{"id":51235,"date":"2017-03-09T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-hitn-named-social-good-leader-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T13:28:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T17:28:49","slug":"hitn-es-reconocido-como-buen-lider-social-del-ano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/hitn-es-reconocido-como-buen-lider-social-del-ano\/","title":{"rendered":"HITN Named Social Good Leader Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">BROOKLYN, N.Y.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 9, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/&#8211; <b>HITN<\/b>, a non-profit organization with a Spanish-language media network that provides educational and entertainment programming to more than 44 million households around <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>, was awarded Cynopsis Media&#8217;s Social Good Leader award for its innovative <i>Tu Momento 2016<\/i> campaign.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg02deleft\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg02deleft\" title=\"HITN Inks a Deal for Lifestyle Content\" border=\"0\" alt=\"HITN Inks a Deal for Lifestyle Content\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/344200\/hitn_logolarge_for_tv_logo_Logo.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><i>Tu Momento 2016<\/i>\u00a0(Your Moment 2016)\u00a0was an\u00a0educational and informational campaign designed\u00a0and produced by\u00a0<b>HITN<\/b>\u00a0to help Hispanics across the country better understand\u00a0the U.S. presidential election process. \u00a0The campaign, launched in <span class=\"xn-chron\">April 2016<\/span>, featured several educational videos released at pivotal moments and events over the course of the 2016 U.S. presidential election cycle. Veteran journalist and political commentator <span class=\"xn-person\">Gerson Borrero<\/span> served as host and the voice of\u00a0<i>Tu Momento.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;<\/b>What an honor to win this award and to be named the Social Good Leader of the year,&#8221; said\u00a0Mike Nieves, President and CEO of <b>HITN<\/b>. &#8220;Everyday, we continue to strive to do good work at\u00a0<b>HITN\u00a0<\/b>and it is our responsibility to deliver content to its audience so more Hispanics and Latinos understand that,\u00a0as Americans, we too\u00a0should have a voice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By using a combination of short vignettes designed with info-graphics,\u00a0along with\u00a0carefully crafted explanations by Borrero,\u00a0<b>HITN<\/b>\u00a0thoughtfully and successfully explained the complex and misunderstood process of picking a president\u00a0to its viewers &#8211; from who can be a candidate, to the Electoral College significance to the selection of superdelegates to the Democratic and Republican conventions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<i>Tu Momento 2016<\/i>\u00a0campaign\u00a0included interactive components for its viewers, including through the popular <i>Vive Tu Momento\u00a0<\/i>(Live Your Moment) contest. Participants were challenged to utilize their grasp of\u00a0the\u00a0presidential election and their understanding\u00a0of the Electoral College\u00a0to present predictions for state-by-state electoral outcomes. The prize &#8211;\u00a0a historic three-day, all-inclusive trip to <span class=\"xn-location\">Washington, DC<\/span> for the Presidential Inauguration in <span class=\"xn-chron\">January 2017<\/span> &#8211; would\u00a0go to the participant with the highest number of accurate predictions.<\/p>\n<p><b>HITN&#8217;s<\/b>\u00a0winner,\u00a0a first-time voter,\u00a0proved to be\u00a0more politically astute than the most experienced political consultants nationwide. She correctly predicted how 46 states would vote;\u00a0and attributed her success to the\u00a0<i>Tu Momento\u00a0<\/i>campaign. It was her commitment to a thorough search and a sound analysis that earned\u00a0this intelligent and diligent Latina a trip to <span class=\"xn-location\">Washington<\/span>, D.C.\u00a0for the 2017 Presidential Inauguration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HITN is honored\u00a0to be recognized for our groundbreaking series on educating Hispanics about the election process,&#8221; said\u00a0Gerson Borrero, host of\u00a0<b>HITN&#8217;s<\/b>\u00a0<i>Tu Momento 2016<\/i>. &#8220;<i>Tu Momento 2016\u00a0<\/i>was our first production toward offering this kind of programming,\u00a0and HITN will continue to create content that serves the interest of our growing audience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>HITN<\/b>\u00a0is the leading Spanish-language network focused on educational and cultural programing for the whole family. It reaches over 44 million homes across <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span> through DIRECTV, DISH Network, AT&amp;T U-verse TV, Verizon Fios TV, Comcast, Charter Spectrum, Frontier Mediacom, CenturyLink Prism, and Cablevision.\u00a0For more information, log in to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.hitn.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/344200\/hitn_logolarge_for_tv_logo_Logo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/344200\/hitn_logolarge_for_tv_logo_Logo.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">BROOKLYN, N.Y.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 9, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/&#8211; <b>HITN<\/b>, a non-profit organization with a Spanish-language media network that provides educational and entertainment programming to more than 44 million households around <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>, was awarded Cynopsis Media&#8217;s Social Good Leader award for its innovative <i>Tu Momento 2016<\/i> campaign.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg02deleft\">&lt;img id=&quot;prnejpg02deleft&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educacion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}