December 2010 Newsletter
grants
Most of the grants described in our newsletter are made possible through the generosity of past donors who established permanent, charitable funds with us during their lifetimes or through their wills. To learn more about how to set up a fund, please contact our general counsel, Jane Wilton, at 212.686.2563.
Hearing Immigrant Voices table of contents 2 Manufacturing Jobs in Brooklyn: Now Hiring 3 Gay and Gray 5 The Legacy of Madame Anna E. Schoen-René
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hough the newspaper business has seen brighter days, Ewa KernJedrychowska still has a job as a journalist with the Polish-language paper Nowy Dziennik, one of 380 community and ethnic newspapers in the City. Ten years ago, Ewa came from Poland largely to further her career, but writing only for Dziennik limited her exposure to the paper’s loyal, but small, readership. “When you work with ethnic media, you have to deal with limitations,” says Mohsin Zaheer, a journalist of 20 years currently reporting for two Pakistani news outlets in the City. “You get stuck with your day-to-day work and don’t get to try new things.” Mohsin Zaheer, editor of Sada-e-Pakistan, an Urdu-language newspaper in the City, and a Feet in Two Worlds fellow, reporting from the site of the proposed Islamic community center in the Financial District.