La Prensa editor talks to AIC students
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| Mary Ellen Lowney and Natalia Munoz |
SPRINGFIELD--Natalia Munoz has a dream job. She publishes her own newspaper, "La Prensa del oeste de Massachusetts," a bi-lingual monthly publication.
Munoz told her story to students in Professor Lowney's Journalism class recently.
The former reporter for the Springfield Republican, quit her a job several months ago and started the new publication and website. "There are more than 100,00 Latinos in Western Massachusetts, but no newspaper that reaches them. So, I decided to create one," Munoz said.
Health, education and politics are the focus of the paper. "There is a need to have a bigger Latino presence in the media, with different people expressing different views, because they have no other place to express themselves."
The newspaper features a variety of contributing writers from many countries, not just Latin America. And the Latino writers are from all over Latin America, including Mexico, Argentina and El Salvador. "Latinos are not just from Puerto Rico," said Munoz.
Besides her work with the Republican, Munoz has also worked at TV Guide in New York, and for the Associated Press in Barcelona, Spain.
After attending a women's conference last year, Munoz decided to leave her job at the Republican and start out on her own.
"Don't get a job, make a job," is what the speaker at the conference told her, and Munoz said she is happy did just that.
"I am very lucky that I am doing what I love to do," she said.
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