About Us

Each week we will offer you some of the best ethnic news stories and opinions in New England.  As a digital portal, the New England Ethnic Newswire strives to be not just a window, but a door.

We hope to bring together the following siloed elements of our region: voices from different ethnic groups and cultures; the best stories from ethnic media of New England; teens and student journalists, teachers and coaches from UMass Boston and the local mainstream media; news consumers of all kinds; research; links to community, business and government resources; and opportunities to connect across our cultures.

We hope that with new insights and information from NEWz, you will be inspired to take a more active role in your own neighborhoods and communities, in the nation and the "global village." 

Ethnic media outlets in New England who would like their original content to be posted on EthnicNEWz.org are encouraged to inquire at EthnicNews (at) yahoo (dot) com.

Who are the ethnic media?

See our Ethnic Media Database for New England, with contacts and other information about the region's diverse media outlets.  Research about ethnic media is collected for you, and original research on regional African-American, Latino and other ethnic media has been done by the NEWz team.

We e-mail a weekly newsletter with headlines to policymakers and subscribers, alerting them to new content.  To receive the newsletter, please send an e-mail to EthnicNews (at) yahoo (dot) com.

STAFF

PublisherEllen Hume supervises the NEWz project, which she created in 2006 with ethnic media leaders from Greater Boston. A former executive director of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, she has taught at UMass Boston, where she founded the Center on Media and Society in 2004 as part of the McCormack Graduate School. Ellen is currently research director of the Center for Future Civic Media at MIT. She has more than 30 years of journalism and teaching experience that includes working as a White House and political correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Detroit Free Press, Santa Barbara News Press and Somerville (MA.) Journal, and various radio stations, television networks and magazines. Her work can be seen at www.ellenhume.com.

Editor in ChiefFrank Herron oversees the journalistic work of the New England Ethnic Newswire. He teaches in the political science and communication studies departments at UMass Boston. He has a master's degree in media studies from Syracuse University and a bachelor's degree in history from Cornell University. He worked as an editor and staff writer for more than 18 years at The Post-Standard newspaper in Syracuse, N.Y., and taught newswriting as an adjunct instructor at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications for 13 years. Contact Frank here

EditorM. Thang is the editor of New England Ethnic News and a Boston-based writer who covers multicultural issues, health and media. Her stories have appeared in the Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter, Sampan newspaper, New America Media and other web sites. Contact Mary here

Senior EditorKenneth J. Cooper is a senior advisor, contributor and coach to the NEWz project. He is a freelance journalist who was national editor of the Boston Globe, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for reporting on racism in Boston. He also served as the South Asia Bureau Chief and national education writer for the Washington Post. He is a 2006-7 fellow at the Center on Media and Society, home of NEWz. He wrote NEWz' history of African American newspapers in New England. Contact Ken here

WebmasterCharlotte Corbett is the lead designer and webmaster of NEWz. She is a freelance web consultant who specializes in making websites accessible to all people, including those with special needs. She teaches "Technology & Special Education" and "Advanced Computer-based Training" at UMass Boston as an adjunct faculty member. She has a MA in Educational Technology Leadership from George Washington University. Contact Charlotte here

Publishing Team: Adam Smith, Henry Rafael (research), Hitesh Hathi (project development), Bill Forry (project development), Ed Fouhy (project development), Darek Barcikowski (project development), Irene Yukhnananov (website development), and Rick Hood (Web designer).