A new legislative proposal promises to shift how California communicates with residents leveraging ethnic media as critical sources of news and information.Â
Journalist Alireza Hekmatshoar of KIRN Radio Iran in Los Angeles, home to the world’s largest Iranian diaspora community, believes change is coming to Iran.
Even as the Trump Administration rolled back its tariffs on newsprint from Canada, community newspapers are struggling with rising costs for their print editions.
One-third of California’s newsrooms have fully shut since 2005. As trust in national media crumbles, a modest proposal could determine whether the rest survive.Â
