South Sacramento Archive

  • “Youth Against the Hate” Hate Crime Forum – ARI

    “Youth Against the Hate” Hate Crime Forum – ARI

    On October 28th, 2010, Organization of Chinese American OCA, Asian Resources Inc ARI and Sacramento City Unified School District SCUSD hosted the second annual “Youth Against the Hate” Hate Crime Forum at C.K. McClatchy.

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  • “Community Journalism” and Sacramento’s Neighborhood News Bureau Site

    “Community Journalism” and Sacramento’s Neighborhood News Bureau Site

    Dedicated to studying new media trends in the United States, staff members at the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism, have written an article titled, “Community Journalism,” where they analyze the roles of community journalism and its relationship to traditional journalism.  They also seek to uncover the ways in which community journalism can fill gaps [...]

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  • California Endowment Endorses “Neighborhood News Bureau” Project

    California Endowment Endorses “Neighborhood News Bureau” Project

    Joining many other local organizations, the California Endowment supports the NNB project. In a letter from Mary Lou Fulton and Christine Tien, Program managers, they expressed the following assessment. “Access Sacramento’s Neighborhood News Bureau concept is at the vanguard of a new wave of local journalism initiatives that involve collaboration among residents, community organizations, new [...]

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  • “Neigborhood News Bureaus” – Florin Creek Community Recreation Center

    “Neigborhood News Bureaus” – Florin Creek Community Recreation Center

    “Neigborhood News Bureaus” – Florin Creek Community Recreation Center By Amy Lawrence “Community members benefit from the use of this facility because it is accessible, affordable and available.” According to Courtney Black, Public Information Officer for Southgate Recreation and Park District, this is why members of the Florin Creek area benefit from the Florin Creek Community [...]

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  • “Neighborhood News Bureaus” Tipping Point Part 3 of 5.

    “Neighborhood News Bureaus” Tipping Point Part 3 of 5.

    “Neighborhood News Bureaus” Why Access Sacramento? Why Now? Part 3 of 5 By Ron Cooper Outlined in our past two newsletters, I have described (a) our five South Sacramento County partner organizations (profiled each week in this newsletter), (b) key understandings from the “Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell helping us to understand how significant change [...]

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