![]() Just as Jambalaya is there to support the New Orleans community, the audience supports the outlet too. “We are trying to understand what is really happening to help people to take care of themselves,” said Chief Operating Officer Rocio Tirado. Nearly 20,000 people watched two Facebook Live broadcasts, posing anxious questions in Spanish: Why did the governor say construction workers are essential, won’t we get sick? What happens if I own my own gardening service, can I work? And if we can’t work, how do they expect us to pay our bills? Their microphones, which they had shared the day before with two evangelical churches that broadcast virtual services from their studios, were covered with paper towels. On the Sunday in March that the Louisiana governor issued a stay-at-home order, Jambalaya was so inundated by calls that the staff took to Facebook Live and their digital radio station repeatedly to explain it to the local Latino community. This women-run organization is having to regroup yet again, as it pumps out almost non-stop coverage of the coronavirus as the only local Spanish-language news outlet for the growing immigrant community in New Orleans. First, after Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans in 2005, then in the fall of 2019 when a fire ripped through the outlet’s cramped three-room office tucked into a strip mall of tattoo parlors, hair salons and travel agencies.īut the uncertainty of covering coronavirus is like nothing Jambalaya’s founders have experienced before. Jambalaya News had already been reborn twice after disaster. Jambalaya News Founder and Editor Brenda Murphy produces a live talk show.
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