On a TEDx stage, Mariana Atencio explained her role as a journalist is to “make people care.” Finding the facts is not enough for her; she has to establish an emotional connection between the subject and the viewer. And perhaps…
The journalistic practice of fact checking the statements and discourses of politicians is currently multiplying as a response to the flood of fake news. Journalists often call this method a “lie detector”. The perfect ocassion for several US media outlets…
La práctica de la verificación periodística (fact checking) de las comparecencias de los políticos se multiplica en estos tiempos frente al torrente de noticias falsas. Los suelen llamar “detectores de mentiras”. Una ocasión para que varios medios de prensa estadounidenses…
Since 1997, Monica Zalaquett, a Chilean journalist and psychologist who emigrated to Nicaragua more than 40 years ago, has been working to dismantle gang violence by focusing on what she considers its root: machismo. For her, machismo is “a pathology,…
Desde 1997, Mónica Zalaquett, una periodista y psicóloga chilena emigrada a Nicaragua hace más de 40 años, se dedica a desmantelar la violencia en las pandillas con el foco en lo que considera su raíz: el machismo. El machismo es…
Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, and moved to the United States when he was ten years old. There, he grew up in Washington Heights, New York City, which is included in New York’s 13th congressional district, which he serves…
Darlene Lebron and Sandra Negron live in New York City, are Puerto Rican descents and wear plus sizes. For years, each one of them separately has dedicated themselves to promoting the beauty and style of fashion for bodies and shapes…
Darlene Lebrón y Sandra Negrón viven en Nueva York, tienen origen puertorriqueño y visten tallas grandes. Desde hace años, cada una por separado, se han dedicado a impulsar la belleza y el estilo de la moda para cuerpos y formas…
Más de 5 millones de venezolanos han abandonado su país desde el año 2000, un año después que Hugo Chávez asumió el poder. La mayor parte de estos migrantes lo ha hecho en los últimos 5 años, como consecuencia de…
Maritza González Cintrón has not slept in her home in the Quebrada de Guayanillas neighborhood since the earthquake on January 7th, one of the thousands in the sequence of tremors that have impacted southern Puerto Rico since Dec. 28, 2019.…