¡Extra! ¡Extra!: The Spanish-Language Press That Made the Americas

Join the Deadline Club for a walking tour of New York’s Spanish-language press history and its surprising parallels to media battles of today, led by historian Kelley Kreitz, author of Printing Nueva York (NYU Press).

When Hearst and Pulitzer ginned up “fake news” — what the New York Times called “freak journalism” — to sell papers covering Cuba’s fight for independence from Spain, an innovative Spanish-language press fought back. Cuban émigrés, Puerto Rican intellectuals, and political exiles used their newspapers to champion democracy and forge a pan-Latin American consciousness that emerged into today’s Latinx identity.

Joining us to enact bilingual readings of historic news stories are Gabriela Pinasco Najera, New York correspondent for Mexico-based Quadratín Hispano media; and Juan Manuel Benítez, former NY1 reporter and professor at Columbia Journalism School.