In television news, challenges are expected, especially when it's for the sake of improvement. For TUTV, election night served a new challenge. It was the first time that the Emmy-winning station ran its election coverage in English and Spanish simultaneously. Temple Update, the English-language show, and Lo Último, its Spanish-speaking counterpart, teamed up to promote Lo Último and to continue to improve the amount of coverage it provides. "We've been doing our Spanish-language news brief for a couple of years now, and for the last two or three semesters, we've had a spanish...

There were no experts seated on a dais, directing the daylong agenda and maintaining a commanding view of the participants. This was a first-ever conference to connect Philadelphians who empower their neighborhoods through media, art and culture. And for everyone to benefit, everyone engaged at street-level. There were no hierarchies. "It's not the kind of event where you have five panelists talking and 65 people listening," Klein College Professor Clemencia Rodriguez explained in advance of the symposium held Sept. 28 at Temple. About 70 invitees from Philadelphia that included...