Table of Contents

NAHJ Mission Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Why NAHJ was Needed , and Why We Exist Today. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
President’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

NAHJ in 2007
An Executive Summary of 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
NAHJ’s Parity Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Campaign for Parity Donors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
NAHJ and Media Advocacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Scholarships and Educational Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
NAHJ celebrates its 25th Annual Convention in San Jose, Calif . . . . . . . 13
NAHJ History Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
In other 2007 NAHJ news. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2007 Journalism and ñ Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Local chapters grow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Thanks to our 2007 Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Accountant’s Compilation Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
NAHJ Assets and Liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
NAHJ Statement of Revenues and Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
NAHJ Adjustments to Financial Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
NAHJ Board of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
NAHJ Staff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
 NAHJ’s Mission Statement

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) is dedicated to the

recognition and professional advancement of Hispanics in the news industry.
Established in 1984, NAHJ created a national voice and unified vision for all
Hispanic journalists.

NAHJ is governed by a 17-member board of directors, including executive officers

and regional directors. The regional directors represent geographic areas of the
United States and the Caribbean. The national office is inside the National Press
Building in Washington, D.C.

There are more than 2,100 NAHJ members, including 141 lifetime members. We
are working journalists, journalism students, other media-related professionals and
journalism educators.

The goals of the association are:

• To organize and provide mutual support for Hispanics involved in the

gathering or dissemination of news.
• To encourage and support the study and practice of journalism and
communications by Hispanics.
• To foster and promote a fair treatment of Hispanics by the media.
• To further the employment and career development of Hispanics in the
media.
• To foster a greater understanding of Hispanic media professionals'
special cultural identity, interests, and concerns.•

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Why NAHJ was Needed, and Why We Exist Today
It has been four decades since social unrest resulted in
riots by blacks and Hispanics in cities across the
country in the summer of 1967. The Kerner
commission, appointed by President Lyndon Johnson
to investigate the root causes of the violence, criticized
the media’s coverage of the riots and found that our
nation’s all-white newsrooms contributed to the
“white-black schism” in the country.
It was a wake-up call for the news media. The
commission called for increased representation of
minority journalists in our nation’s newsrooms. In
the 1970s, the print and broadcast industries began
measuring the movement toward diversifying
newsrooms. But progress has been slow.
Today, more than 40 years after the Kerner
commission’s findings, Latinos and people of color
remain underrepresented in newsrooms by alarming
margins. While one in three people in the United
States is a person of color — African American,
Asian American, Hispanic, Native American, or some
combination thereof — journalists of color make up
just 13.62 percent of all newsroom employees in
daily newspapers, and 22.2 percent of those working
at local English-language television stations.
The Kerner commission warned that the lack of
minority voices in newsrooms and in news coverage
would have serious and negative consequences for
our society. The words of caution have added
urgency today, as our nation’s population becomes
more diverse, with Latinos now the largest ethnic
minority. By 2050, most Americans will be people
of color. And by early next century, half of all U.S.
residents will be of Hispanic descent.
This is why NAHJ’s mission remains critical to the
future of our nation. Founded in 1984, NAHJ seeks
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to increase representation of Latinos in newsrooms
and to improve coverage of the Latino community.
Not content with the status quo, NAHJ has created
bold new initiatives toward ensuring that the news
media accurately inform the public about the
country and the world we live in.
We get more young Latinos into the business by
offering more scholarships every year. We place
more Latinos in newsrooms with the innovative
Parity Project and with job placement and referral
services. We raise our collective voice against
distorted or unfair coverage to educate all about
who Latinos are and the roles we play as friends,
neighbors, competitors and leaders. In essence, we
position more Latinos to tell our stories and educate
more non-Latinos to include us in their words and
images as an integral part of the multicultural and
multilayered fabric of U.S. society.
Only then can the news media cease to be a
contributing factor to the racial, ethnic and social
unrest that continues today, and that fails to educate
those ill-informed people who commit violence against
Muslims raising families according to their faith,
against Mexicans waiting alongside the road for work,
or against gay men who simply go out for a drink.
Only then can the discrimination reinforced by
distorted and unbalanced news reports be diminished,
allowing all people to reach their potential and claim
their rightful place in American society.
NAHJ’s work is clearly needed as our multicultural
society becomes ever more complex. Our children
must learn to coexist and to foster the mutual
respect essential to a peaceful democracy. With
information, with images, we can—and often do—
shape minds and change lives. With NAHJ’s work,
we do so together. •
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 President’s Message

Dear NAHJ Members:

The crisis in the journalism industry continues, and the National

Association of Hispanic Journalists continues to represent the interest
of its members in a long-term fight for fair representation and fair
coverage of our communities.

Nothing has been easy, externally (in the world of journalism) or

internally (the workings of NAHJ as an association).

You don’t need this report to tell you of the dramatic shifts that have
taken place in the world of journalism. Between the disappearance of Knight-Ridder, the
privatization of Tribune Company, the continued efforts by some to put more and more news
outlets into the hands of fewer and fewer owners, and the almost daily reports of buyouts,
layoffs and cutbacks, journalists are losing their jobs at an unprecedented rate.

The board of directors of NAHJ has been as affected as the industry. Four board members
were laid off, and a fifth has decided to leave the industry. We are thus acutely aware of the
impact of layoffs and the threat it poses to NAHJ's long-term ability to accomplish its mission.

Our mission, that fight for fair representation in the newsroom and in the news product, is a
just mission. It is a mission that is not subject to the whims of stockholders, private owners or
government regulators. We know the challenges newsrooms face: declining newspaper
circulation, fractured audiences and an emerging news-delivery system no one quite knows how
to tap for profitability.

We urge the industry to think in the long-term as it makes short-term decisions. Cuts that
result in a decline in quality will do nothing except devalue the product, turn off the audience
and start the vicious cycle all over again.

During this time at NAHJ, we’ve met our own challenges. We've reduced the size of the
organization's staff, continued to streamline our operation and cut some programs we love
but could no longer afford, at least not in their present form (such as the Network Brownout
Report). In the meantime we’ve continued to fight for NAHJ and for our members, both
behind the scenes and publicly. We took our stand against further media consolidation to
Congress, stood up for members mistreated by police in Los Angeles and by their own
employers in Texas, and tangled with a national network over the best way to deliver news to
Spanish-speaking audiences in the Southwest. And through our Parity Project, we’ve
continued to show the industry that progress can be made even in these challenging times.

The work is far from done, of course. NAHJ is well-poised for an internal reorganization and
strategic planning that will even more efficiently address the needs of our mission. I extend
my thanks to the board of directors, the staff and the members of NAHJ for your support and
counsel over the last two years. Ours is still a noble mission in a noble profession. Journalism
will survive, and as long as it does, there will always be a need for NAHJ to fight for fairness.

Yours in service,
Rafael Olmeda

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E xe cu t i ve S u m m a r y: NA H J i n 2 0 0 7
Diversifying our nation’s newsrooms has long been
recognized as one of the great failings of the U.S.
news industry. The marginalization of Latinos and
communities of color in news coverage continues to
undermine the quality of information the American
public receives. NAHJ was conceptualized in 1982, and
officially formed in 1984, to address these historic
failings. The mission is increased diversity in the
newsroom and better coverage of Latino communities.
In 2007, NAHJ celebrated 25 years of taking the
lead toward that mission. The anniversary came at a
time when the entire media industry, especially
newspapers, struggled. Still, NAHJ themes for the
year emerged: stay relevant, speak the truth and
continue to be vocal about how changes in the
industry affect diversity.
A signature newsroom diversity project, plus myriad
other initiatives—including addresses to Congress
on the state of the media; educational and
professional training and other opportunities for
members such as scholarships and multimedia
workshops—all helped our members keep head
above water in these changing times, and fought
for more diverse and better coverage despite
industry cutbacks.
A snapshot of NAHJ business in 2007:
• The Parity Project was NAHJ’s key initiative that
helped buck the trend of Latino job losses in
2007. The program seeks to improve the number
of Latinos in newsrooms and ultimately improve
news coverage of all communities. The plan: form
long-term, holistic relationships between NAHJ,
media companies and local communities. Town-
hall meetings, newsroom diversity coverage
workshops, connections between reporters of
color and the newsrooms that need them—these
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are just some of the
moving parts of the Parity
Project. Is it working? Even
amid these times of deep
cutbacks, the answer is yes. The 26 partner news
companies in the program saw a collective 38
percent increase of Latinos in their newsrooms,
through the end of 2007.
• NAHJ also fought for better coverage in 2007 by
advocating for free and fair access of information
to all. The organization condemned the Federal
Communications Commission’s decision to allow
media companies to own newspapers and
television/radio stations in the country’s top 20
markets, a move we believed would lead to
increased media consolidation, the loss of more
journalism jobs and less diversity of voices telling
the news and serving the public interest. NAHJ
also spoke out in favor of a strong federal shield
law to protect journalists from revealing
confidential sources under certain conditions.
• Keeping in mind the next generation of
storytellers, in 2007 NAHJ awarded $100,000 in
new and $125,000 in continuing scholarships.
This brought the total to more than $1.4 million
to 525 students in 20 years of awarding
scholarships. The organization also partners with
media companies, colleges and foundations to
offer fellowships, summer training sessions and
many other educational opportunities.
• NAHJ celebrated its 25th Anniversary Convention
in San Jose, California in June, 2007. The
headline-making convention included remarks by
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
about turning off the Spanish-language television
that sparked energetic discussions, more
multimedia sessions than ever before, discussions
on community clashes with the LAPD, the effects
of raids and deportations on families and more.
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Parity Project
NA H J ’ s Pa r i t y Pr oje c t, a new
a ppr o a ch t o di ver s i t y
Launched in 2003, the Parity Project’s goals were
lofty from the beginning: To advance the number
of Latino journalists, especially in cities where
Latinos are underrepresented in newsrooms, and to
improve the quality of news coverage of the
Hispanic community.
The plan: Develop long-term, holistic partnerships
between NAHJ, individual media companies and
the community in cities with large and growing
Latino populations. The overall goal is to serve as a
model that the entire journalism industry can
emulate when it comes to improving newsroom
diversity and coverage of diverse communities.
Has it worked? Despite the industry’s more recent
challenges, the answer is yes.
The first partner on the project was the E.W.
Scripps Company. When the Parity Project launched
in 2003 at the company’s Rocky Mountain News in
Denver, the number of minority news professionals
jumped from 8.5 percent to 11.6 percent.
By the end of 2007, 26 companies had joined the
Parity Project. Partners include the Los Angeles Daily
News, WFLA-TV News in Tampa and The Virginian-
Pilot, where for the first time the diversity goal
became multicultural thanks to a partnership with
the Hampton Roads Black Media Professionals.
Despite deep cutbacks in the journalism industry
nationwide, the Parity Project is helping to buck the
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trend. By the end of
2007, Parity Project
newsrooms had,
collectively, 73 more
Latinos on staff than when
they respectively began working
with the project—dates ranging from April 2003 to
October 2007. During that time period, the partner
media companies hired 170 Latinos, almost as
many as the 194 Latinos on staff they had when
they started.
Even after factoring the 97 Latino staffers who left
the newsroom in that time period, the Parity Project
partners still had a collective net gain of 73 Latino
journalists by the end of last year—a 38 percent
increase.
The Latino and community at large around the
newsrooms is also feeling the effects. Besides
recruitment of more journalists of color, the program
involves training journalists on cultural issues,
convening town hall meetings, and establishing
community/staff advisory councils for long-term
collaboration. More than 1,600 people have taken
part in 34 town hall meetings. In some of the cities,
community groups have organized to approach
newspapers about what they find offensive in
coverage, and how to improve coverage.
“Our overriding goal is better journalism, not a jobs
program, or to hire less-qualified journalists,”
former NAHJ president Juan Gonzalez told Poynter
Online. “And because we knew the community,
and we knew the industry, we were the perfect
bridge. We have a trust no one else does.”
 Parity Project grows beyond Latino
community
While the original goal of the Parity Project was to
increase representation of Latinos in the news, the
scope took a multicultural approach for the first
time when NAHJ launched the program at The
Virginian-Pilot, on Oct. 30, 2007, with a town hall
meeting.
NAHJ partnered with the Hampton Roads Black
Media Professionals (HRBMP) to hold the town hall
between community leaders in The Pilot’s diverse
readership area and the newspaper’s leadership.
HRBMP is an affiliate of the National Association of
Black Journalists.
More than 100 people, including several area
college students, attended the town hall gathering.
“They want to see their faces and hear their voices,
especially in stories that don”t center on their race
or ethnicity,” The Virginian-Pilot columnist Marvin
Lake wrote about the own hall meeting. “They
want the paper to get to know them, as individuals
and culturally, so it can better reflect their lives and
concerns—something that doesn’t happen if the
media merely parachute in for ethnic festivals. They
want more “positive” news, to counterbalance a
perceived emphasis on crime-related coverage. And
they want more diverse op-ed voices.”
Lake said what the editors heard was largely no
surprise. Readers have expressed such views in calls,
e-mails and letters to the paper.
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“But the face-to-face session was an important and
necessary step toward demonstrating the paper’s
commitment to truly inclusive coverage,” Lake
wrote. “An opportunity for The Pilot to grow
multicultural sources, and, hopefully, begin to get
regular minority input.”
Parity Project Funding
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists in
2007 received a two-year $300,000 grant from
the McCormick Foundation for the Parity Project,
which strives to be an example for the journalism
industry on how to improve newsroom diversity
and coverage of all communities.
It started in May 2004, when The Robert R.
McCormick Tribune Foundation awarded NAHJ a $1
million, three-year grant for the Parity Project. Now
named the McCormick Foundation, it is the primary
sponsor of the program which works with selected
English-language media companies that serve large
Latino populations, but do not have a
representative percentage of Hispanic journalists in
their newsrooms.
“NAHJ‘s Parity Project is a winner. We are proud to
support a program with a proven track record of
improving diversity in newsrooms,” said Clark Bell,
the foundation's Journalism Program Director.
“Parity has created new opportunities for Latino
journalists and helped enhance coverage of diverse
communities in news organizations that agree to
participate.”
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Campaign for Parity Donors
¡MUCHISIMAS GRACIAS! to all our Campaign Supporters who have committed to our 5-year, $12.6 million
Campaign for Parity which began in 2003.
Above-the-Fold Circle Presidents’s Club
($500,000+) ($1,000 - $4,999)
McCormick Foundation Kathy Aaronson, The Sales Athlete
Vicki Adame, United Farm Workers
Headliner Circle Elizabeth Aguilera, The Denver Post
($250,000 - $499,999) Javier Aldape, E.W. Scripps Company
General Motors Claudio Alvarez Dunn, Primera Hora (Puerto Rico)
State Farm Insurance Cecilia Alvear, NBC Network News
Alfredo Araiza, Arizona Daily Star
Prime Timer Circle Rogelio Aranda, The Charlotte Observer
($100,000 - $249,999) Rose Arce, CNN
Gustavo Arroyo, California State Senate
Anheuser-Busch Jim Avila, ABC News
Bloomberg
Nancy Baca
CNN Gilbert Bailón, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ESPN
Margarita Bauza, Detroit Free Press
Ford Foundation Geraldine Berrios, Los Angeles Daily News
Freddie Mac
Mary Kay Blake, The Freedom Forum
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Frank Blethen, The Seattle Times
Knight Ridder
Ray Bradford, American Federation of Television
NBC Universal Telemundo and Radio Artists
The Coca-Cola Company
Ybeth Bruzual, Central Florida News 13 -
The McClatchy Company Telemundo
Toyota Motor Sales, USA. Inc.
Romeo Cantu, KGBT-TV (Harlingen, TX)
Univision Alfredo Carbajal-Madrid, Al Día (Dallas)
Jose Carreño, El Universal (Mexico City)
Publishers’ Club Dora Casanova de Toro, La Prensa
($50,000 - $99,999)
(Longwood, Florida)
AARP Nelson Castillo, Ivener & Fullmer, LLP
BELO David Cazares, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
CBS News Sergio Chapa, KGBT-TV (Rio Grande Valley,Tx)
DaimlerChrysler Gary Clark, The Denver Post
FedEx Angela Clemmons, The Denver Post
Ford Motor Company Yamila Constantino-Méndez, Bloomberg
Gannett Foundation Peter Copeland, Scripps Media Center
Geraldo Rivera, Fox News Channel Alfredo Corchado, The Dallas Morning News
Harrah’s Entertainment Christopher Crommett, CNN en Español
Hearst Newspapers Luis Cruz, KVBC-TV (Las Vegas)
Microsoft Carolyn Curiel, The New York Times
Nielsen Media Research George de Lama, Chicago Tribune
The New York Times Manuel De La Rosa, KIII-TV (Corpus Christi, TX)
Tribune/Sun-Sentinel/el Sentinel Araceli De Leon, KWHY-TV (Glendale, CA)
U.S. Army Frank del Olmo
Walt Disney Sam Diaz, SutherlandGold Group
Celeste Diaz Ferraro, Puerto Rico Federal Affairs
Executives’ Club Administration
($25,000 - $49,999) Charles Ericksen, Hispanic Link News Service
Victor Escobedo, Cortazar (Fairfield, CA)
Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation
Cathleen Farrell, Page One Media
Producers’ Circle Michele Fazekas, NBC
($10,000 - $24,999) Luis Alberto Ferre Rangel, El Nuevo Día
Gloria Campos Brown, WFAA-TV (Dallas, TX) (Puerto Rico)
Angelo Figueroa, TuCiudad (Port Orange, Florida)
Juan D. Gonzalez, New York Daily News
Veronica Flores, San Antonio Express-News
John Quiñones, ABC News Prime Time Juan Forero, National Public Radio
Maria Elena Salinas, Univision (Miami, FL)
Diana Fuentes, Laredo Morning Times
Tania Fuentez, The Associated Press
Anchors’ Circle Ernie Garcia, The Journal News
($5,000 - $9,999)
Veronica Garcia, Los Angeles Times
Lou Dobbs, CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight Eldra Gillman, CBS Corporation
Vince Gonzales Frank Gómez, Educational Testing Service
Alberto Ibargüen, The Miami Herald Raymond Gomez, KGNS-TV (Laredo, TX)
Arthur O. Sulzberger, The New York Times Joe Grimm, Detroit Free Press
Elizabeth Zavala, Fort Worth Star Telegram Liza Gross, The Miami Herald
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Hernan Guaracao-Calderon, Al Día (Philadelphia)
Felix Gutierrez, USC Annenberg School of
Journalism
Joanna Hernandez, The New York Times Regional
Media Group
Jodi Hernandez, KNTV/NBC 11 (San Jose, CA)
Robert Hernandez, The Seattle Times
Jorge Hidalgo, Telemundo
Jonathan Higuera, Arizona State University
Cronkite School of Journalism
Marina Hinestrosa
Claudia Hinojosa, KXTX Telemundo 39 (Dallas)
Mark Hinojosa, Chicago Tribune
Maite Junco, New York Daily News
Elio Leturia, Columbia College Chicago
Michael Limón, Salt Lake Tribune
Jacqueline Llamas Espinoza, KWHY-KVEA
Telemundo (Los Angeles)
Anna Lopez, The National GEM Consortium
Delton Lowery, The Fresno Bee
Ruben Luna, The Detroit News
Lavonne Luquis
Edna Málaga, KSWT-TV CBS 13 (Yuma, AZ)
Tony Marcano, National Public Radio
Regina Medina, Philadelphia Daily News
Mekahlo Medina, KNBC-TV NBC 4 (Los Angeles)
Ruth Merino, El Nuevo Día (Puerto Rico)
Oralia Michel, OMAGEN Inc. Marketing & Public
Relations
Walter Middlebrook, The Detroit News
Steve Montiel, Institute for Justice and Journalism
Antonio Mora, WFOR-TV (Miami)
Frank Moraga, Ventura County Star/Mi Estrella
Ibra Morales, Telemundo Station Group
Rosa Morales, Michigan State University School of
Journalism
Sylvia Moreno, The Washington Post
Mireya Navarro, The New York Times
Edna Negrón, The Ramapo College of New Jersey
Rafael Olmeda, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Larry Olmstead, Leading Edge Associates
Ralph Ortega, Star-Ledger
Edgar Ortega-Barrales, Bloomberg News
Maria Padilla
Minerva Perez, Minerva Perez Media LLC
O. Ricardo Pimentel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Gary Piña, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
David Plazas, The News-Press (Ft. Myers, FL)
Fernando Quintero, Orlando Sentinel
Max Ramirez, Max Ramirez Photography
George Ramos
Eli Reyes, Newsday
Diego Ribadeneira, The New York Times
Denice Rios
Robert Rivard, San Antonio Express-News
Elaine Rivera, WNYC Radio
Frances Robles, The Miami Herald
Cindy Rodriguez, The Detroit News
Rick Rodriguez, Arizona State University
Iván Román, National Association of Hispanic
Journalists
Rossana Rosado, el diario/LA PRENSA
Albor Ruiz, New York Daily News
Inez Russell, The New Mexican
Michele Salcedo, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Nancy San Martin, The Miami Herald
Evelyn Santa Cruz-Tipacti, PR Newswire
Roberto Santiago, The Miami Herald
Fernanda Santos, The New York Times
Clemson Smith Muñiz, Smith Muñiz
Productions, Inc.
Dianne Solís, Dallas Morning News
Sheila Solomon, Chicago Tribune
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NAHJ in 2007 remained a strong voice for
better news coverage and media access.
Efforts ranged from writing a letter in favor
of a strong federal shield law to House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to calling on network
news companies to improve their racial and
ethnic newsroom make ups.
Some 2007 media efforts include:
• NAHJ called on Congress to once again reverse the
decision by the Federal Communications
Commission to allow media companies to own
newspapers and television/radio stations in the
country’s top 20 markets, a move that relaxed the
30-year-old ban on newspaper-broadcast cross
ownership. The FCC’s move, NAHJ argued, opens
the door to increased media consolidation, the loss
of more journalism jobs, and less diversity of voices
telling the news and serving the public interest.
• NAHJ also reiterates its position that the media
ownership rules should not be changed until an
independent task force examines the impact of
media consolidation on minority broadcast
ownership and recommends ways to reverse
that decline.
“The system was already weighted against
minority ownership,” said NAHJ President Rafael
Olmeda. "This decision is going to make it more
difficult than ever for people of color to enter into
one of America’s most exclusive clubs.”
• Past NAHJ President Juan Gonzalez testified on
Capitol Hill against further media consolidation
Scholarships and Educational Programs
NAHJ continued to financially support and
mentor the next generations of journalists,
who promise to enter a multimedia age of
storytelling better prepared.
Scholarships
• The 18th Annual National Association of
Hispanic Journalists’ Scholarship Banquet was
held in New York City on March 1. This year we
awarded $100,000 in new and $125,000 in
continuing scholarships, totaling more than
$1.4million to 525 students in the 20 years
since NAHJ began awarding scholarships.
The 2007 banquet also raised more than
$170,000, which benefits NAHJ’s Rubén Salazar
Scholarship Fund and Educational Programs.
The scholarship fund is named in honor of
journalist Rubén Salazar who was killed in 1970
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Alicia Sotomayor
Ernest Sotomayor, Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism
Rafael Suarez, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
John Temple, Rocky Mountain News
Mercedes Torres, CNN Larry King Live
George Vazquez
Ricardo Vazquez, University of California
until the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) addresses how to increase minority
broadcast ownership. He spoke about how further
media consolidation would hurt journalism.
Gonzalez addressed the House Subcommittee on
Telecommunications and the Internet, which held
the FCC oversight hearing on minority media
ownership. Gonzalez’s full testimony is available
at: http://energycommerce.house.gov/ cmte_mtgs/
110-ti-hrg.120507.Gonzalez-testimony.pdf
With already shockingly low levels of minority
ownership of media, compared to how people of
color comprise 35 percent of the U.S. population,
Gonzalez presented a case for how further media
consolidation would worsen opportunities for
diverse ownership of television and radio stations,
and newspapers.
Gonzalez said: “Some might ask why we as
journalists place so much emphasis on the racial and
ethnic composition of media owners. It’s simple.
Direct experience has shown us that ownership
matters when it comes to diversity in newsroom
employment and, more importantly, when it comes
to a diversity of voices and meeting the news and
information needs of minority communities.”
• NAHJ joined the National Association of Black
Journalists in condemning radio broadcaster Don
Imus for his offensive remarks made April 4
about the Rutgers women’s basketball team,
calling for his dismissal.
while covering the Chicano Anti-Vietnam War
Moratorium in East Los Angeles. Salazar was a
columnist for the Los Angeles Times and the news
director for the Spanish-language television
station KMEX at the time of his death.
Many in the 2007 class of scholarship recipients—
who total 525 aspiring journalists since 1987—
struggle daily through personal hardship to forge
ahead with their commitment to journalism.
The 2007 scholarship winners included students
who slept on crowded floors with other immigrants
or in church attics when times got tough, and who
worked part-time or for free in television
newsrooms while putting themselves through
school. They included those who worked as nannies
or in agricultural fields, who quit college to join the
Marines after 9/11, and who fought to establish
Spanish-language newspapers in their local Latino
communities or their majority white college campus.
Verónica Villafañe
Roberto Vizcón, GENTV (Miami)
Xochitl Yañez, State Farm Insurance
Jeorge Zarazua, San Antonio Express-News
AMIGOS – Thank you to all of our Amigos
(Up to $1,000)
This list may not be all-inclusive.
• NAHJ called on Congress in favor of HR 2102,
The Free Flow of Information Act, which would
create a qualified federal shield law, protecting
journalists from revealing confidential sources
under certain conditions.
• NAHJ expressed disappointment with the lack of
progress made toward achieving diversity in the
nation’s newsrooms. As pointed out in the 2007
newsroom census released March 27 by the
American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE),
minority representation in newsrooms slipped by
0.25 percent, to 13.62 percent. The percentage
of Latino journalists dropped from 4.51 percent
to 4.41 percent.
“Our industry is in the midst of rapid change, but
one thing remains the same,” said NAHJ President
Rafael Olmeda. “Latinos continue to be severely
underrepresented in the newsroom workforce.”
In 2007, for the first time, ASNE’s census included
journalists working full-time online, an addition that
makes it appear in the survey that newsrooms
added nearly 2,000 jobs. Including online journalists
helped the numbers for minorities, who make up 16
percent of that sector, according to the survey.
Without including online journalists, the picture for
minority hiring and retention is even more bleak.
• NAHJ continued to call on newsrooms to use
appropriate terms when it comes to immigration
coverage. The use of “illegals” as a noun, for
example, dehumanizes people and further
marginalizes Latino news coverage.
NAHJ was able to offer some of these scholarships
in 2007 thanks to the generous personal
donations from María Elena Salinas, co-anchor
of Noticiero Univisión and syndicated columnist,
Geraldo Rivera, senior correspondent for Fox
News Channel, and grants from the Samuel
Newhouse Foundation, the Ford Motor
Company, CNN, Univisión and The
Washington Post.
Since the association established its scholarship
and educational programs in 1987, NAHJ has
provided financial assistance and/or training at its
annual conventions to more than 1,000 students.
To join the growing list of more than 300
individual supporters of NAHJ’s educational,
professional development and advocacy programs,
please go to www.nahj.org/supportnahj/
25Fund/ 25fund.shtml
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18th Annual Scholarship Banquet
Keynote Speaker Christiane Amanpour
Amanpour, chief
international
correspondent for CNN,
explained that the turmoil
that ensued from the 1979
Islamic revolution in her
native country of Iran was
a call to her conscience.
“For me that was a
turning point, and I quickly
decided to turn a sense of
Educational opportunities
NAHJ and the National Association of Hispanic
Publications Foundation (NAHP Foundation) kicked
off the second year of its successful joint internship
program to support Latino journalism students
interested in careers at Hispanic or Spanish-language
media publications. Five students were selected to
be in the second class of the internship program in
Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2007. The
internships are sponsored by Ford Motor Company
Fund, the philanthropic arm of Ford Motor
Company.
Spanish-language publications often struggle with
finding staff or contributors who not only can write
in Spanish, but who know the local community,
know how the U.S. society, economy and political
systems work, and who are well versed in the
practices and resources available when doing U.S.-
style journalism.
“Half of our student interns engaged in this program
were hired by our partner publications last year,” said
Eddie Escobedo, Chairman of the Board of the NAHP
Foundation. “Ford Motor Company Fund’s support
for this outreach program is achieving its goals of
placing aspiring Hispanic journalists in new career
positions, improving our Hispanic publications with
good new writers and better informing our
community with vibrant new reporters.”
• The New York Times Student Journalism Institute,
an inaugural program with NAHJ, was held in
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loss, and a sense of failure really, into my driving
force,” Amanpour told the 320 banquet attendees.
In her keynote address, the veteran journalist who
has covered wars and conflicts in places such as the
Balkans and Iraq stressed the power of journalism
and its ability to effect change.
“I think this is an incredibly noble profession. When
it’s done well, it’s an incredibly important profession
and it’s a profession that can truly, truly make a
difference,” Amanpour said.
January at Florida International University in Miami.
The Institute is a competitive, 10-day, hands-on
journalism residency program offered to aspiring
reporters, editors and photographers who are
members of the NAHJ. Students got to sharpen
their writing, reporting, editing and photography
skills while covering real stories in the Miami area
and working under actual newsroom deadlines.
They learned from professional journalists from The
New York Times, The Boston Globe and the Times
Company's Regional Media Group.
• NBC Universal and NAHJ offered two students the
opportunity to become NBC fellows in New York
City. Fellows had the opportunity to join one of the
following NBC News programs for the summer of
2007: the Today Show, Nightly News with Brian
Williams, Dateline or one of NBC's local stations.
Each student was given a stipend of $500 a week.
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2007 Convention - NAHJ@25
The 25th annual convention of the National
Association of Hispanic Journalists produced
headlines around the country, offered attendees the
skills essential for journalists of the future, and
celebrated a quarter century of accomplishments by
Latino journalists. Some 1,300 journalists participated
in San Jose, California from June 13-16, 2007.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made
news right at the start of the four-day event when
during the opening plenary, responding to a question
about how to help struggling students, he said they
should “turn off the Spanish television set. It’s that
simple. You’ve got to learn English.” That remark set
off a debate with NAHJ taking the position that the
governor made a good point – poorly.
The highlights for the 2007 convention, themed
“NAHJ@25: Building Today, Shaping Tomorrow”,
also included lively discussions about immigration;
news coverage in Latin America; Ken Burns’
omission of Latinos in his WWII documentary; the
surge in hate speech and violence against Latinos tied
to immigration; and the clash between journalists and
officers of the Los Angeles Police Department at an
immigration rally May 1st. Confronted by journalists
and immigration leaders who were at the rally, Los
Angeles Police Chief William Bratton did not offer
excuses for the officers’ behavior to the room packed
with journalists and acknowledged that a lot “went
wrong.”
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Just days before a
compromise on
immigration reform failed in
the U.S. Senate, U.S. Secretary
of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez flew
to San Jose to stress to the hundreds of journalists
at the convention that the administration’s proposed
fixes to the current immigration system are essential
to maintain the country’s position in a global
economy.
Besides hearing from some of the day’s top
newsmakers, convention registrants learned about
everything from managing in constantly changing
newsrooms to improving your voice and on-air
presentation to financial literacy for journalists. But
among the biggest hits were the 16 multimedia
training sessions sprinkled throughout the
convention where latecomers sitting on the floor
made standing-room-only impossible, and even more
crammed the doorways to watch and participate.
“I wasn't surprised at all by the popularity of the
multimedia/online workshop sessions, because our
industry is in the midst of an incredible
transformation. I was heartened at the enthusiasm
the participants showed—everyone was excited to
learn about how to apply and adapt new
technologies to journalism,” said workshop presenter
Amy Webb, President, Webbmedia Group, LLC., a
digital media consulting/ training firm.
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Robert Lopez, an investigative reporter at The Los
Angeles Times, was one of those enthusiastic
participants. “The strongest message that I took
away is that you shouldn’t wait for somebody at
your news organization to teach you these skills,
you should try to develop the skills on your own,’’
said Lopez. “It was a really learning convention for
me, but a great social time too.”
We had fun at the San Jose
Convention, too
NAHJ officially kicked off the convention with the
opening plenary followed by the opening reception
at the San Jose Museum of Art with cocktails, music
and dancing to the funk, salsa, cumbia, norteña and
blues of Juan Escovedo and Tortilla Soup. Other
special events included a screening of “The Hungry
Woman/La Mujer Hambrienta,” a film set in a
migrant camp inspired by a true story, followed by a
hot after party. And at the Noche de Fiesta @ The
Mexican Heritage Plaza, hundreds of people nibbled
on Mexican food and some mole tasting, sipped a
lot during the tequila and wine tasting, howled with
laughter when the comedians took the stage,
including headliner Bill Santiago, and sang along
during the mariachi karaoke, when attendees belted
out rancheras backed by Mariachi Azteca.
More than 100 recruiters attended the convention
to meet with job candidates.
This year’s convention experienced an
unprecedented $805,000 in support from sponsors.
By making it a competition among local television
and media companies, the third annual NAHJ Golf
Tournament netted $13,500, the most ever, which
goes to benefit the association’s Ruben Salazar
Scholarship Fund.
Fifty-five students also benefited from the
convention’s focus on multimedia skills. For the first
time, in addition to producing their respective
publications or radio and television programs, the
online, print, TV and radio students worked across
media platforms in a lesson on convergence that
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has earned high praise from many of the
professionals there. To view the students’ work, go
to http://joomla.latinoreporterdigital.org/
“When news organizations say there are not
enough talented Latino applicants out there I will
think back to this convention and know they are
wrong,” said CNN senior producer Rose Arce,
adding that she returned to her newsroom “hyper
focused on quality.”
A reunion of NAHJ founders and
alumni at the Convention
This silver anniversary year in San Jose, the annual
convention “reunion” took on a new meaning with
a reception for founders and "alumni" of NAHJ
student projects and scholarships.
The event served as a springboard for the proposed
NAHJ alumni association and gave NAHJ President
Rafael Olmeda the opportunity to thank the men
and women who met in 1982 in San Diego to
establish the national organization that is now more
than 2,100 members strong.
"I participated in every convention since the
inaugural one in ‘82 when my hair was brown. The
increasing depth of the new breed both in expertise
and commitment is wonderfully scary. But I still
believe us old timers were better drinkers," said
Charlie Ericksen, one of NAHJ’s founders.
NAHJ Hall of Fame, now an honor
roll of 19, grows at the Convention
NAHJ paused the final night of the convention to
recognize its 2007 Hall of Fame Honorees Cecilia
Alvear, Rigo Chacón and George Ramos during
the 25th Anniversary Celebration Gala.
“That first conference was unique and exciting to be a
part of,” Ramos, a former Los Angeles Times reporter
Ramos and founding member of NAHJ, told the Latino
Reporter at the convention. “We had Puertorriqueños
from New York, Cubanos from Miami, Tejanos from
Texas and Chicanos from California all in one place. It
made sense to start a national group.”
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In her acceptance speech at the convention, Alvear
said: “What I cannot fail but notice at this point is
that Rigo, George and I, by entering journalism
when we did in fact, ended the “apartheid” that
existed in the media. There were no people with
names like Chacón, Ramos or Alvear then. There are
now. We have come a long way but still have a long
way to go.’’
A 25th Anniversary Fund to keep
NAHJ strong
To commemorate its 25th Anniversary, NAHJ in 2007
created the 25th Anniversary Fund seeking to raise
$250,000 from members and supporters by December
31, 2008. The money will be used for scholarships,
student and mid-career training, the fight toward
better coverage for Latinos and NAHJ’s Parity Project.
These are just some of the many projects NAHJ is
working on to make our news industry stronger and
more representative of all people.
Each person who donates $2,500 or more will be
recognized as a 25th Anniversary Angel. In addition,
they will automatically become a Lifetime Member
of NAHJ. The first 25 people who donated $2,500
or more were also offered a complimentary
registration to the 2008 UNITY: Journalists of Color
Convention in Chicago, July 23-27, 2008.
NAHJ would like to thank the individuals who
stepped up to the challenge already and became
25th Anniversary Angels:
• Gloria Campos, News Anchor, WFAA-TV (Dallas)
• Christopher Crommett – Senior Vice President,
CNN en Español
• Vince Gonzales
• Jodi Hernandez, KNTV NBC 11 (San Jose, CA)
• Lavonne Luquis
• Rafael Olmeda, Early Online Editor, South Florida
Sun-Sentinel
• Minerva Perez, Minerva Perez Media LLC
• Diego Ribadeneira, Assistant Metro Editor, The
New York Times
• Elizabeth Zavala, Deputy City Editor, Fort Worth
Star Telegram
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25 Years
NAHJ History
Highlights
First National Hispanic Media
1982 Conference of journalists working in
both mainstream and Spanish-language news
operations takes place in San Diego. About 300
attend.
With a $50,000 grant from the Gannett
1984 Foundation, NAHJ files its articles of
incorporation, sets up an interim headquarters in Los
Angeles and becomes the country’s first nationwide
organization dedicated to Hispanic journalists.
1990 NAHJ holds its first solo convention for
journalists in San Francisco. It is called
the 8th annual convention. NAHJ’s first executive
director, Frank Newton, is recognized for his years
of service.
NAHJ releases the first “Network
1996 Brownout: The Portrayal of Latinos in
the Network” report. Findings show that of 12,000
stories on NBC, CBS and ABC’s television news
programs the previous year, only 121 — barely 1
percent — focused on Latinos or Latino issues.
NAHJ creates its Hall of Fame. Rubén
2000 Salazar, Sylvan Rodriguez and Elma
Barrera are the first inductees.
NAHJ launches the Parity Project at the
2003 Rocky Mountain News in Denver. The
number of minority news professionals there jumps
from 8.5 percent to 11.6 percent. By December, five
other newspapers join the program. The next year, the
Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation awards a $1
million grant to NAHJ to expand the Parity Project.
NAHJ sets up and funds its first
2006 multimedia lab at the convention to
train members in multimedia storytelling,
podcasting, audio and video feeds, and other skills
essential for journalists in the digital age.
NAHJ releases results of first ever magazine study,
which examined coverage of Latinos by Time,
Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report.
Findings: just 1.2 percent of stories in 2005 were
predominantly about Latinos.
NAHJ celebrates 25 years of working
2007 for better journalism.
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In Other 2007 NAHJ News
Awards
The 22nd Annual Noche de
Triunfos Journalism Awards Gala
was held on October 4, 2007 at
the Capital Hilton in Washington,
D.C.
NAHJ honored work submitted in
14 categories and also picked five
winners of the ñ Awards—the
association’s highest honors.
More than half of the winning
stories focused on immigrants,
while the others took on subjects
ranging from a documentary about
the effect California’s rural gangs
had on Latino families to a series of
columns about Latinos living in the
Deep South. Other work included
an investigation on once secret U.S.
plans to invade Mexico during
World War II, a woman’s nightmare
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of sexual abuse on both sides of
the border, and an exploration of
cross-border grassroots projects to
fight AIDS.
Immigration coverage, however,
was definitely the star. Some of the
winners at the National Association
of Hispanic Journalists’ 2007
Awards gala took the stage to
thank hard-working parents and
abuelitas, some of whom had
entered the United States illegally.
During this special evening, the
rejection and hatred often
expressed in the media against
them, their families and people
who look like them became a big
part of the evening.
Many of the two dozen winners
said the anti-immigrant and anti-
Latino
statements
too common
today inspired their
work being honored that evening,
and motivated them to do more
journalism to counter the hate and
increase understanding.
Of the 30 journalists recognized,
Rebecca Aguilar has emerged as
the most talked about winner since
her Oct. 15 suspension by KDFW-
TV Fox 4 in Dallas for a follow-up
interview of a 70-year-old man who
shot and killed two burglars in two
separate incidents.
Some bloggers applauded the
move after calling her interview an
“ambush,” while NAHJ criticized
the station for letting itself be
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 of Punto Fronterizo, an
Dianne Solis, a senior writer for The Dallas Morning News and the investigative mtelevision program
winner of the Frank del Olmo Print Journalist of the Year Award, based in San Diego and Baja
quoted Gary D. during her acceptance speech during the 22nd California, won for her show
Annual Noche de Triunfos gala. about cross-border collaboration
efforts to curb the spread of AIDS.
“He never gave me his surname,” said Solis, addressing a crowd
of nearly 275 at the Capital Hilton Oct. 4, 2007. “He just wrote
This year’s $250 cash prizes for
me a very angry email. I’ll read you a small portion of it: ‘It’s time
each were doubled to $500
to collect the illegal immigrants and return them to their own
thanks to Kenn Altine, Director
country. I could care less about these cockroaches.’ ”
of Editorial Professional
To Gary D., Solis said: “you inspired me to work harder, to think Development for Hearst
tougher and to very simply write.” Newspapers, who was moved that
evening to make the donation.

unduly influenced by certain
community interests and has called
for her reinstatement for the sake
of good journalism.
The Emmy-award winning
journalist was named Texas
Reporter of the Year two years ago
by the Associated Press. In
accepting the ñ Award for
Broadcast Journalist of the Year,
Aguilar said: “I don’t want to start
crying. Yeah, I won a lot of awards
but this one means a lot. I’m going
to be 50 years old this year. I’ve
seen a lot of women come and go.
We watch the network and we still
don’t have enough of us.”
Fox News Channel’s Geraldo
Rivera urged his colleagues to
maintain high journalistic
standards, and not to blindly
connect illegal immigration to
spikes in crime, as some in the
media have done recently. “Don’t
let that linkage be made if
unproven. Don’t let the traditional
rules of journalism be abrogated
…have the courage to stand up,”
Rivera said to applause.
Along those same lines, the
audience also heard from
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez,
winner of the Leadership Award.
She made headlines for helping
lead a grassroots campaign for
meaningful inclusion of Latinos in “We need to recognize good
Ken Burns’ documentary on work in this industry because it’s
World War II, which aired on PBS so vital,” Altine said.
last month.
“We shouldn’t have to, on a daily NAHJ’s Local Chapters
basis, open a newspaper and see Grew in 2007
another insult, or watch a
NAHJ is slowly shifting from a
television broadcast and be
regional to a more local, chapter-
insulted again. That shouldn’t be
based association. While the NAHJ
part of our daily lives as Latinos,
regions encompass several states,
but it is,’’ said Rivas–Rodriguez,
the new chapters represent just
an associate professor at the
one city or one state.
University of Texas at Austin and
a founding member of NAHJ.
By the end of 2007, there were
12 professional chapters: Atlanta,
Once part of NAHJ’s annual
Charlotte, Denver, Network of
convention, the Noche de
Hispanic Communicators
Triunfos Journalism Awards gala
(Dallas/Fort Worth), New Mexico,
has become the organization’s
North Carolina Triangle/Raleigh,
signature event in Washington,
Northern New Jersey, Oklahoma,
D.C. during Hispanic Heritage
Orlando/Central Florida, Rio
Month. Individual ticket sales
Grande Valley, Southwest Florida
increased over previous years
and Washington, DC.
thanks to interest from sister
Hispanic organizations and from
There were also at least 12 student
Washington-based journalists.
chapters, with others in the
process or forming. They include:
Another special award that
Brooklyn College, Florida
evening, the Guillermo Martínez-
International University, Lehman
Márquez Award for Latin
College, Northwestern University,
American Reporting, was declared
Syracuse University, Texas State
a tie. Esmeralda Bermudez of
University, University of Arizona,
The Oregonian was cited for her
University of California Los
fascinating story following a
Angeles, University of Illinois
deported family back to
Urbana-Champaign, University of
Guatemala, a homeland some of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
them don’t really know. Carmen
University of Puerto Rico,
Escobosa, producer and reporter
University of Texas at El Paso.

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Thank You to 2007 Sponsors

The following corporate partners sponsored the NAHJ Scholarship Banquet,

Convention and/or Journalism Awards Gala in 2007. Their support speaks volumes
about their commitment to our mission of increasing the presence and influence of
Latinos in U.S. newsrooms. ¡Muchísimas Gracias!

AARP Segunda Juventud Fox News Channel Pacific Gas and Electric Company
ABC News Freddie Mac People en Español
Amtrak Gannett Foundation PR Newswire
Anheuser-Busch Harrah's Entertainment Prudential Financial
Annie E. Casey Foundation HBO San Francisco Chronicle
Belo Hearst Newspapers San Jose Mercury News
Bloomberg News Heineken USA State Farm Insurance
Boyd Gaming Corporation Hewlett-Packard The California Wellness
CBS News KGO ABC 7 Foundation
Chrysler KNTV NBC 11 The E.W. Scripps Company
Cisco KPIX CBS 5 The McClatchy Company
CNN KSTS Telemundo 48 The New York Times
Coca-Cola North America KTVU Fox 2 The Philadelphia Inquirer and
Comcast MCM Daily News
Con Edison MGM Mirage The Star-Ledger
Continental Airlines Microsoft The Walt Disney Company
Cox Enterprises National Education Association The Washington Post
Dini Films International National Public Radio Toyota Motor Sales, USA Inc.
el diario/LA PRENSA NBC 4 Telemundo 47 U.S. Army
Empire Maintenance Services NBC Universal Univision Communications, Inc.
ESPN New York Daily News Verizon Communications
FedEx Newsday WABC-TV
First Rate Capital NY 1 Noticias Walt Disney World Resort
Ford Motor Company OnStar Western Union

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Accountants’ Compilation Report

Board of Directors
National Association of Hispanic Journalists

We have compiled the accompanying financial statements for the National

Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) as of December 31, 2007 in accordance
with Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services issued by the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

A compilation is limited to presenting in the form of financial statements

information that is the representation of management. We have not audited or
reviewed the accompanying financial statements and, accordingly, do not express an
opinion or any other form of assurance on them.

For interim reporting purposes only, management has elected to omit substantially
all of the disclosures and the statement of cash flows required by generally accepted accounting
principles. If the omitted disclosures and statement of cash flows were included in the financial
statements, they might influence the user's conclusions about NAHJ’s financial position, changes in net
assets, and cash flows. Accordingly, these financial statements are not designed for those who are not
informed about such matters.

We are not independent with respect to the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

October 31, 2008 HALT, BUZAS & POWELL, LTD.

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 NAHJ Balance Sheet
December 31, 2007

Assets

Current Assets

Wachovia Bank - Checking 80,422.11

Wachovia Bank - Money Market 52.27
Smith Barney - General Fund 32,268.30
Smith Barney- Scholarship Fund 154,845.54
Smith Barney - Endowment Fund 168,603.14
Smith Barney - Reserve Fund 72,422.18
Bank of America - Checking 5,935.52
Security Deposit 4,542.32
Prepaid Expenses 33,837.73
Accounts Receivable 179,734.60

Total Current Assets 732,663.71

Fixed Assets

Computer Equipment 28,796.57

Furniture & Fixtures 28,183.99
Computer Software 9,573.00
A/D Computer Equipment (22,246.80)
A/D Furniture & Equipment (22,001.54)
A/D Computer Software (9,209.83)

Total Fixed Assets 13,095.39

Total Assets 745,759.10

Liabilities & Fund Balance

Current Liabilities

Accounts Payable 16,027.26

Accrued Vacation 25,381.22
Accrued Expenses 8,513.00
Chapter Payables 21,945.61
Deferred Revenue 51,187.50

Total Current Liabilities 123,054.59

Fund Balance

Unrestricted Fund Balance 150,437.27

Temporarily Restricted Fund Balance 526,343.75
Restricted Fund Balance 114,924.04
Net Income (Loss) (169,000.55)

Total Fund Balance 622,704.51

Total Liabilities & Fund Balance 745,759.10

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NAHJ Statement of Revenue and Expenditures
For the Twelve Months Ending December 31, 2007

YTD Actual Yearly Budget Variance

01/07 - 12/07 01/07 - 12/07
Revenue
Membership Dues 44,257.50 43,200.00 (1,057.50)
Donations 107,642.96 218,000.00 110,357.04
Grants 220,250.00 237,500.00 17,250.00
Sponsorships 1,079,500.00 940,000.00 (139,500.00)
Program Revenue 449,809.70 570,000.00 120,190.30
Other Income 36,711.30 21,000.00 (15,711.30)
Total Revenue 1,938,171.46 2,029,700.00 91,528.54

Expenses
Salaries & Wages 510,421.99 583,500.00 73,078.01
Fringe Benefits 65,674.96 93,200.00 27,525.04
Office Rent & Maintenance 107,929.54 116,500.23 8,570.69
Accounting, Payroll & Auditing 106,614.31 84,000.00 (22,614.31)
Legal & Investment Management 3,015.42 8,000.00 5,384.58
Subscription, Publication & Fees 17,311.87 26,950.00 9,638.13
Audio & Visual Expenses 146,323.50 160,500.00 14,176.50
Convention & Meeting Expenses 497,783.56 439,200.00 (51,583.56)
Consultant Fees & Expenses 71,596.50 55,000.00 (16,596.50)
Charges, Interest & Penalties 18,574.41 33,900.00 15,325.59
Depreciation Expenses 9,172.86 0.00 (9,172.86)
Insurance 3,756.86 11,100.00 7,343.14
Equipment Rental & Maintenance 6,250.20 8,000.09 1,749.89
Office Supplies & Furniture 13,479.10 14,600.00 1,120.90
Telecommunications & Internet 46,997.18 34,500.00 (12,497.18)
Postage & Shipping 20,194.67 29,375.00 9,180.33
Printing & Design 66,003.48 74,500.00 8,496.52
Travel & Lodging 128,810.40 148,964.00 20,153.60
Scholarships, Awards & Stipends 219,721.92 197,450.00 (22,271.92)
Employer Tax Expense 41,132.58 45,507.02 4,674.44
Miscellaneous Expenses 6,406.70 2,379.00 (4,027.70)

Total Expenses 2,107,172.01 2,167,125.34 67,653.33

Net Income (Loss) (169,000.55) (145,125.34) 23,875.21

For the Twelve Months Ending December 31, 2007

Operating Fund Scholarship Endowment Total

Beginning Balance $152,256 $529,731 $109,716 $791,703

Net Income (Loss) $(128,825) $(42,992) $2,818 $(168,999)
Ending Balance $23,431 $486,739 $112,534 $622,704

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 N A H J Statement of Revenue and Expenditures
(with Adjustments) For the Twelve Months Ending December 31, 2007
National Association
of Hispanic Journalists
YTD Actual Yearly Budget Variance
01/07 - 12/07 01/07 - 12/07
Revenue
Membership Dues 44,257.50 43,200.00 (1,057.50)
Donations 107,642.96 218,000.00 110,357.04
Grants 220,250.00 237,500.00 17,250.00
Sponsorships 1,079,500.00 940,000.00 (139,500.00)
Program Revenue 449,809.70 570,000.00 120,190.30
Other Income 36,711.30 21,000.00 (15,711.30)
Total Revenue 1,938,171.46 2,029,700.00 91,528.54

Expenses
Salaries & Wages 510,421.99 583,500.00 73,078.01
Fringe Benefits 65,674.96 93,200.00 27,525.04
Office Rent & Maintenance 107,929.54 116,500.23 8,570.69
Accounting, Payroll & Auditing 106,614.31 84,000.00 (22,614.31)
Legal & Investment Management 3,015.42 8,000.00 4,984.58
Subscription, Publication & Fees 17,311.87 26,950.00 9,638.13
Audio & Visual Expenses 146,323.50 160,500.00 14,176.50
Convention & Meeting Expenses 497,783.56 439,200.00 (58,583.56)
Consultant Fees & Expenses 71,596.50 55,000.00 (16,596.50)
Charges, Interest & Penalties 18,574.41 33,900.00 15,325.59
Depreciation Expenses 9,172.86 0.00 (9,172.86)
Insurance 3,756.86 11,100.00 7,343.14
Equipment Rental & Maintenance 6,250.20 8,000.09 1,749.89
Office Supplies & Furniture 13,479.10 14,600.00 1,120.90
Telecommunications & Internet 46,997.18 34,500.00 (12,497.18)
Postage & Shipping 20,194.67 29,375.00 9,180.33
Printing & Design 66,003.48 74,500.00 8,496.52
Travel & Lodging 128,810.40 148,964.00 20,153.60
Scholarships, Awards & Stipends 219,721.92 197,450.00 (22,271.92)
Employer Tax Expense 41,132.58 45,507.20 4,374.62
Miscellaneous Expenses 6,406.70 2,379.00 (4,027.70)
Total Expenses 2,107,172.01 2,167,125.52 59,953.51

Net Income (Loss) (169,000.55) (137,425.52) 31,575.03

Adjustments:
Expenses paid by Scholarship Account Funds in 2007, but previously received and recorded as revenue in previous years:
Student/Mentor Lodging Student Programs
2007 Convention 32,400.00 32,400.00
Geraldo Rivera Scholarship 5,000.00 5,000.00
CNN Scholarships 101,400.00 105,000.00
Second payment of Newhouse Scholarships 10,000.00
Continuing payments of Wash Post scholarships 5,000.00
Total Adjustments 153,800.00 142,400.00

Net Income (Loss) after Adjustments** $(15,200.55) 4,974.48

**Information on these adjustments presented by association management to more clearly reflect the pattern of revenues and expenses
for 2007 and the end result for the year.

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NAHJ Board of Directors
PRESIDENT
Rafael Olmeda
Early Online Editor
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
VICE-PRESIDENT, BROADCAST
Manuel De La Rosa
Reporter
KIII-TV, Corpus Christi, TX
VICE-PRESIDENT, PRINT
Cindy Rodriguez
Freelance Writer
New York City
SECRETARY
Elizabeth Zavala
Deputy City Editor
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
FINANCIAL OFFICER
Diego Ribadeneira
Asst. Metro Editor
The New York Times
GENERAL AT-LARGE OFFICER
Gary Piña
News Editor/Page Designer
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
SPANISH AT-LARGE OFFICER
Claudio Alvarez-Dunn
Jefe de Redacción
Primera Hora, Guaynabo, PR
NAHJ Staff
Executive Director
Iván Román
Executive Assistant
Yaneth Guillen
Development Director
Azuree Salazar
Annual Report 2007
ONLINE AT-LARGE OFFICER REGION 5 DIRECTOR (Ark., La.,
Robert Hernandez Okla., Texas)
News Producer Gustavo Reveles Acosta
The Seattle Times Education Reporter
El Paso Times
REGION 1 DIRECTOR
(Puerto Rico, Mexico, Virgin Islands) REGION 6 DIRECTOR (Ill., Ind.,
José Enrique Maldonado Iowa, Kan., Mich., Minn., Miss.,
Editor Mo., Neb., N.D., Ohio, S.D., Wis.)
El Nuevo Día, San Juan, PR Brandon A. Benavides
News Producer
REGION 2 DIRECTOR (Conn., KSTP-TV/5 Eyewitness News,
Maine, Mass., N.H., N.Y., N.J., Saint Paul, MN
R.I., Vt.)
Hugo Balta REGION 7 DIRECTOR (Ariz., Colo.,
News Director Nev., N.M., Utah, Wyo.)
WNJU/Telemundo 47, Fort Lee, NJ Elizabeth Aguilera
Business Reporter
The Denver Post
REGION 3 DIRECTOR (Del., Ky.,
Md., Pa., Va., W.Va., D.C.) REGION 8 DIRECTOR (Alaska,
Regina Medina Calif., Hawaii, Idaho, Ore., Wash.)
Reporter Veronica Garcia
Philadelphia Daily News Copy Editor
Los Angeles Times
REGION 4 DIRECTOR (Ala., Fla.,
Ga., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn.) STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE
Roberto Santiago Aisha Al-Muslim
Senior Staff Writer Editor-in-Chief
The Miami Herald Meridian, “The Student Voice of
Lehman College,” Bronx, New
York
Parity Project Director Program Assistant
Kevin Olivas Virginia Galindo
Parity Project Associate Director Educational Programs Assistant
Michele Gonzalez Roshanna Charner
Membership and Chapter Manager
Claudia Araujo
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