These are some links to some vital articles which I am collecting and thinking about.  They may or may not be of interest to you, but it could help some of my own research.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/science/31conversation.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwvaJnTyAt8

What I can extract from all of these opinion and news pieces is that languages are important in general; however, I am still looking for articles proving languages and their importance in Journalism.  It is constant that Spanish is the second most used language in the United States and the world.  I would also like to add that Arabic is also important as it is the language of 1 billion Muslisms and has dialects of Arabic in more than 100 countries in the Middle East.