Latino USA is a nationally syndicated public radio program produced by KUT-FM radio in Austin, Texas and distributed nation-wide by National Public Radio (NPR). In Broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast Radio shows and Television shows to multiple individual stations without going through Public broadcasting refers to radio television and other electronic media outlets that receive some or all of their funding from the public For the town in Armenia see Kut Armenia. Al-Kūt ( BGN: Al Kūt; also spelled Kut-Al-Imara or Kut El Amara As a radio magazine, the weekly, half-hour radio program focuses on issues of concern to the Latino community while maintaining the technical standards and format of an NPR program. This article is about a Publication, for other uses see Radio (disambiguation. As of October, 2007, the program staff included Host and Managing Editor Maria Hinojosa, Executive Producer Sean Collins, Senior Producer Alex Avila, and Technical Producer Walter Morgan. Maria Hinojosa (b 1961 Mexico City) is a Mexican American broadcast journalist. Walter Morgan may be Walter T Morgan, (1912-1990 Welsh academic Walter L Additional staff included Deputy Producer Benjamin Jacob and Assistant Producer Angela Maldonado.
History
According to founding Executive Producer Maria Emilia Martin, Latino USA was born following several failed attempts by NPR to create Latino-oriented programming for public radio. As early as 1991, Dr. Gil Cardenas, director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, co-wrote a grant proposal to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) that eventually led to the creation of Latino USA, which premiered in April of 1993. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB is a private non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress and partially funded by the United States In 1992, Maria Emilia Martin was an editor at NPR in Washington, D. C. She left that post to become Latino USA's founding Executive Producer and secured Maria Hinojosa as the Program Host.
Today
Many of the early personalities responsible for the creation of Latino USA are no longer associated with the program. In the year 2000, responsibility for the administration of Latino USA was transferred from the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, to KUT-FM, based at the College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin. In 2002, founding Executive Producer Maria Martin left the program. In 2006, program Host Maria Hinojosa had the title "Managing Editor" added. She has been the voice of Latino USA since its inception.
Latino USA has won journalism awards, including: The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award; the Radio-Television News Directors Association's Edward R. Murrow Award; The Scripps Howard Foundation's National Journalism Award; The Gabriel Award; The Gracie Allen Award; and numerous awards from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. The Robert F Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism is a Journalism award named after Robert F The Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA is a membership organization of radio television and online news directors producers executives and educators with both a Canadian The Edward R Murrow Awards are presented by the Radio-Television News Directors Association in recognition of what the Association terms "outstanding achievements The Scripps Howard Foundation is the corporate foundation of the E Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen ( July 26 1895 Allen used to claim that she was born in 1906 but when pressed for evidence she would say that her birth certificate The National Federation of Community Broadcasters (or NFCB) is an a national membership organization of community-oriented non-commercial Radio stations producers
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