Impressive Short Films Highlight Our Fragility

Impressive Short Films Highlight Our Fragility

Mary Mata March 12, 2012

Narrative Shorts 1 played at the Alamo Draft House and featured a collection of short films that I promise will leave you emotionally drained – but that is a good […]

Brazil’s “Iron Lady” Humanized Through Digital Campaign

Mary Mata

By Jessika Gomez-Duarte In the the SXSWi panel “How Digital Softened Brazil’s Iron Lady” Andrew Paryzer, Director of Accounts at Blue State Digital, shared the story of Dilma Rousseff’s 2010 presidential campaign – which not […]

Immigration, LGBT Advocates Telling Their Stories Digitally

Mary Mata March 11, 2012

Immigration and LGBT advocates spoke about the ways in which they utilized digital media to organize around their issues and campaigns at the Still Invisible? Waging Stories with Social Media […]

White House Using Technology To Reach Latinos

Mary Mata

The White House is increasingly utilizing digital platforms in order to more effectively do outreach with the Latino community, according to a The White House on The Road panel Saturday […]

Being An Agent Of Change In Colombia

Mary Mata March 10, 2012

By Armando Rayo This SXSW coverage is sponsored by Univision News.  Panelists: Andrés Traslaviña & Daniel Medina Great panel discussion regarding how social media has allowed citizens to engage in the […]

The Advertising Industry Is Changing For, With Latinos

Mary Mata

The gist of the “Multi y Mono: A Cultural Advertising Battle” panel at South By Southwest Interactive Saturday morning is that ad agencies, marketers and brands themselves are going to […]

“USA” Becomes Anti-Latino Chant At HS Basketball Game

NewsTaco March 9, 2012

Of all the cheers and taunts that you think you could hear at a high school basketball game (“We’ve got spirit, yes we do!” and such), “USA! USA!” wouldn’t be […]

“West Texas Miracle” Producing Future Latino Leaders

Mary Mata

There is a Catholic high school for boys from the borderland that has produced wave upon wave of scholars, entrepreneurs, and leaders for the last nine decades.  Cathedral High School’s legacy […]

NewsTaco Headed To Austin To Cover SXSW

Mary Mata March 8, 2012

NewsTaco, The Latino Daily, will be in Austin, Texas beginning Friday, March 9, 2012 to cover the South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival (SXSW) including Interactive, Music and Film […]

Registering Young Latinos Key To Electoral Change In 2012

Mary Mata March 7, 2012

By Paul M. Saldaña El Niño is a warm current of water creating change in the climate of the Pacific Ocean, while at the same time, hefty thunderstorms occur on the […]