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Podcast: The Cosmopolitan
Episode: Liliana López Ruelas: Building Community in Tucson´s News Desert
Description: Podcast: Journal of the Southwest RadioEpisode: Liliana López Ruelas: Building Community in Tucson´s News DesertPub date: 2025-10-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn April 25, 2023, a phone call from an out-of-state number ended La Estrella de Tucsón, leaving the city without a Spanish-language newspaper. For Liliana López Ruelas, who had spent years as an editor there, it was a moment of frustration—but also of determination.
Host Carlos Quintero speaks with Liliana about what happened next: a return to school...