Below the Fold

Below the Fold The Pulitzer That Defined Latino Journalism is a 2007 American documentary film written and directed by Roberto Gudio to chronicle the story of the Mexican American journalists of the Los Angeles Times who responded to negative portrayals of Latinos in the newspaper by publishing Latinos newspaper series. Filmed on locations in Arizona, California and New York, the project debuted at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival in October, 2007.

MexicanAmerican reporters organized and approached the Los Angeles Times editors with a proposed new series indepth feature articles on Southern California Latino life that would go beyond depictions of poverty, gangs, and crime. Their innovative story approach and produced a 27partstory project. Some of their nonHispanic newsroom colleagues made racist comments while the journalists worked, and the team had to fight to get the series nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.Their efforts were rewarded by national recognition in 1984 when they won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the first Latino group to win any Pulitzer. They were honored at the Pulitzer luncheon ceremony at Columbia University where Walter Cronkite and Peter Jennings were in attendance. Above The Fold tells the story of a group of people fighting to make their own voices heard. In doing so, present a complex and rich representation of Latinos in the news media and generally in the U.S. ........

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