Maria Elena Salinas on connecting with her community as a national news anchor

Journalist Maria Elena Salinas talks about the challenges and responsibilities of representing her community as a national news anchor:

”It's funny because sometimes we talk about the role of a journalist is just to tell the truth and to inform people. And it's true, and that’s what we do and that’s what we strive to do. But I think that when you work in Spanish, there is a difference, because you have an audience that has additional needs. I wouldn’t say different needs, necessarily, because just like any human being, they need to be informed of what’s going on in the world, in the country that they live in, in their community, in their countries of origin. But our community needs to understand a little bit more [about] how to get by in this country.”

Watch Maria Elena Salinas’ full interview where she discusses her career as a journalist and her role as an anchor at Univision.

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