NAHJ at UNC-Chapel Hill fosters a Latinx community that prioritizes professional development, diversity and representation within journalism and media.
🧵 JOBS THREAD 🧵
If your newsroom (or adjacent media company) is hiring, please reply to this tweet. We’re collecting opportunities for an online job board for folks who were caught up in #GannettLayoffs.
Include city/ state and links pls.
RT to spread the word!
Calling all journalists!
Several media companies are laying off workers.
Please post a job opening on this thread.
This could be you next.
For those being laid off, we got your back.
#journalismjobs#CNNlayoffs#Gannett
Growing up in Clinton, NC, Nayeli Jaramillo-Plata ’24 often translated for her Mexican immigrant parents. As a #UNCHussman student, she's still a storyteller navigating two cultures. @uncnahj, where she's VP, helps her and other aspiring #Latinx journalists with the journey.
Please consider donating money and/or items to one or both of these efforts, and feel free to share more orgs with me.
I'll also retweet and share orgs that are coordinating disaster relief in the DR and the Turks and Caicos as I find them. Please help the islands.
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Brigada Solidaria del Oeste is another community-run nonprofit that's been helping people since Hurricane Maria.
More info in the photos attached on how to donate to their PayPal, as well as to send non-perishable items to Puerto Rico:
There are also various monetary donations you can make to help the community in Uvalde.
Here are verified GoFundMe fundraisers put together by family members of the victims. https://t.co/0DNqbzqTQy
The UNC-Chapel Hill chapter of NAHJ stands with the Uvalde community.
“These deaths are particularly scarring for Latinx students – ourselves — who understand what is it like to feel unsafe in classrooms, meant to instead serve as spaces aimed to learn.”