Atlantic City Focus Wins at the 2025 Ethnic & Community Media Awards
Atlantic City Focus won The Ethnic & Community Media CHAMPION AWARD on Thursday, February 6, 2025, at The College of New Jersey.
EWING TOWNSHIP - If you are reading this...congratulate yourself because, more than likely you are one of the faithful readers of Atlantic City Focus that propelled us to winning The Ethnic & Community Media CHAMPION AWARD on Thursday, February 6, 2025, at The College of New Jersey.
It was a cold snowy day in Ewing Township, as about 100 people from ethnic media braved the elements to attend "The NJ Ethnic & Community Media Celebration and Awards."
The luncheon celebration was sponsored by The Center for Cooperative Media of Montclair State University.
The mission of the Center for Cooperative Media is to grow and strengthen local journalism and support an informed society in New Jersey and beyond.
The Center was founded in 2012, in response to the downsizing of New Jersey news organizations and the changes in the ownership of regional public media. These shifts in the news and information landscape hurt the volume of local news available in a state that has historically had limited news coverage, due to its proximity to the major metropolitan areas of New York City and Philadelphia. With 564 municipalities packed into a densely populated state, New Jersey was—and is—ripe for innovation in local journalism.
The Center coordinates statewide and regional reporting, connecting more than 280 local news and information providers through its flagship project, the NJ News Commons.
Highlights of the day before the actual awards included:
- A Fireside Chat with Mazin Sidahmed, who is the Co-Executive director of, Documented NY.
Presentations from:
- Sen. Andy Kim,
- Sen. Cory Booker, and
- Dr. Patricia Campos-Medina, who is currently the executive director at The Worker Institute at ILR-Cornell University.
The awards were the last part of the day celebrating Ethnic & Community Media.
Nominees included media sources dating back to the early part of the 20th century, media sources that print and broadcast in several different languages and media sources that serve diverse communities.
The last award of the evening was The Ethnic & Community Media CHAMPION AWARD. That award went to Atlantic City Focus.
Here Cassandra Etienne discusses the importance of Atlantic City Focus.
Mark Tyler thanking everyone and showing off The Award
All of our communities continue to win because of the dedication of all of the gathered media outlets that serve their readers each day. Here is a photo album of some of the people attending to celebrate.
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