ICFJ talked with her about the creation of the podcast, which launches next month. Salud has also paired up with Harvard Medical School’s Office for Diversity, Inclusion and Community Partnerships, whose experts serve as medical advisors for each episode.Ī former staff reporter for El Planeta in Boston and its sister paper, El Tiempo Latino in Washington D.C., Zea is now a freelance journalist and a regular contributor to the PRI program The World, where she focuses her reporting on Latin America and Latinos in the U.S.
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After participating in a webinar series on professional branding last fall, she was one of 13 grantees awarded $10,000 to develop unique news projects or products that promote their brand as journalists and engage audiences. Zea conceived of and developed the podcast as part of the Building Your Brand: Training and Grants for Journalists of Color, an ICFJ program in partnership with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and supported by the Meta Journalism Project. “We want our audience to connect with the characters featured in our episodes, while learning from world-class experts on healthcare.”
“We are incorporating real human stories to illustrate scientific topics, and I think this is something novel, at least in Spanish-language podcasts,” said Zea. with accurate, relevant health information.
The sponsorship will help ICFJ program participant Tibisay Zea and her partner, Boston’s El Planeta newspaper, engage Spanish speakers in the U.S. Podcast founder Tibisay Zea is a freelance journalist and a regular contributor to the PRI program, The World.Įven before the launch of her Spanish-language podcast, Salud, an enterprising journalist in Boston has attracted support from the city’s public health commission for a second season.
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