{"id":3619,"date":"2026-08-18T19:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/?post_type=pew-projects&#038;p=3619"},"modified":"2026-08-22T22:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T22:20:19","slug":"race-in-the-yakima-valley-yakima-wa-2000-partners","status":"publish","type":"pew-projects","link":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/pew-projects\/race-in-the-yakima-valley-yakima-wa-2000-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Race in the Yakima Valley, Yakima, WA 2000  Partners:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, sans-serif, arial;\">Yakima Herald-Republic<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, sans-serif, arial;\">Immigration has boosted the Hispanic presence in Yakima to 37 percent of the total population. The paper explored the resulting tensions and benefits in a seven-day series, &#8220;Race in the Yakima Valley,&#8221; Dec. 10-16, 2000. Reporters and editors worked with an ethnically diverse advisory committee to develop questions for a survey of 400 Hispanic and 400 non-Hispanic Yakima area residents. The paper also convened two focus groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, sans-serif, arial;\">The focus groups proved to be so rich in insight that the paper created what it called &#8220;Listening Post&#8221; assignments, requiring reporters to seek out sources never interviewed by the paper before in public places where people congregate. Reporters estimate they spoke to more than 300 people for the project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, sans-serif, arial;\">Some 80 people phoned or emailed the paper with mostly favorable comments. Yakima&#8217;s PBS station aired an hour-long discussion of the Herald-Republic&#8217;s stories and the issues involved on day six of the series. The series also inspired the dean of education at nearby Heritage College to look into organizing a round-table group to keep the discussion of race alive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, sans-serif, arial;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0033cc; font-family: helvetica, sans-serif, arial;\"><strong>Contact:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, sans-serif, arial;\">Bob Crider<br \/>\nManaging Editor<br \/>\nYakima Herald-Republic<br \/>\n114 N. 4th Street<br \/>\nYakima, WA 98901<br \/>\nPhone: (509) 577-7672<br \/>\nEmail:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060927084045\/mailto:bcrider@yakima-herald.com\">bcrider@yakima-herald.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"pew-categories":[144,134,178],"class_list":["post-3619","pew-projects","type-pew-projects","status-publish","hentry","pew-categories-144","pew-categories-race-relations","pew-categories-washington"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pew-projects\/3619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pew-projects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pew-projects"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pew-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pew-categories?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}