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While other communities across the country are closing down newspapers, the Bronx, which has longly been an undercovered New York City borough, has given birth to a new newspaper: the Tremont Tribune.
The best part is that the Tremont Tribune, which is serving Tremont, Belmont, Bathgate, West Farms and Crotona, is a free BILINGUAL (English-Spanish) community newspaper. The first May issue is circulating in the neighborhoods it serves.
The Tribune is published by the Bronx News Network (BNN), a new nonprofit organization founded and sponsored by the Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a group used to community news reporting in the Bronx. After all, the Mosholu Preservation Corporation has published the award-winning Norwood News in the northwest Bronx since 1988. BNN also publishes the Mount Hope Monitor in Community District 5.
In a message to readers in its inaugural copy, the Tremont Tribune welcomes readers with an exclamation mark. It's a bold move to start newspapers these days in this tough economy. But it does make sense to start a community paper in an area that has been undercovered for so long and to offer content in Spanish too.
I was honored to have received a copy of the inaugural newspaper from the hands of Jordan Moss, BNN executive editor, shortly after the inauguration ceremony of our new Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. yesterday at Lehman College. Our new BP spoke of his "One Bronx" vision for the borough, and I think the Tremont Tribune adds a needed and important community voice.
In the welcoming article, BNN tells readers the Tribune is part of a "growing movement of nonprofit community news in the Bronx." BNN works with other nonprofit community newspapers including the Highbridge Horizon (which is also bilingual), the Hunts Point Express and the Mott Haven Herald.
All these newspapers have their own sites and are linked through the BNN.
The May edition of the Tribune, which is only 12 pages, offers articles ranging from an article on how residents in Crotona are setting their sights on federal stimulus money to go toward building a green community center in Jacob's Field to a full page of community events and announcements.
It also features an insert of Bronx Youth Heard (also bilingual), a publication of the Bronx Youth Journalism Initiative, which is published four times a year and appears inside the Norwood News, the Highbridge Horizon and the Mount Hope Monitor. Actually, the Youth Journalism Program is currently seeking Bronx high school students who are sophomores, juniors or seniors to apply. Classes begin in September. For more information on this educational opportunity, e-mail bronxyouthheard (at) gmail.com.
To check out the Tribune online, go to www.tremonttribune.org. The paper's editor is James Fergusson.
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