Since the election of Hugo Chávez in 1999 and the subsequent growth of Venezuelan immigration to the United States, there has been an explosion of Venezuelan media in South Florida. These media are focused on local issues confronting this expanding immigrant community. However, the mediated communication being produced among its members is also transnational in scope; events taking place in Venezuela heavily inform the content of these outlets. This research analyses 34 interviews with Venezuelan journalists in South Florida in order to further our understanding of the production of immigrant media within a transnational context. The results point to a hybrid form of journalism, one that draws on cultural background and national identity while also relying on ideology and connections to fellow immigrants. The outcome appears to be the production of transnational media spaces that represent new directions for the study of diasporic communication and the formation of transnational networks.

Miami-Dade County, Florida, has 2.5 million residents, with more than half (52%) born outside of the United States. Catering to these immigrant populations is a rich landscape of community media outlets focusing on the multiple Hispanic immigrant communities in this region. Drawing on the confluence of these geographic and socio-cultural factors, as well as the growing political influence of Hispanic populations, this study presents the results of a content analysis of election articles (N = 398) produced by four Hispanic immigrant media outlets in Miami-Dade over the course of a year. The results show an emphasis on covering elections in the home country, and contribute to the growing body of research on the increasingly transnational lives of immigrant populations and provide new insights into how these media outlets shape the coverage of elections that impact these communities.

This study presents an empirical, qualitative investigation into the practices of Venezuelan journalists in South Florida. The Venezuelan population in the United States has more than doubled in the past decade, making it the fastest growing sub-population of Latinos in the country, and a majority of these new arrivals have settled in South Florida. Given the rapid changes this community has undergone in the previous 10 years, the results of this investigation provide a more complete picture of global journalism and transnational migration in the digital media era through the recognition of the complexities inherent in the work of immigrant journalists, offering new contributions to conceptualizations of immigrant assimilation as non-linear and providing an updated framework for understanding the production of Spanish-language, immigrant media in the United States. Three models of immigrant journalism are presented and discussed as a final result of the research.

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This article enhances the notion of city-making by explicating its communicative processes and functions within the press. Through a quantitative content analysis and qualitative textual analysis of Miami Herald news coverage related to incorporation and annexation policies and practices over a period of 3 years, we argue for a stronger implication of the press in coverage of local policyand place-making. Through a quantitative content analysis of 437 articles from the MiamiToday's place-making of-and in-Miami is as complex as the history that led to it becoming a culturally diverse and contested part of the world (Croucher, 1997;Grunwald, 2006;Nijman, 2011;Portes & Stepick, 1993). Unique among Florida's 67 counties, Miami-Dade County-which includes the City of Miami, 33 other municipalities, and densely populated unincorporated communities-has the power to make or break its cities. For 50 years, the county has applied its state-sponsored Home Rule Charter policy to grant or deny cityhood to a community wishing to incorporate and thus gain control over their local tax base. Implemented during rapid urbanization in the postwar economic boom of the late 1940s, the policy has created public concerns about inequalities across the county. Members of wealthier communities, for instance, have said that they resent what they consider the subsidizing of poorer areas in the county, peeling away to form their own governments and thereby decreasing tax revenue available to the entire county and limiting available resources to narrow geographies. Meanwhile, established cities expand their tax bases by annexing desirable adjacent land, a process often contested by residents and businesses in unincorporated areas that are then forced to pay added fees and taxes.Debate about incorporation policies in Miami-Dade County has emerged as an important topic of public dialogue amid immense development in Miami's downtown, the county's coastal communities, and the western suburbs (Bandell, 2013). Such city-making (Frug, 2001)-the policies, processes, and rhetoric applied to shape dominant public understandings of geography-intersects with press coverage of public policy in a region of 2.5 million people, as news narratives over the past 60 years have been an integral part of how those in power position themselves in the debate. Amid rapid population growth and changes in land use in Miami-Dade County, county officials began in 2011 to examine long-standing rules about incorporation and annexation; in 2012, officials created a task force charged with evaluating a number of incorporation and annexation proposals that had been brought before the County Commission in the previous year. These moments of policy-making in Miami-Dade County provide an opportunity to examine how a dominant voice of the mainstream press in Miami-the Miami Herald-communicates issues related to governance of geography. As public policy research indicates, policy-making revolves around interactions and rhetoric among key players in governance and is rooted...