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José Luis Benavides. Photo Credit: CSUN website.

California State University, Northridge student reporters for El Nuevo Sol — CSUN’s Spanish-language journalism program’s first publication — received the Emerging Youth Voice award from New America Media (NAM) in September for the students’ 22-story project — Trabajadores Jóvenes en Los Angeles (Young Workers in Los Angeles) — about millennial challenges and experiences in the workplace.

The winning team was comprised of journalism seniors Pilar de Haro, Keila Vizcarra, Curtis Poindexter; journalism alumni Grecia Lopez, Aracelly Solis, Arabella Hernandez; art senior Lorena Roque; journalism and mass communication alumnus Daniel Shin and former student Michael Arvizu. The faculty advisor for the project was journalism professor José Luis Benavides.

The El Nuevo Sol project staff set out to debunk the stereotypes that millennials worked for fun and not for a living.

“The series is significant because it counteracts the false portrayal of young working people prevalent in society, which pretends they like flexible schedules, live at home with their parents,” said Benavides. “El Nuevo Sol portrayed a completely different reality, where young workers face unpredictable schedules, contribute financially to their household’s expenses, are victims of wage theft, either by not being paid overtime or by being forced to work off-the-clock.”

The inspiration for the project came out of a research report by the University of California, Los Angeles Labor Center, “I am a #YoungWorker.” The multimedia report combined data, stories and images by millennials about young workers’ struggles, dreams and hopes for the future.

The “I am a #YoungWorker” report showed that less than one percent of millennials spend their money solely on recreational activities, while 32 percent contribute financially to their households. The study also said that nine out of 10 young workers do not have a set work schedule, and a third have been victims of wage theft — by being denied overtime pay or forced to work off-the-clock.

“A lot of our students, including myself, resonated with the key points that came out of that report,” de Haro said.

CSUN journalism senior and project editor Pilar de Haro. Photo Credit: Pilar de Haro email.

The team of student journalists and alumni crafted the series from February 2016 to May 2016, to show the struggles of millennials in the 21st century economy.

“We’re not one story,” said de Haro. “We’re not one voice. We are many different individuals that come from different backgrounds.”

NAM is a nationwide association of more than 3,000 ethnic media organizations, representing the development of a more inclusive journalism. Its awards celebrate outstanding journalism on issues ranging from the environment, health and education to politics, immigration, sports and arts and culture.

Benavides created the Spanish-language journalism program and the core courses for the minor in interdisciplinary Spanish-language journalism in 2003. The minor became official in 2007.

El Nuevo Sol is a multimedia website produced by the students in CSUN’s Spanish-language journalism program. Established in 2003, El Nuevo Sol has three main goals: contribute to a better and more accurate news coverage of Latino communities in the United States, including young Latinos in Southern California; provide a platform for students in the program to disseminate and showcase their journalistic work; and practice a socially responsible journalism that reports accurately and from a critical and independent perspective, providing meaningful context to stories usually ignored or underreported by mainstream news organizations.

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