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The role of translation in collaborations (CJS2022 Day 1)

Joe Amditis45min

Stefanie Murray

00:04

And now I'm really excited to welcome on stage my colleague Adi, as you fill up a very treasured member of the Center for Cooperative Media staff who's going to moderate the next conversation, which is a really, really important one, we're going to take a look at the role that translation has played in collaboration here in Chicago. And I'll turn it over to oni to introduce our panelists and get the conversation going.

Oni Advincula

00:27

Hi, everyone, I was told would be so quiet. So let's get loud. Welcome to our panel discussion on the role of translation color in collaborations. Thank you for joining us. I'm only Advincula. I am Project Coordinator for ethnic and community media initiatives at the Center for Cooperative Media. And I will be your moderator for this session. Before we dive in, I will ask our wonderful panelists here to introduce themselves, and then we will go straight to the presentations on the collaborate, collaborate, collaborative translation project. Let's start with you Jesus Del Toro.

Jesús Del Toro

01:15

Thank you very much. I am Jesús Del Toro. La Raza is a Spanish newspaper here in Chicago, founded in 1970, we have more than 52 years serving Latinos Spanish speaking community in Chicago. Recently, we have started to do collaborations with several outlets to operate here in the city. And one very important component of that collaboration is the translations that allow us to include content originally in English, and to include that in our pages and websites. And also in some degree to allow English outlets to republish Spanish content original in Spanish, and then translated into English. However, we will speak about that and

Nissa Rhee

02:08

Yes, Hi, I'm Nissa Rhee. I'm the Executive Director and co founder of borderless magazine. We got our start after the Muslim travel ban is just a really quick response media project not meant to be the nonprofit news outlet it is today. But today, we publish a couple times a week on our website borderless mind that org every story is published in English and Spanish and our Spanish online audience is about 45% of our audience. And in addition to recording and publishing, we have two more programs, we have our Pathways Program, which is creating opportunities for emerging journalists from immigrant communities to learn journalism skills and work in the news outlets. And our immigration REPORTING LAB, which is through what we're doing a lot of this translation partnerships and collaborations where we're giving other newsrooms, the skills and the tools they need to better report and serve our immigrant communities in Chicago.

Jonathan Kealing

03:11

Hey, everyone,

Jonathan Kealing

03:12

I'm Jonathan Kealing. I'm the chief network officer at the Institute for nonprofit news. I oversee all of our editorial collaboration efforts in partnership with my perfect colleague, Bridget, who's in the audience here today [SPANISH TRANSLATOR SPEAKING]. So I work on our amplify News Project, which at various times has integrated translation into our efforts and as ambitions to keep doing that. So I'm excited to be here to hear from a couple of experts and to add our perspective on how we can do this in a way that is grounded in community and equitable and uses translation as a place to start not a place to stop.

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