🎉 We’re muy excited today to announce that Austin Vida was selected to receive funding from Press Forward, the nationwide movement strengthening communities through local news!
Austin Vida is among the newsrooms across the U.S. who were selected for a two-year grant to report on communities that have traditionally gone uncovered. A review panel of national foundation and journalism leaders saw how our reporting is making a difference in our comunidad and awarded us $100,000 in funding to keep going.
What does this mean? You can expect even more stories and programming amplifying our gente y mucho más! Here we go, familia! What would you like to see in Austin Vida?
Austin Vida presente en Los Angeles!
Gracias to NAHJ for featuring Austin Vida Editor & Publisher Nancy Flores as a speaker at the 40th anniversary of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists conference.
We're grateful that so many folks resonated with our mission of amplifying, informing, and celebrating the Latinidad of our local community. We're committed to culturally-competent news that centers the voices of nuestra gente.
Many thanks to Amanda Zamora who helped bring important programming to the conference as well as fellow panelists @thatashleyalvarado + @_alejandramatos - all mujeres poderosas blazing trails in journalism.
¡Sí se puede!
🏛️ East Austin Barrio Landmarks, a project by Preservation Austin, honors la cultura and historical significance of Austin’s Mexican American heritage. It highlights 25 landmarks across East Austin.
We recently stopped by three of these notable places for part 2 of our video series exploring these landmarks.
What's your favorite East Austin historical spot?
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📌 Austin Vida is a Latina-led news and culture outlet that amplifies, informs, and celebrates the Latinidad of our local community with coverage that centers the voices of nuestra gente.
Andrés Calixto served as our Spring 2024 Intern. Throughout his time with Austin Vida, he reported on important events in the Latino community. We sent him on many adventures to explore and create content for us.
Check out what he covered throughout the semester for Austin Vida in his day-in-the-semester reel. As his time with us comes to an end check out all his work in the link in comments.
Cheers to the next generation of Chicano journalists!
🏛️ East Austin Barrio Landmarks, a project by Preservation Austin, honors la cultura and historical significance of Austin’s Mexican American heritage. It highlights 25 landmarks across East Austin.
We recently stopped by three of these historic places.
👇️What's your favorite East Austin historical spot?
🧘♀️ Yoga en Español? Sana Yoga does that y más. They offer direct Spanish to English translations during their bilingual classes.
We visited a class recently. Check out more of Austin Vida's coverage of the local nonprofit yoga organization via link in comments.
👇️How are you taking care of your well-being this new year? 👇️
Beloved Pan Am Mural turns 45!
Austin Vida captured the special ceremony featuring noted muralist Raúl Valdez and the music of Frederico7.
Check out the mural at the Pan American Recreation Center's Hillside at 2100 E. 3rd St. in Austin, Texas. A.B. Cantu Pan-American Recreation Center Community Advisory Board
Feliz Día de los Muertos!
Celebrate throughout the month by checking out two Mexic-Arte Museum exhibits - the "Ofrenda de la Comunidad" and the “40 Years of Día de los Muertos” exhibit, which features the museum’s efforts to uplift the holiday throughout the decades in Austin.
