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The Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Hunter College) presents the authors of
The News Media in Puerto Rico: Journalism in Colonial Settings and in Times of Crises (Routledge, 2020),Federico Subervi-Vélez, Sandra Rodríguez-Cotto, and Jairo Lugo-Ocando. This event takes place via Zoom TODAY, May 12, 2021, at 6:00pm (EST). [See Zoom link below.]
There are many reasons why Puerto Rico, after more than 122 years, continues to be a colony of the United States. The island’s media system is one of the factors that most contributes to maintaining this relationship of dependence and subjugation. The book The News Media in Puerto Rico: Journalism in Colonial Settings and in Times of Crises, by Federico Subervi-Vélez, Sandra Rodríguez-Cotto and Jairo Lugo-Ocando documents this reality and exposes it with a variety of sources, including opinions offered by 60 prominent journalists from the Island regarding the challenges faced by the news media, their profession, and journalism ....

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