Borderzine Information

Borderzine covers Border Life. We are a non-profit news organization training competitive minority student journalists & promoting diversity in the media industry. Borderzine is: > An innovative teaching newsroom that trains and mentors bilingual journalism students with the reporting, writing and multimedia skills they need to be competitive. > A bridge from the multimedia classroom to the newsroom that has already helped Latino journalism graduates into internships and jobs in newsrooms with companies such as ESPN, Associated Press, Gannett, Media News, ImpreMedia, The Boston Globe, Scripps Howard, Univision, Entravision, Telemundo and Al Dia News. > A digital publishing platform based in El Paso, Texas for young multimedia journalists writing across borders of all kinds. We have published more than 1,000 stories in English and Spanish since 2008. Borderzine’s contributors so far are from the U.S.-Mexico border region, Texas, California, Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, Illinois, Tennessee, Chihuahua City and Mexico City.