"Incorporating the Latinx community." How city and regional magazine editors in heavily Latinx populated communities include Latinx voices

Abstract

This research aimed to learn how city and regional editors in areas with a high Latinx population incorporate their heavily populated Latinx community into their coverage. Through eight semi-structured interviews with city and regional editors, this research found how they include Latinx voices through story and source selection. The editors provided examples of how they include the Latinx community, such as holding workshops to learn how to communicate with the community, working with Latinx reporters or taking Spanish classes. Another avenue to make sure the Latinx communities were involved was through increasing newsroom diversity. Overall, this research found that throughout every editorial process editors had to make an effort to include their Latinx communities through sources and story selection. Editors had to be entrenched in their communities and make sure the stories they pitched and edited had Latinx voices.