Two multimedia journalism students from The University of Texas at El Paso presented at the National Communication Association’s (NCA) annual convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in November 2016.
Undergraduate student reporters Jack Price and Leslie Borrayo are part of Borderzine, the capstone course of the multimedia journalism sequence in UTEP‘s Department of Communication. The course gives students an opportunity to refine their skills in reporting and producing multimedia stories, and exposes them to a professional newsroom environment.
Both Price and Borrayo wrote stories revolving around air pollution in the El Paso/Juárez border region. They presented their journalistic stories at the convention in a panel titled “Construyendo Puentes/Building Bridges: Communicating Environmental Justice and Latino Community Engagement.”
Borrayo’s story, titled “Ciudad Juárez no cuenta con la tecnologia para medir el aire contaminado,” outlines the problems that Juárez, Mexico, has with outdated technology that cannot properly measure air pollution to alert the community to take health precautions.