Latinos and Media Project

BIO

Edna Negrón is an associate professor of journalism at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She is a veteran journalist, who has worked at Newsday, New York Newsday, the South Florida  Sun-Sentinel , and The Record in Bergen County, New Jersey. She is currently a part-time editor at The Herald News in Passaic County, New Jersey.

During her newspaper career, Negrón  has covered local municipalities on Long Island and later specialized in education and immigration reporting in the New York City and South Florida markets. She won New York City Press Club awards for her work writing about school choice in the New York City Public Schools and for coverage of the Happy Land Social Club fire in the Bronx.

Since 1996, she has worked in new media helping to launch three news and information Web sites: sun-sentinel.com, silive.com, the community online site affiliated with the Staten Island Advance and  soloella.com, a bilingual destination site for U.S. Latinas. A former New York City public school teacher, Negrón taught in East New York, Brooklyn and developed curriculum for students of limited English proficiency.

 She has a master's from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and graduate degrees in urban education and school supervision from Long Island University.  Negrón is a lifetime member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and had served as a  board member representing the New York City region.  She is also a member of the Association for Educators of Journalism and Mass Communication.

She is currently conducting research on the rise of Spanish language newspapers and Generation Y Latinos and their impact within the millennial echo-boomer generation.

Her published works include:  “Wanted: Bilingual Spanish speaking journalists,” Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, March  2006;  “Convergence at a small college,” Insights, the journal of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, Fall 2005;  “Generation Y Latinos: A Surging Market,” Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, February 2004;  “Why Gen Y: Newspapers have three years to get it right,” mediamanagementcenter.org, Media Management Center, Northwestern University, October 2002. “Latino teens consider reading vital,” Críticas, Publisher’s Weekly, Winter 2001; “New Puerto Rican Archive,” Críticas, Publisher’s Weekly, Winter 2001.

Latino-Related Research & Publications

"Wanted: Spanish Bilingual Journalists," Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, March 2006.

"Convergence at a small college," Insights, the journal of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, Fall 2005.

"Generation Y Latinos: A Surging Market," Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, February 2004.

"Latino teens consider reading vital," Críticas, Publisher's Weekly, Winter 2001.
Generation Y Latinos: A Surging Market, Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education,  February 2004.

Why Gen Y: Newspapers have three years to get it right, mediamanagementcenter.org,  Media Management Center, Northwestern University, October 2002.