Fox News Latino is one of the earliest Latino-specific brands for a mainstream media conglomerate to come into existence, and it remains one of the most steadily-growing, while other Latino brands created by mainstream media have faltered. In an effort to expand its reach and content, Fox News Latino will begin adding more videos to its offerings.
CNN is shuttering its CNN Latino division, becoming the second mainstream media outlet to shutter its Latino-focused news subsidiary in as many months this year.
In the aftermath of "The Bachelor" Juan Pablo Galavis' anti-gay comment (in which he apologized for via Facebook) and the recent and controversial shutdown of NBC Latino, Latinos in media - and Latinos in general, who may feel as though the wind has been taken out of their sails are in need of a boost.
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Well the nominations for the 25th Annual GLAAD Media Awards Of 2014 may just be what we're looking for in the interim, especially considering the acknowledgement of Latinos in numerous categories -- there are 37 Spanish-language nominees, including "a stand-alone bid in the novella category for Univision's 'Amores Verdaderos,' which included the wedding of a gay couple."
NBC Latino, whose tagline read "The Voice of American Hispanics," quietly closed its doors last Friday. NBC announced the sudden closure of the Latino-centric site last November.
Last November, NBC announced it was going to shut down NBC Latino, the Latino-focused news site that only launched in the summer of 2012. Early in 2014, NBC quietly closed NBC Latino's offices, but Latino journalists and opinion writers have had many things to say about it.
Forty percent of the United States homeless populations are under the age of 18, and Hispanics make up 20 percent of the total homeless population. So, with approximately 640,000 homeless in a given year, that means around 51,200 Latino youths experience homelessness on a yearly basis.
Springtime, also known as camping season, may be some time away, but it's already on the minds of many, including Latino leaders who are involved with national parks and historic sites. Latinos, on average, don't utilized national parks, greatly due the fact that camping isn't a cultural practice.
