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Fernando Hurtado

  • Founder, In The Hyphen
  • Adjunct Faculty Instructor, University of Southern California
Los Angeles
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Video journalist building In The Hyphen | Ex-NBC | @USC adjunct | LA TV Week 40 Under 40 | De Chicago para el mundo
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What Ive learned one year into being a creator journalist

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By Fernando Hurtado
| MSN Verified
Editors note: This post is part of News From Creatorland, a column where journalist and creator Fernando Hurtado shares learnings and observations from the frontlines of creator journalism. In January 2025, I left my job at NBCUniversal. Id spent five years working with the companys NBC and Telemundo stations, producing national digital video content. It was my dream job for much of that time, until I started getting the itch to launch my own venture.
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Newsrooms Will Finally Let Employees Be Creators On The Side

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By Fernando Hurtado
| TVNewsCheck Verified
Journalists are leaving — or being forced to leave — legacy TV newsrooms. And plenty who haven’t left are thinking about it. In conversations with current employees, the main reason I’ve heard is that they want to try striking out on their own, similar to how people like CNN’s Oliver Darcy and The Washington Post’s Dave Jorgenson have done in the last couple of years. The No. 1 thing holding the people I’ve spoken with back? Fear. Fear of leaving the financial stability of a 9-to-5 behind.
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The YouTubification Of Local News Is Here

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By Fernando Hurtado
| TVNewsCheck Verified
Editor’s note: This post is part of News From Creatorland, a column where journalist and creator Fernando Hurtado shares learnings and observations from the frontlines of creator journalism.
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