This column, more than an editorial, is intended to be a moral manifesto for our readers. More than 33 years have passed since El Reportero was born to be the voice of a community, the newspaper of Latinos in San Francisco. But how much has our society changed since then? How much have we changed? And how much has the media changed?
We live in one of the most developed cities in the world, a city that in other places would be called the “city of the future”, autonomous vehicles drive through our streets and packages are delivered by drones, scenes that are almost like scenes from science fiction stories. However, despite so much development, inequality is palpable in each of our avenues. This era is characterized by disparity and extremes – is this the price of “development”?
It is ironic that we live in an era where the greatest written records in all of human history are preserved and the biggest problem is the veracity of these words. An era where newsrooms no longer seek to do investigative and critical journalism, but rather the preservation of the status quo and the generation of new “needs” in the readers. More than journalism, nowadays it is marketing.
Faced with this dystopian panorama, at El Reportero we assume the moral duty to do real journalism, to inform and transform. To be an independent media that tells the stories that its community needs to read, to recover the tone that has been lost among the strident sound of social networks, to preserve our culture and our stories in the age of the liquid and ephemeral.
In El Reportero we are committed to write and investigate with our soul and not abuse the written word by computer to be the lighthouse in this sea of misinformation. Our community must continue to read in print and that is why we will expand. We will rethink the printed newspaper and give life to our digital transformation project. Where we will take our ideals to the new platforms on the internet. Our goal is to be the voice of the Hispanic community on all platforms.
Join us in this new project.
