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A Spanish language newsletter and website. launched by the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada-Rena. sought to highlight issues of importance to the Latino population in North Lake Tahoe. The site focused on environmental, employment, economics, housing, and community cohesion issues. Several Latino residents wrote regularly for the publication, which was distributed in the Kings Beach and Incline Village communities. Is has been inactive since late 2009
2007 grantee Donica Mensing talks about getting the community involved in environmental journalism. This interview took place on April 5, 2008, at the New Voices 2007 Grantee Meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn in Washington, D.C.
Project Updates
- Nuestro Tahoe Struggles with Contributors, Sustainability (August, 2009) - It’s a problem familiar to many community news sites – how to keep contributors contributing. After a very active first year, Nuestro Tahoe’s community news site has struggled to keep contributions coming. “We have one primary Latino writer who has journalism experience,” says project director Donica Mensing, who is also an Associate Professor at the […]
- Living La Vida Tahoe (August, 2008) - Nuestro Tahoe made its debut in the Spring of 2008. Billed as “A place for Spanish and English speakers in North Tahoe to work together on community issues that affect all of us,” the Ning site functions as part newspaper, part social network, and part community service center. In May and June, the bilingual journalism […]
- Nevando en Nevada (Snowing in Nevada) (March, 2008) - Mother Nature proved a formidable competitor in the race to launch University of Nevada Reno’s Bilingual Environmental Journalism project, an eco-news initiative that aims to engage Lake Tahoe’s growing Latino community. UNR’s Donica Mensing says record snowfall made travel from Reno to Tahoe tougher than ever. “Roads are often closed and when they are open […]
- Bilingual News: The Fire Next Time (November, 2007) - Initially, the Reynolds School of Journalism in Reno proposed to create a bilingual website that would serve the growing Hispanic population of Kings Beach, a small town on the shores of Lake Tahoe, Nevada. To that end, project coordinators met with several Hispanic community leaders in Kings Beach to learn more about the community and […]
