Goals

• An opportunity to increase their background and demystify the complexities of one of the most crucial issues facing the nation, immigration policy and its related issues.
• A break from the pressure of daily deadlines to meet with experts in the immigration field from around the country.
• An opportunity to meet other journalists who are facing the same issue in their newsrooms and in their communities.
• An opportunity to meet informally with those on the frontlines of the immigration policy issue: the community, the experts, the policymakers, and the migrants.

• December 6, 2007
  Pew Hispanic Center
  PEW Hispanic Center Releases Report on Hispanics and the 2008 Election

The Learning Institute for Working Journalists is a comprehensive four-day program to offer 10 journalists to meet and talk with those that are on the frontlines of a controversy that has no easy answers. Since the 2000 U.S. Census, studies are showing dramatic increases in migration in various parts of the country that have typically not seen immigration as a priority. There is pressure on U.S. journalists to effectively cover this issue; and many times, there is no one reporter assigned to this beat. In border states such as Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Florida and California, border or immigration beats were added during the last two decades. Writers covering traditional beats such as enforcement, health care, and business are also finding immigration an issue.

The Center for Media, Democracy & Policy, now a model for future McCormick Foundation institutes, will remain at the lead in offering more topics for the national media to consider that are important to the Latino community. The Center for MDP will propose at least one LIWJ a year. The effect of these projects reaches millions of readers through the stories written by LIWJ fellows nationwide.

• Program Agenda
• Application