Fuente Latina

Israel doesn’t have a Spanish news network, and U.S. Latino media networks don’t have any correspondents in Israel. This gap in reporting is being filled by Fuente Latina, which works to ensure that global Spanish- language media and influencers have the facts they need—before and when the news breaks—to accurately cover Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish world. The word fuente translates to “source”; fittingly FL is the number one source for Latino media covering Israel. Small but mighty, FL actively facilitates media stories for 600 million Spanish speakers worldwide. 

FL has offices in Jerusalem, Madrid, and Miami, and in 2018 it will add Los Angeles. Since its founding in 2012,  FL has reached more than 267 million Latino readers, viewers, and listeners. How does this organization do such big work? It’s not just that it’s available 24/7 as news breaks, it’s also that it helps journalists increase the quality of their news coverage. FL has readily available media packages with fact sheets, translations, press kits, and multimedia materials in Spanish. When significant events happen, FL connects networks to Skype and telephone interviews, or in-studio interviews with Spanish-speaking experts. Journalists can use resources from FL’s Jerusalem office—photographers, videographers, and on-camera interviews. FL’s one-week ground-tour trips to Israel educate media and newsmakers about the country, and in six years, FL has bought more than 200 journalists to Israel. The hard work of FL pays o  when it can celebrate major successes like an hour-long CNN interview with Latino Jewish leaders, broad coverage of the papal visit to Israel, and more than 100 published op-eds, both online and in print, on Israel in Spanish and English. It recently helped Univision win an Emmy. In 2018, FL will expand its work to the West Coast, Northeast, Chicago, and Texas markets as it continues being a source of truth for Spanish- language news networks when it comes to covering Israel.