“A Forum for All” The Fresno Bee’s bilingual online forum
A Forum for All
By Pat Ford
Pew Center
Editors, publishers, webmasters, California Highway Patrolmen and California Assemblyman Dean Florez all came together for the first live bilingual forum on fresnobee.com, Dec. 8. But in the end, it was reporter Daniel Rodriquez who made it all possible.
Two fingers zinging across a keyboard in his self-taught typing style, Rodriquez simultaneously translated-English to Spanish or Spanish to English as required-and pounded out more than 30 questions so that the 1,500 people who “hit” the forum could learn how to make the ride to work safer for the poor and underrepresented farm workers of the San Joaquin Valley.