Hume says "ethnic-wire" website adds new voices to New England media landscape

While traditional media organizations struggle with advertising and circulation losses, a steady beat is coming from another location -- ethnic media. And Ellen Hume is listening. She's the editor-in-chief and founder of the New England Ethnic News Wire (actually a website), which is aggregating stories and materials from the estimate 100 New England media outlets that serve ethnic and special-interest communities. Hume, who runs the Center on Media & Society at UMass Boston, is a former Wall Street Journal and public TV reporter and media scholar. She says the wire's mission is to elevate the visibility of ethnic media. The website -- in English -- has fresh articles weekly, some picked up from the ethnic media, and other original material. Watch Hume describe the project. /
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