Federico Subervi, Ph.D

Professor, School of Journalism & Mass Communication

Texas State Univeristy-San Marcus

Director of Latinos and Media Project

Federico Subervi has had a busy summer:

Attended the National Conference on Media Reform (Minneapolis, MN, June 5-8), where he spoke at a panel discussing Spanish-language media.

Attended a meeting in Chicago (June 18-20) that brought together recipients of McCormick Foundation grants to analyze various issues related to ethnic media. His project is assessing the policies and practices in Texas and Illinois for emergency communications directed at non-English-speaking populations.

From Chicago he flew directly to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to attend (June 21-25) and become a team member of OBITEL, which brings together annually a group of international scholars from 9 Latin American and Iberian countries who are analyzing telenovelas and other fictional television produced and distributed in these region.

From July 22-27, he will be in Chicago to attend UNITY 2008, the conference of journalists of color, where he is one of the authors selected to do a book signing for his edited/authored book:  The Mass Media and Latino Politics (NY:Routledge).