CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California records
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Scope and Contents
The CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California records comprise the organizational records of the non-profit, professional organization currently known as CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California. CCNMA, formerly known as the California Chicano News Media Association, promotes diversity in news media by providing encouragement, scholarships, and educational programs for Latinos pursuing careers in journalism. CCNMA was founded in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. The CCNMA records consist of correspondence, reports, administrative records, photographs, subject files, clippings, audiovisual material, event programs, and other material created by the organization from its founding in 1972 through its more recent activities in the 2010s. The collection documents the history of CCNMA as well as many of its educational and professional programs, including the CCNMA's various scholarship funds, such as the Joel Garcia Memorial and Frank del Olmo Memorial scholarships; the Ruben Salazar Journalism Awards; the Journalism Opportunities Conference (JOC) hosted annually by CCNMA; and the various CCNMA journalism workshops for high school and college students. Lastly, the collection holds material relating to the creation and publication of CCNMA's quarterly newsletter, El Sol.
Dates
- Creation: 1972 - 2017
Creator
- California Chicano News Media Association (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Biographical / Historical
The following information was copied from the CCNMA website (https://www.ccnma.org/about) on July 17, 2023.
CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California is a non-profit, professional organization that aims to promote diversity in the news media by providing encouragement, scholarships and educational programs for Latinos pursuing careers in journalism. The organization's mission is to foster an accurate and fair portrayal of Latinos in the news, and to promote the social, economic and professional advancement of Latino journalists.
CCNMA was founded in 1972 in Los Angeles, and it is the oldest regional organization of journalists of color in the country. The association first offered scholarships in 1976 to Latino journalism students, and in 1978 held its first job fair. In 1979 an executive office was established at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. In 2012 CCNMA relocated to Santa Monica, Ca. where we are now housed by the ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. CCNMA is widely respected within the industry for its educational and professional programs, which have helped increase the number of journalists of color in the news media. This includes sponsoring workshops, a scholarship program which has awarded more than $800,000 to more than 800 students, and staging the largest job fair on the West Coast for journalists of color.
Extent
47.77 Linear Feet (45 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California, May 16, 2023.
Processing Information
The CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California records are minimally processed with box-level descriptive records.
Most of the boxes in this collection came to USC with brief labels handwritten on the outside of each box. During accessioning and re-boxing, the archivist re-used the previous box labels as the titles of this finding aid's box-level descriptive records. Boxes that came to USC without labels have record titles enclosed in brackets.
Subject
- California Chicano News Media Association -- Archives (Organization)
- National Association of Hispanic Journalists (U.S.) -- Archives (Organization)
- Olmo, Frank del, 1948-2004 -- Archives (Person)
- Ramos, George -- Archives (Person)
- Salazar, Ruben, 1928-1970 -- Archives (Person)
- Sotomayor, Frank -- Archives (Person)
Genre / Form
- Administrative records
- Audiotapes
- Bylaws (administrative records)
- clippings files
- Correspondence
- Moving images
- Newsletters
- Programs (documents)
- Reports
Topical
- Hispanic American journalists -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
- Hispanic Americans -- California -- Archival resources
- Journalism -- California -- Societies, etc. -- Archival resources
- Journalists -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Mexican American journalists -- California -- Archival resources
- Mexican Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
- Professional associations -- California -- Archival resources
- Title
- Finding aid for the CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California records
- Status
- Minimally Processed
- Author
- Bo Doub
- Date
- 2023 June
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu