Daniela Gerson

Reporter

Daniela Gerson is an assistant professor of Journalism at California State University, Northridge and West Coast Director of the Center for Community and Ethnic Media(CCEM) at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York (CUNY). She is also co-founder and editor of the weekly immigration newsletter, Migratory Notes. Previously she was a community engagement editor at the LA Times; editor of a trilingual hyperlocal publication, Alhambra Source; and a staff immigration reporter for the New York Sun. She has reported for outlets including WNYC: New York Public Radio, The World, Der Spiegel, Financial Times, CNN and The New York Times.

(Left to right) Gwen Muranaka, Mikey Hirano Culross and Mario Reyes, in the newsroom of the last remaining Japanese American daily newspaper, the Rafu Shimpo in downtown Los Angeles, 2010.

A Japanese American newspaper chronicles the ‘searing’ history of immigrant incarceration

May 30, 2019Immigration

As Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II die, one newspaper finds its community’s history carries new resonance in the current era of immigrant detention.

A woman stands in conference area in front of "Guatemala" sign

How one woman went from ‘Why are these Mexicans here?’ to supporting immigrant businesses

November 7, 2016Business

Ospizio al Colle del Piccolo S.Bernardo, Italy. Languages such as Italian ('ospizio') and Spanish ('hospicio') have words that sound like 'hospice'. But they mean something different: old people's home, poorhouse, refuge for migrants.

What happens when the doctor says ‘hospice’ and you understand ‘poorhouse’?

May 29, 2014Health & Medicine