Q&A: Karen Rundlet on how funders view collaborative journalism
<p>KR: As a child, news was all around me, so naturally my first reporting work was writing for my high school paper. My mother always had a newspaper on hand and she watched a lot of CNBC. Reading the news was a daily routine. My parents and I moved from Jamaica to the U.S. when I was in elementary school. Learning the ins and outs of the U.S. is every immigrant’s challenge, and from the beginning my mom would always say we could “figure out the American system” by reading the news. I would hear her saying, “You have to stay current,” as she poured over the paper. It wasn’t just us — I had Venezuelan and Cuban friends growing up who said they learned English watching local news. In Miami-Dade County, our families reflected the fact that more than half the population is foreign born. It was pretty common for local news to help immigrants find their footing.</p>
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