Reporting on Latin/a/x Communities: Lessons to Learn

This chapter introduces the who, what, when, where and why of the textbook. It introduces the historical, political, economic and cultural background of the manuscript. Moving from the newsroom to the classroom implies bringing an in-depth understanding of news making to the professional preparation of younger journalists. All book contributors noticed the lack of a textbook that could be used in the classroom to better train journalism students in covering the Latinx communities. There was an evident need for a handbook that could be used to better prepare journalism students and communicators. Hence, all convened to write one. This is the result of a collective effort and the very first attempt to provide a handbook to reporting on Latino/a/x/s communities.