TV? It was Desi Arnaz, on I Love Lucy. On a U.S.-made film it was […]

Political Shows Lack Latino Voices

NewsTaco May 13, 2016

*Here’s what works: I wrote a weekly opinion column for the San Antonio Light and later for the San Antonio Express News for a total of 20 years. I got […]

It’s 2016 and Latino Representation on TV Is Finally Starting to Reflect Reality

NewsTaco April 12, 2016

*Well that’s a step in a good direction. VL By  Ellie Kaufman, Mic Latinos make up 17% of the U.S. population. They account for 32% of frequent moviegoers. But as […]

Gael Garcia Bernal, Gregory Nava among new diversity Academy appointees

NewsTaco March 16, 2016

*There are 51 members of of the AMPAS board of directors, three new members are from minority communities. Three out of 54. It’s a start, but Latinos purchase 25% of movie […]

NewsTaco Podcast Network, Episode 2: Two Laredenses

NewsTaco February 24, 2016

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco I catch up with my high school friend Billy Nericcio, now a Chicano literary theorist, cultural critic, American Literature scholar, and Professor of English andComparative Literature at […]

Hollywood is missing a big opportunity with Latinos

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*There’s an incongruity when Latinos are 1/4 of the nation’s moviegoers and big industry executives say that Latinos are driving retail sales but Latinos are almost invisible in the entertainment […]

“Give Us One of Those Latin Bombshell Dances” : Lupe Velez Comic-Generated!

NewsTaco February 22, 2016

*We’re big fans of Memo Nericcio’s take on Mexican-American stereotypes in mass media. He keeps us current and sharp. VL Another Great Chapter in the History of Mexicans in American […]