Latinos and Media Project

BIO

Laura Castañeda is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. She has been a staff writer, editor and columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Dallas Morning News, and The Associated Press. Her freelance work has appeared in The New York Times, BusinessWeek Online, Women's Wire, and Hispanic Business, Latina, Latina Style, Latin Girl, Online Journalism Review, Columbia Journalism Review and American Journalism Review magazines. Academic articles have appeared in Journalism Studies and Journalism and Mass Communication Educator.

A book co-edited with Dr. Shannon Campbell of the USC School of Journalism titled "News and Sexuality: Media Portraits of Diversity," was released in October 2005 by Sage Publications.

She is co-author of "The Latino Guide to Personal Money Management," which was published by Bloomberg Press in May 1999, and was released in Spanish by Seven Stories Press in 2001.

She earned undergraduate degrees in journalism and international relations from USC, and a master's degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. She also was awarded a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in business and economics reporting from Columbia's School of Journalism.

Latino Related Research and Publications

Research interests: Ethnic newspapers; Spanish-Language, Latino, and African-American newspapers; convergence curriculum issues; diversity issues.

Current classes: News Writing, Reporting, Investigative Reporting, The American Press and Issues of Sexual Diversity

Recent publications -- Books

"News and Sexuality: Media Portraits of Diversity." Co-edited with Dr. Shannon Campbell of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism. Released by Sage Publications in October 2005.

"The Latino Guide to Personal Money Management," by Laura Castañeda and Laura Castellanos. Bloomberg Press, 1999. Spanish version published by Seven Stories Press, October 2001.

Journal Articles

"Teaching Print, Broadcast and Online Concurrently: A Case Study Assessing a Convergence Curriculum" By Laura Castañeda, Sheila Murphy and Heather Jane Hether. Scheduled for publication by Journalism & Mass Communication Educator in Spring 2005.

"African-American Response to the Growing Southern Latino Community: A Survey of African-American Editors in the Deep South," by Susan Weill and Laura Castañeda. Journalism Studies, November 2004.

Trade Articles

"Bilingual Defectors," By Laura Castañeda. American Journalism Review. June 2001. With two sidebars, "Media Explosion" and "Schooling in Spanish."

"Latino Web Sites Need Deep Pockets: Ethnic Sites Struggle with the Weak Business Models," by Laura Castañeda. Online Journalism Review. July 5, 2001. With one sidebar, "Advertising Dollars in Latino News Online: Despite Large Audiences, Ad Revenues Drop."