Lecture: "The News Media in Puerto Rico: Journalism in Colonial Settings and Times of Crisis"

The presentation will address the current state of the mass media and journalism in Puerto Rico in the midst of the Island’s ongoing economic and political crises; it will bring together three areas of inquiry: political-economic factors that condition the operations of the Island’s mass media; opinions from sixty Puerto Rican journalists; and theoretical and methodological frameworks for future research related to media in colonial/post-colonial settings.