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Lorenzo Morales

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Bogota D.C.
Covers:  Armed Conflict, Environment, Corruption and Politics
Periodista / journalist. Autor de “Adentro: vida en Bogotá” y “Hechos para contar”. @cerosetenta @liganosilencio @Ceper_Uniandes

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Lorenzo Morales is a Colombian free-lance journalist, editor and professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. Lorenzo is currently the editor of the Fondo ODS , a fund to finance and mentor reporters in Latin America interested in reporting about sustainable development in the region.

Lorenzo was editor of Semana.com, the main political newsmagazine website in Colombia and producer of Colombia´s National Public Radio investigative unit. He worked as a reporter for El Diario La Prensa, …

What was your first job as a journalist?

Political reporter at revista Semana

Have you ever used a typewriter?

No

How is social media changing news?

It is interfering on the way media used to set the agenda.

Premio Gabo- (Premio Clemente Manuel Zabala)

2021 - Best Editor

Award to the best editor or editorial team in Latin América

Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar (Colombia)

2020 - Investigation

Award for best investigative story on video. Using open sources and forensic techniques, the story reconstructs the killing of a teenager by police forces during protests in Colombia. https://www.newsy.com/stories/colombian-police-fired-shot-that-killed-protester/

Scripps Howard Award

2019 - Innovation

I made part of the team that reported and produced one of the videos of the awarded series.