About Us
¡BIENVENIDOS!
Welcome to Hispanically Speaking News
The Hispanically Speaking News (HS News) site, found at www.hs-news.com, is an independent online daily news site and virtual cultural center where we create and publish valuable, timely and culturally sensitive content all peppered with some spicy wit to keep you engaged, informed and connected.
Our niche news site is here for you, in English or en Español, with relevant news about and for Hispanics with hyper local content for our launch market - Chicago. There is daily news coverage, breaking stories, original content, political and cultural commentary, and an ever-growing Hispanic-centric bloggers network.
By investing in engagement and deep audience understanding, HS News provides its viewers with information and thought leadership on issues identified as most relevant to the community, such as immigration, education and economic disparities. To that end, HS News engages high profile individuals, elected officials and newsmakers as contributors such as Senator Robert Menendez, Sylvia Klinger (nutrition expert), Dr. Charley Ferrer (human sexuality expert) and Blog del Narco, to name a few. Join our interest driven Forums or join us on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr to be part of our online casita.
Feel free to browse our own HS News Library containing valuable data on the U.S. Hispanic market by leading research institutions or our Trabajos-Jobs section featuring over 1 million national listings and over 27,000 bilingual job postings. Our cutting-edge HS Matinee contains shorts and feature films by up and coming Latino film makers.
¿Has Oído? featuring our community based reporters, which might be you one day, contain local Chicago neighborhood content, first account stories and breaking news about these vibrant communities that represent over 1.2M Chicagoland Hispanics. Currently HS News provides coverage for the Back of the Yards, Gage Park, Humboldt Park, Little Village and Pilsen communities with plans to include collar counties and suburban locations.
Our Muy Interstante section will introduce you to role models, trend setters, influence makers and pioneers in the community that showcase the vast contributions made by Hispanics to the world.
To showcase Latino life we collect the sights, sounds and diverse flavors with captivating expert personalities showing us the way within our Nuestra Cultura and Buena Vida sections. Visit our Libros section with current Best Sellers lists for Latin America, Mexico, Spain and Spanish book in the U.S. We also offer book reviews on books written by established and emerging Latino authors. Our Deportes section provides coverage for sports not often covered in mainstream media that are passionate favorites in the community: Fútbol, Lucha Libre and Charrerías.
On the lighter side, we offer your daily horoscope, lottery numbers and current Latino entertainment news. For an irreverent perspective of what is being said by and about Latinos take a look at our Amigo ó Enemigo section. In addition the site has some very popular regular feature columns: Latin American Wonder, Open Mic, Faces of the Dream Act, Latino Blotter, Extreme Trafficking and Hispanic Heroes.
Here at HS News we are on permanent beta phase to better reflect the dynamic interests of our audience. The site has fully audited audience tracking numbers, trends and demographics and is followed by Alexa, Quantcast, comScore and Compete.
eMarketer estimates the number of Hispanic internet users is due to surpass 29 million in 2012 and we want to hear from each and everyone of you. Our demographic target market are those 24-54 year old adults driving this unprecedented growth, while actively developing sites for other Hispanic demographics.
We are an ad-supported, free-of-charge site so please support our advertisers and sponsors.
We also recognize that we are placed under the roof of one word, Hispanic, but here in your on-line casita we acknowledge and embrace the diversity amongst ourselves and reflect the social nuances of our different Hispanic cultural groups. Though our priority audience is the Hispanic community there is something here for anyone wanting to learn and engage this vibrant and growing community.
Gracias por visitar, please come back soon and often.
Hispanically Speaking News
www.hs-news.com
HS News StaffCo-Founder, Editor-In-Chief
Estelle Gonzales Walgreen
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Kim Kipp
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Alfredo Lopez
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Juan Laverde
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Nickie Lewis
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Andrew Sagartz, MBA, JD
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Dr. Ellen McMahon
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Marcela Alvarez
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Cristian Galli
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Health Writer, Blogger
Karen Curtiss
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Dena Mendes, ND
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Dr. Charley Ferrer
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Affiliations
Little Village Chamber of Commerce
Illinois Business Immigration Coalition
Illinois Coalition for Immigrants and Refugees
Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
National Association Hispanic Journalists
