In individual Q&A sessions with reporters and editors from the community and ethnic press, organized by the Center for Community and Ethnic Media (CCEM) at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, mayoral candidates answered questions about how their administrations would handle the current dearth of advertising dollars spent by the city on the more than 270 ethnic and local media outlets in New York.<\/p>\n
CCEM released a report in March that found the city spends $18 million every year in newspaper ads that promote issues such as health and education. Only $3.2 million of that, or about 18 percent, is earmarked for community and ethnic publications, which together, have a total circulation of 4.5 million, or 55 percent of the city’s population. CCEM executive director Garry Pierre-Pierre, who moderated the eight Q&A sessions over the last three weeks, asked each candidate if they planned on addressing the discrepancy which potential leaves millions of New Yorkers out of the loop about city policies and programs that affect them.<\/p>\n
John Liu<\/strong> The city comptroller elaborated during his Q&A session, saying that the issue of \u201cinequities of city spending\u201d had never left his mind after first engaging in the subject four years ago. Like his rivals, Liu looked at the bigger picture of the importance of transmitting information out to New Yorkers.<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s not about the dollars and it’s not about the news outlets,\u201d he said. \u201cIt’s about how best to get official information from the city out to everybody in New York City and the reality is not everybody reads the New York Times or the Daily News or the New York Post \u2026 people read a lot of other literature and other newspapers.\u201d He said he has relatively limited options as comptroller because most of the ads his office places are in financial publications like Pensions & Investments, but that things would be different if he’s elected mayor.<\/p>\n \u201cI would have far more control over what the commissioner and the various agencies are doing and I think I have a particular sensitivity in terms of how best to get information from City Hall and the various city agencies to everybody in the city of New York.\u201d<\/p>\n Anthony 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\nLike Thompson, Democrat John Liu responded to the CCEM report after its release in March: \u201cWe must do much, much better,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n
\nFormer Congressman Anthony Weiner came out in support of increasing the ad money the city spends in community outlets but took issue with the question.<\/p>\n