Welcome to El Deadline: This is what we are doing, why and how
Let us tell you about our beats, team and the Latino communities at the center of our coverage in Spanish and English. We are a bilingual pop up newsroom and we are here to listen and report with and for you. El Deadline is made in Ñew York City by professionals at the Spanish language program in the Newmark-J School at CUNY.
We are a newsroom of ten reporters covering Washington Heights, Sunset Park, East Harlem and the South Bronx.
Meet our reporters and let us tell you more about our beats and the communities at the center of our coverage.
Pamela Subizar is a New York City-based reporter from Argentina. She holds a BA in Social Communication and Journalism. During her studies, she developed and tested a model to analyze news quality. Upon graduation, she worked as a reporter for newspapers based in Cordoba and Buenos Aires. In 2016, Pamela moved to the U.S. and worked as a foreign correspondent, reporting about social and political issues, and then collaborated with the independent media organization Democracy Now! Pamela came to CUNY to learn about data storytelling and photography, and to explore new ways in which journalism can drive social development.
Noelis Ciriaco is a niuyorquina by birth and Dominicana in her heart. She studied at City College of New York, where she obtained a B.A in Spanish. She is interested in telling stories using numbers and data and is passionate about helping to diversify newsrooms.
Natalia Rodríguez Medina was born and raised in Puerto Rico, she graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus with a B.A. in Journalism and a focus in French. She moved to New York City to pursue an M.A. in Bilingual Journalism, with a second concentration in Health & Science Journalism. She specializes in women’s reproductive health, sexual education and taboos that follow women.
Michael Krumholtz is a bilingual journalist reporting on the medical tourism pipeline from New York City to plastic surgeons in the Dominican Republic. Prior to starting the Master’s journalism program at CUNY, Michael worked for English-language outlets in Costa Rica and Colombia, where he covered crime, sports, and politics. This semester he is focused on Washington Heights.
Maggie Veatch is a public health expert currently pursuing a career in journalism. Maggie has led research in Mexico, the Caucuses and Indonesia. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador. She has expertise in obesity prevention, racial inequities, early childhood, and maternal health. If you live in Sunset Park you are likely to come across with her, while she reports about the impact of industrial real estate investments in the area.
Karina Meier was born and raised in Lima, Peru. She attended her undergraduate studies at University of Lima, where she majored in communications with an emphasis in film. During her time there, she interned as a social media manager and then an assistant producer. After graduation, she took up an internship at Washington D.C’s Scripps Howard office, where she worked as a multimedia reporter. She then returned to Lima to work as a producer in current affairs documentaries, where she got the chance to collaborate in productions made by the BBC, Al Jazeera and Discovery Channel.
Jo Bruni is a Venezuelan journalist. Her early training was as a musician. While in college she became interested in politics and policy. And for many years she pursued a career as an academic at IESA, a school of public and private administration in Caracas, Venezuela, and published several academic papers while pursuing national and international research projects. Now she focuses on telling stories about Latino communities in New York, particularly in Sunset Park: an area that is changing at a fast pace in where she reports with and for its inhabitants, recording what goes on with their lives and struggles.
Cristina Corujo Oruña is a bilingual and business reporter covering Puerto Rico’s economy, and the correlation between respiratory diseases, like asthma, and air pollution in the South Bronx. She was born and raised in Puerto Rico. During her undergraduate studies in Communication and Theatre, she worked in a communications agency, where she specialized in social media and production. After finishing her degree, she started working in Noticentro (WAPA TV) as an assistant producer.
Brenda León is a bilingual reporter in New York City, with a background in computer science. She studied multimedia journalism at Lehman College and is currently pursuing an M.A. at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, where she focuses on Spanish-language journalism. She has worked with various non profit grassroots organizations to provide communities with media and arts education.
Cristian Arroyo-Santiago was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He is a bilingual reporter covering health and climate. Back in the Island, he worked for newspapers like Diálogo as an arts and culture reporter, and El Nuevo Día as the opinion pages editor and news contributor. In 2016, he was awarded a fellowship by the Gabriel García Márquez’s Foundation for New Journalism. The following year, after Hurricane Maria devastated the island, he worked as a freelance producer and reporter for CNN and NBC News.
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