Hot issues at Hispanic media convention

“As many as 2,000 reporters and editors will descend on Fort Lauderdale in the next few days for the annual Hispanic journalists convention. And they won’t just come to soak up sun at the beach and kick around Las Olas Boulevard.

The immigration debate dominating national discourse, the Cuba issue eating at Miami’s Cuban exile soul, and the future of the volatile news industry are three themes that promise to inject edge into the event.

The convention kicks off tonight when Columbia University professor and New York Times contributor Mirta Ojito is scheduled to interview Ricardo Alarcón, president of Cuba’s National Assembly, before an audience of several hundred. Alarcón will appear via satellite from CNN’s Havana bureau, and the audience of journalists will be allowed to submit questions through Ojito, a Cuban exile.”

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