ImpreMedia is proud to bring you En Breve, your intelligence brief on the US Hispanic market and media. ImpreMedia is the parent company of El Diario La Prensa, El Mensajero, La Opinión, La Prensa and La Raza, the leading Spanish-language newspapers.
In this issue, read about:

The importance of an early education for Latino families
A recent poll conducted by the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute and released by PreK Now showed that more than 95% of Hispanics consider very important to attend pre-k program before kindergarten at the early ages. Some of the key findings on the research were that a majority of Latino families believe that children can have a better educational advantage if they attend pre-k.
Source: Changing the Face of Early Education, HispanicAd.com, July 2006

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Topics include: back-to-school (08/13), Hispanic heritage (10/22), new car preview (10/22), diabetes awareness (11/05), Thanksgiving, a retail gift guide (12/03) and the Three Kings celebration (12/31).
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2006 Hispanic Fact Pack
Advertising Age just recently released their third annual Hispanic Fact Pack presenting information about ad spending by category and company, demographic trends, rankings for the leading TV, radio newspaper, magazine and online, among other important data. This report also shows the double-digit amount growth among advertisers targeting the Hispanic market.
Source: 2006 Ad Age Hispanic Fact Pack, AdAge.com, July 2006

Hispanic teenage girls and their social pressures
A recent article about the US, Hispanic teenage girls, published on the Spanish-language New York newspaper El Diario La Prensa, stated that young Latinas have more suicidal tendencies than any other group. Other research found that especially in first generation Latinas that faced different social pressures are also likely to have the same tendencies.
Source: Young Latinas and a Cry for Help, NewYorkTimes.com, July 2006
Alarming attempted suicide rate among Hispanic teenage girls, El Diario La Prensa, July 12, 2006

La Opinión's 80th Anniversary Fiestas Commemorative Supplement

La Opinión is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year. For the past eight decades, we have been committed to informing our readers, serving our community and providing the best customer service to our clients. On September 8, 2006 La Opinión will publish a special commemorative fiestas supplement that will be distributed to over half a million readers in Southern California. It will highlight the independence celebrations of Latin American countries and the past 80 years of La Opinión history. It will complement an in-paper special series about Hispanic leaders. The supplement will also be published online. Space close date is August 25th.
To learn more about this program, please contact your account executive or call 213-896-2380 or visit http://corp.laopinion.com

Relevance of the Women Migration
According to Pew Hispanic Center, women from different regions of the world have been migrating for the past decades becoming a significant migrant group. This report also remarks that the profile of the arrival of the female immigrant to the U.S. has changed significantly, they are now more educated, older and less probable to have children.
Source: Gender and Migration, PewHispanic.org, July 2006

Minority Advertising to ensure a fair share of federal advertising contracts
The federal government, in spite of a law intended to redirect resources to minority owned media, has not assigned a proportionate amount of resources to promote federal initiatives directed to minority owned companies. Therefore a Congress representative requested to the General Accounting Office a study to guarantee minority firms a fair allocation of federal advertising contracts.
Source: Study on Minority Advertising to Determine Equality on Federal Outreach for Minorities, NAHP.org, July 2006

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