Culture clash puts media in spotlight
Miami newspaper's handling of journalists with links to Marti shows 2 worldviews
By Andrew Zajac
Tribune national correspondent
Published December 14, 2006
MIAMI -- El Nuevo Herald, a Spanish-language newspaper published by the Miami Herald Media Co., triggered a community-wide furor in September when it fired two reporters and severed ties with a freelance writer for working part time for U.S. government-run Radio and TV Marti.
The journalists eventually were reinstated, but the dismissals and their aftermath laid bare a cultural dissonance between how journalism works in the U.S. and how some journalists from Latin America perceive their roles.
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