About LA Beez

LA Beez is an online collaboration of ethnic media organizations featuring hyperlocal news content covering the metropolitan Los Angeles area.  We publish daily articles contributed by the following six L.A.-based publications representing the city's demographic diversity:

• Arab-American Affairs Magazine
• Asian Journal
• Carib Press
• Impulso
• La Garment & Citizen
• La Watts Times

We also collaborate with California State University-Northridge's Journalism Department and their publication El Nuevo Sol.

The LA Beez ethnic news hub is a project of New America Media's Digital Divide Initiative funded by The Ford Foundation. The Ford-NAM Digital Divide Initiative aims to assist ethnic media in improving coverage of their communities and other ethnic groups through citizen journalism and online multimedia development. The goals of this project are to help community media set up a viable, robust online presence with trained contributors who could produce stories more efficiently and comprehensively, and to open up new lines of communication among and between ethnic and immigrant communities.

If you have questions about LA Beez, please contact Julian Do, NAM-SoCal Director and Manager of Ford-NAM Digital Divide Project.

Contact Person: Julian Do
Telephone: (714) 366-6669
Fax: (213) 947-4972
Email: jdo (at) newamericamedia.org
Website: http://www.labeez.org

About New America Media

New America Media is the nation's first and largest collaboration of and advocate for ethnic, community, minority, and bilingual media sources.  A multi-channel, multi-media news and communications agency, the NAM coalition is a response to the 51 million or more ethnic adults who connect to their home countries, America, and each other through 3000-plus ethnic media--the fastest-growing sector of American journalism.  Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Los Angeles, Fresno, New York, and Washington, D.C., NAM is dedicated to bringing traditionally marginalized voices--those of ethnic minorities, immigrants, youth, and elders--into the national media-powered discourse.  Holding those voices as our central tenet, NAM's goal is to build an inclusive journalism and communications for our increasingly diverse and fragmented global community in the U.S. and overseas.

To join NAM's media network of free content exchange, please click here.