Library Guides: News and Newspapers: Latin America & the Caribbean: Radio & Video News

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Below you'll find a preliminary list of resources to search and find radio and video news pertaining to Latin America and the Caribbean.

This guide is a work-in-progress. Please feel free to email Rachel Stein with any suggestions for additional resources.

Stitcher
Stitcher is an on-demand Internet radio service that focuses on news and information radio and podcasts, with 65000+ searchable radio shows and podcasts. Use the search bar to look for content related to your research topic.
PRI (Public Radio International)
Public Radio International (PRI) is a global non-profit media company focused on the intersection of journalism and engagement to effect positive change in people’s lives. Its products include national radio programs such as PRI’s The World®, The Takeaway, and Studio 360®; the website PRI.org; podcasts such as World in Words and Otherhood; and story initiatives such as Across Women’s Lives (documenting the power of women to improve their communities), Global Nation (revealing America’s changing population and issues facing its growing immigrant population), and Global Security (examining international security through the eyes of millennials). Use the search bar to look for content related to your research topic across PRI products.

Radio Ambulante
Radio Ambulante is a Spanish-language podcast, distributed by NPR, that tells Latin American stories from anywhere Spanish is spoken, including the United States. Though episodes are in Spanish, they provide transcriptions into English and sometimes Portuguese on their website. In 2014, Radio Ambulante was awarded the Gabriel García Márquez Prize for Innovation in Journalism, the most prestigious journalism honor in Latin America.
Latino USA
Latino USA is a nationally syndicated public radio program produced by The Futuro Media Group and distributed nationwide by National Public Radio. Its focus is Latinxs and Latin American immigrants in the U.S.
Code Switch
Program centered on issues of race and identity, which sometimes covers immigration and Latinx stories.

KGLA Tropical 1540 AM (Radio)
KGLA is the first and only Hispanic owned and operated Spanish radio station in Louisiana. Programming includes a variety of Latin music as well as news, sports, weather, sports and religious programming.
Latino Mix 97.5FM KGLA 830 AM Radio
Bilingual station out of Metarie, LA.

Latin American & Spanish Videos Freely Available on the Internet: A Guide to Web Resources
This excellent guide to finding Latin American & Spanish film, TV, and video allows you to search by subject and browse by country/region. Created by Jesús Alonso-Regalado, Librarian for Latin American/Hispanic Studies at SUNY-Albany.
Spanish Language Television - UT San Antonio Guide
List of major Spanish language TV stations with online video content from the UT San Antonio Libraries.

AP Archive
AP Archive is the film and video archive of The Associated Press -- the world's largest and oldest news agency - on YouTube. The collection offers over 1.7 million global news and entertainment video stories, which date back to 1895. New material is added every day.

American History in Video
American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Access thousands of audio and video recordings preserved and digitized by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in collaboration with WGBH and the Library of Congress. Over 68,000 media items representing 40,000 hours of radio and television are available to researchers.
British Movietone
British Movietone’s newsreel archive (1895 to 1986), available online via YouTube, contains coverage of news events, celebrities, sports, music, social history, science, lifestyles and the quirky from around the world
British Pathé
British Pathé was at the forefront of cinematic journalism, blending information with entertainment to popular effect. Over the course of a century, it documented everything from major armed conflicts and seismic political crises to the curious hobbies and eccentric lives of ordinary people. Now considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world, British Pathé is a treasure trove of 85,000 films unrivaled in their historical and cultural significance.
Open Vault (WGBH)
Free access to video and audio recordings of shows covering historically significant events broadcast by the public television station WGBH. Transcripts, images, and resource management tools are also available through this database.