ABSTRACT
This chapter offers Perla Trevizo's encouragement and wisdom about the path to being a reporter, a broadcaster, an editor or a media professional. Twelve years into Trevizo's career, she increasingly finds herself having to defend 'the media'. Her job, and her personal goal, was to introduce readers to the newcomers they were seeing around their neighborhoods and the new languages they were hearing at the supermarket, changes that in some small towns had led to ordinances that limited how many people live in a single house, how many cars can be parked outside a home, or state bills requiring English to be the official language. She wanted to give people what they needed to make an informed decision. While the fate of the print industry remains in flux, now is not the time to avoid going into journalism because the future is uncertain. On the contrary, it's an opportunity to work together to shape a new future.
