EXPERIENCE
Reporter | Minnesota Public Radio St. Paul, MN | June 2008- present Cover breaking news for MPR's website and provide spots and short audio material for hourly newscasts. Coordinate with radio editors and reporters working in the field on a daily basis. Build a network of sources on beats traditionally not covered by public radio, including police and fire. Monitor websites and social media sites of regional news outlets. Pitch, write, edit and mix radio stories. Freelance additional radio and print pieces outside of work hours.
Staff Writer | The South Florida Sun-Sentinel Fort Lauderdale, FL | April 2005- June 2008 Covered a variety of topics as a city desk reporter, including local government, minority issues, general assignments and breaking news in print, audio and video formats for the newspaper, its website and radio partner, WXEL. Stories included migrant workers who refuse to go to hurricane shelters for fear of deportation and an exclusive hospital interview with one of three homeless men brutally attacked in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Coverage of Hurricane Wilma placed the paper as a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. Freelance Journalist | World Press Review, The Santiago Times , Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, The Miami Herald, Pulso, La Tercera Santiago, Chile | Feb.- Dec. 2004 Wrote for various publications and analyzed aspects of Chilean media for hemispheric journalism watchdogs. Story topics included money-laundering accusations against the late Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Chile’s divorce law and a feature on Bolivia’s “Day of the Sea.” Staff Writer | The Miami Herald Miami, FL | 2000- 2004 Worked as a part-time reporter covering the cities of Miami Lakes, Hialeah Gardens, Virginia Gardens, Medley and South Miami. Story topics included covering a 1,000-year-old historic site in a battle between developers and archaeologists and a city’s efforts to improve campaign finance laws. Intern | Voice of America, Latin Bureau Washington, D.C. | Summer 2002 Conducted live radio interviews with sources around the hemisphere, edited radio feeds, translated news wires from English to Spanish and co-produced an hour-long show entitled “Street Children in Latin America.” EDUCATION
Certificate in Contemporary Latin American Studies, 2004 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile Paper: “The New Role of the Armed Forces in Latin America vis-à-vis the human rights legacy: Chile and Argentina” B.S. in Communications, 2003 University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL Double major in Journalism and International Relations, with emphasis on regional integration, the European Union, MERCOSUR and development Exchange Program, 2002 American University of Paris, Paris, France
Area of Concentration: The European Union LANGUAGES AND OTHER SKILLS
- Fluent in English and Spanish - Conversational French, beginning Portuguese - Writing, reporting and editing for radio using Adobe Audition, ProTools, Soundtrack Pro and Audacity - Basic video editing skills using Final Cut Pro - Amateur photographer, with functional knowledge of Adobe Photoshop - Daily use of AP's ENPS News Production System - Working knowledge of various Content Management Systems, including Joomla!, WordPress and other in-house systems - Intermediate Computer Assisted Reporting skills, Lexis-Nexis - Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, Dreamweaver and Flash MEMBERSHIPS
National Association of Hispanic Journalists (since 2003)
Association of Independents in Radio (since 2008) AWARDS
March 2009 Honorable Mention, 2008 Minnesota AP Broadcasters Awards Award in feature category for "Speaking without an accent" November 2007 FBI Citizens' Academy, Miami October 2007 Hispanic HIV Leadership Award, Broward County Health Department and the HIV/AIDS Minority Network Award for coverage of HIV/AIDS issues in Broward’s Latino and gay communities May 2007 Knight New Media Center Multimedia Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley 2007 First Place, Florida Society of Newspaper Editors Team award for coverage of homeless beatings in downtown Fort Lauderdale 2004 Inter-American Press Association Fellowship, Santiago, Chile
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