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The Associated Press Drops the Term "Illegal Immigrant"
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 02, 2013
Image credit courtesy New America Media
The Associated Press announced Tuesday, April 2, 2013 that it will no longer use the term "illegal" or "illegal immigrant" to describe a person. Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll wrote in a blog post that the decision was part of the company's attempt to rid their Stylebook of labels. She did not specify which term the Associated Press would use instead.
But the question doesn't only apply to English-language news media. New America Media asked editors of U.S. in-language media outlets what terms they used to describe undocumented immigrants (in Chinese, Korean, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese) -- and found some surprising responses. - Report courtesy of New America Media (For the full report click on the blue headline above)
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New America Media, News Report, Elena Shore, Posted: Sep 19, 2011
Before publishing a story on immigration, every editor faces a question: What term should be used to describe an immigrant who is in the United States illegally?The AP Stylebook states that the preferred term is “illegal immigrant” -- but that “illegal” should not beused as a noun. The
Guy Kawasaki - The Top Ten Mistakes of Entrepreneurs
UPDATE:
We received alot of positive feedback to our posting of Guy Kawasaki's Spring, 2013 talk at the UC Berkeley Startup Competition (Bplan).
The former chief evangelist of Apple and co-founder of Garage Technology Ventures is such a good speaker that you wanted to hear more of him. He was the keynote speaker at the first Donald W. Reynolds Governor's Cup Business Plan Competition at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond in 2005, and its timeless.
You
can
click
on
the
top
blue
headline
to
the
full
story
and
his
video
or
Network TV News Video Editor Eddy Li writes "My Journey Through Cancer"
Eddy
Li,
former
ABC
News
Video
Editor
1971
to
2009,
now
retired
and
healthy
Photo
credit:
Eddy
Li
Hong Kong
May
13,
2013
Eddy Li globe-trotted the world for ABC News in a high-stress non-stop news video editing job from 1971 to 2009.
When a sudden diagnosis of cancer changed his life, Li wrote his personal account on how he entered into the darkest tunnel of his life and emerged, a more vigilant and environmentally aware individual.
Today,
as
a
cancer
survivor
and
a
retiree
who
now
enjoys
a
healthier
and
more
fulfilling
life,
Eddy
shares
what
he
has
learned
about
our
world's
increasingly
hazardous
environment
and
how
you
can
protect
yourself
from
its
toxicity.
AsianConnections'
Suzanne
Joe
Kai
chatted
with
Eddy
about
his
new
book,
"From
A
Great
Escape
to
a
New
Beginning
-
My
Journey
Through
Cancer."
Suzanne:
Congratulations
on
beating
your
Stage
3 cancer.
When
you
were
a
news
video
editor
with
a busy
globe-trotting
life
for
years,
can
you
share
with
our
readers
what
your
life
was
like,
and how
and
why
you
have
changed
your
lifestyle?
Nicole Wong to join Obama Administration as White House's first Chief Privacy Officer
Nicole Wong Photo credit: Bart Nagel
Washington,
D.C.
May
8,
2013
President Barack Obama has reportedly selected Nicole Wong as the White House's first Chief Privacy Officer. Wong received her law degree and a master's degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley. She was a partner at Perkins Coie law firm. After working for Google for eight years as a vice president and deputy general counsel overseeing censorship issues for products such as YouTube.com, she joined Twitter as its legal director in November, 2012.
Wong's new role will be to advise the Obama administration on matters involving Internet Privacy. She will reportedly be a senior advisor to Todd Y. Park who was appointed in March, 2012 as the United States Chief Technology Officer and Assistant to the President.
Todd Y. Park Photo credit: WhiteHouse.gov Prior to Todd Y. Park's latest White House post as the United States Chief Technology Officer and Assistant to the President, he was appointed in 2009 by President Obama as the Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Park is a graduate of Harvard, and co-founder of two health information technology companies.
Related sources:
White
House
Blog profile
on
Todd
Y.
Park
Wikipedia
on
Todd
Park
Wikipedia
on
Nicole
Wong
Update: LA City Council Approves Motion to Designate 1 Acre Oak Grove Landmark Status at site of former Internment Camp
Photo Credit: Tuna Canyon Detention Station Facebook Page Photo credited to David Scott, the Scott Family, and Little Landers Historical Society. David Scott is the grandson of Merrill Scott who was the superintendent of TCDS. Photo circa 1941-1943. The structures were removed, but the oak and sycamore trees dating back to World War II still live on this site.
June 25, 2013 UPDATE:
Los Angeles
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to support an amending motion by Council member Richard Alarcon to declare an approximate one acre live oak and sycamore grove as a historical-cultural monument at the former Tuna Canyon Detention Station in Tujunga in Southern California.
The site was the U.S. Department of Justice internment camp for Japanese, German and Italian Americans during World War II.
The live oak and sycamore trees date back to World War II when the internment camp was in operation.
The Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission had recommended against monument status because the original internment camp structures were removed years ago to make way for the Verdugo Hills golf course. The site is now being planned by a developer for a housing development.
Council mmember Richard Alarcon argued that Los Angeles has designated many monuments at sites where the original structures are gone, and he pointed out that trees have also been designated as historic.
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