Council Member Menchaca at Wednesday's rally (photo: Samar Khurshid)
Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito launched on Wednesday an online directory of ethnic and community media and a new effort for city agencies to work with those outlets. The push to expand outreach and public messaging across different languages and communities comes as El Diario, the country's oldest non-English daily newspaper, and other ethnic publications are struggling.
The timing of the announcement raised a few eyebrows - it came barely an
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