El TĂmpano
El TĂmpano informs, engages, and amplifies the voices of Oakland’s Latino and Mayan immigrants.
Website http://www.eltimpano.org
Directory Profile https://findyournews.org/organization/el-timpano/
Tagline El TĂmpano informs, engages, and amplifies the voices of Oakland’s Latino and Mayan immigrants.
Mission Through innovative approaches to local journalism and civic engagement, El TĂmpano surfaces community members’ stories, questions, and concerns on local and national issues, and provides information relevant to their needs. Throughout 2020 and 2021, El TĂmpano’s Spanish-language SMS reporting platform has disseminated vital news, information, and resources on COVID-19 to the communities most impacted locally by the current public health and economic crises. Since the start of the pandemic, our audience has quadrupled. Today nearly 10% of Oakland’s Spanish-speaking households subscribe, and in the past year, one in two subscribers has written in with a question, a story, or words of gratitude for keeping them informed. We’re just getting started and are pursuing growth in 2022 to grow our newsroom, train hundreds more immigrants to halt the spread of misinformation, launch our Mam language service to better serve Oakland’s indigenous Mayan immigrants, and expand our footprint to the wider Bay Area.
About By supporting El TĂmpano, you are supporting our vision of equitable information access, of local journalism that serves and reflects the diversity of our communities, and of a Bay Area where every voice is valued.
City San Francisco
State / Region California
Country United States
Places Covered California, Antioch, Concord, Hayward, Oakland, Richmond, San Francisco
Languages English
Topics Equity, Health and medicine, Immigration, Refugees, Worker's Rights
Reach Local
Year Founded 2018
Source INN Find Your News directory