The Center for Community Media at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism invited community and ethnic media publishers, journalists and broadcasters to a forum on January 28, 2026, to discuss how Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s then-new administration was engaging with their sector in its first month in office, according to the center.

The gathering, billed as an NYC Community Media Cafecito Conversation, was scheduled to run from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in Room 308 of the school at 219 West 40th St. in Manhattan. The center said it would be an off-the-record, facilitated session intended to give participants a space to share experiences and exchange ideas on collective strategies for the sector’s shared challenges.