USC Center for Health Journalism

🤝 This free webinar is jointly offered by @journalists.org and the USC Center for Health Journalism, and is made possible by The @calendow.bsky.social

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Hear from our panelists Enrique Chiabra, news anchor and reporter at @telemundo52.com, Mariana Duran, bilingual reporter at @eltecolotesf.bsky.social, and Teena Apeles, National Engagement Editor at @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social

🔗 Learn more about the panelists at bit.ly/EthnicMediaPanelists

What can reporters and news outlets learn from ethnic and in-language media outlets that go the extra mile to connect with their communities? How do we focus efforts that center community voices?

⏳ Don't miss our webinar coming up this Thursday, March 12!

Join us for "Covering Communities at Risk: What Can Reporters and Outlets Learn from Ethnic Media?"

🔗 Register now at bit.ly/EthnicMediaPanelReg

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#Webinar #CommunityEngagement #EthnicMedia #HealthJournalism #HealthReporting @uscedu.bsky.social

This webinar is free and made possible by The
@calendow.bsky.social

Panelists:
Enrique Chiabra , news anchor and reporter, @telemundo52.com

Mariana Duran, bilingual reporter,
eltecolotesf.bsky.social

Teena Apeles, National Engagement Editor, Center for Health Journalism

The founder of the Center for Health Journalism, Michelle Levander, will moderate.

📌 Register for our next webinar on March 12, 12 pm PDT!
Covering Communities at Risk: What Can Reporters and Outlets Learn from Ethnic Media?

🔗 Learn more and register at bit.ly/EthnicMediaPanelists

This webinar jointly offered by @journalists.org and @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social

Growing healthy food to narrow Chicago's 20-year life expectancy gap: ‘If we eat better, we do better’ Chicagoans are expected to die earlier in West Garfield Park than in any other neighborhood in the city. Sammie and Angela Taylor support a network of community gardens to help close that gap.

Your Friday joy ... a trip to a community garden in Chicago's West Garfield Park, where Angela & Sammie Taylor are doing their part to help people live longer on the West Side: tinyurl.com/mwfetr2c @wbez.org @chicago.suntimes.com @shiakapos.bsky.social @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social

Illinois prisons were ordered to improve health care for inmates. They've spent seven years failing. Even though the Illinois Department of Corrections has been under a consent decree since 2019, the state continues to fail to provide adequate medical and dental care to incarcerated people, according...

Johnnie Flournoy, a 74-yr-old man incarcerated in IL, says he's nearly blind bc for years he has been denied a simple treatment for glaucoma. He's not at all alone. His story of medical neglect is a common one in IL prisons. @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/health/2026/...

👉 Join the conversation at #CAEthnicMedia
👀 Follow bit.ly/CHJHealingCA to read our stories from the collaborative

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Together, these change-makers challenged us to report with context, balance, courage, and care. Because our communities need journalism that listens, reflects, & builds trust.

✨ The first round of stories goes live this week. Follow to be first to read & amplify the next round.

Still thinking about the powerful conversations from our 2026 Ethnic Media Collaborative. 💬✨✊

From immigrant mental health & equitable sourcing, to community-led storytelling & evidence-based headlines, this symposium reminded us that journalism can change lives.

Duluth’s aging and lead-laden homes are poisoning children Portions of two Duluth neighborhoods have the highest rates of children with elevated blood lead levels of any census tract in the state, according to new Minnesota Department of Health data.

Portions of the East Hillside and Endion neighborhoods have the highest childhood elevated blood lead level rates in the state, at 9.1% and 9.2%, respectively.

Produced as part of the @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social 2025 Data fellowship.
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The Health Divide: The cost of a medical education is changing who can afford to become a doctor There’s growing evidence that medicine risks losing talent from poor and working-class, Black and Latino communities. Ultimately, patient care will suffer as a result.

When you have to be rich to become a doctor, patients pay a price. My latest for @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social centerforhealthjournalism.org/our-work/ins...

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We look forward to the important work on immigrant health, justice systems and health, and mental health and mental health care that the collaborative will produce over the year ahead.

👉 Follow the conversation at #CAEthnicMedia.

#HealthJournalism #HealthReporting #ImmigrantHealth #MentalHealth

We extend our sincerest thanks to @blueshieldca.bsky.social Foundation, the @calendow.bsky.social, the @chcfnews.bsky.social and the @calwellness.bsky.social Foundation for supporting this mission and making this year’s Ethnic Media Collaborative possible.

The participants then embarked on two days filled with thought-provoking panels, brainstorming workshops and unforgettable moments of connection, all grounded in a shared commitment to advancing health equity across California. Look out for a recap of the talks by featured panelists next week.

We kicked off the symposium with dinner — a time to socialize, meet each other and introduce our new Collaborative Editor, Katie Tandy 👏 — and our keynote speaker, Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH, an Impact Fellow at UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

⏪ We welcomed our 2026 Ethnic Media Collaborative participants — Bakersfield Observer, @indiacurrents.bsky.social, La Opinión, @newsfromnativeca.bsky.social, Radio Bilingüe, and SBS International — with a 3-day symposium at the @usc.edu campus.

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This initiative is made possible thanks to the generous support of @blueshieldca.bsky.social Foundation, @calendow.bsky.social, the @chcfnews.bsky.social Foundation and the @calwellness.bsky.social Foundation.

👉 Follow the conversation at #CAEthnicMedia.

@chjreportinghealth.bsky.social is pleased to launch the 2026 Ethnic Media Collaborative, with a Feb. 2-4 symposium on the USC campus that brings together six California outlets serving Black, Latino, Korean, Indian and Native American audiences.

🔗 Learn more at bit.ly/CAEthnicMedia2026

This Texas County Is the Deadliest Place in the U.S. for Black Mothers to Give Birth Health care advocates struggle to figure out why this Texas county has some of the nation’s highest rates of maternal and infant mortality.

We're going backwards on Black #maternalhealth in this country

This Texas County Is the Deadliest Place in the US for Black Mothers to Give Birth capitalbnews.org/black-matern... by @moniquewelch.bsky.social via @capitalb.bsky.social @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social CC: @blackmamasmatter.bsky.social