L.A. Times Pulitzer Winner Readying Hybrid Latino Database
When journalist-turned-marketing-executive Robert Montemayor was first referred by a friend to the dean of Rutgers’ School of Communication and Information to discuss a possible teaching position, he quickly realized that Jorge Reina Schement was once on his Los Angeles Times list of go-to academic sources. Now, several years after joining the faculty in 2008, Montemayor and Schement are preparing to launch the Latino Information Network at Rutgers (LIN@R). It is a database that in all likelihood will become a trusted source for a new generation of newspaper reporters.
“There are a lot of statistics floating out into the marketplace these days about Hispanics in the United Statics,” Montemayor (pictured) tells FishbowlLA via telephone.
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