What was your first job as a journalist?
Technology reporter for a Venezuelan tech magazine.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes.
What does it mean to be a journalist?
At the end of the day, you're doing a public service.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Wordpress, Pinpoint, ChatGPT, SQL, NotebookLM, Notion, Audition, Lightroom, Photoshop, Streamyard, CapCut, Canva, Trello, InVID, Tabula.
What's your favorite social network?
It was Twitter... now I'm kind of an orphan.
Who do you wish followed you?
Christiane Amanpour
Why did you become a journalist?
I was in love with radio since I was a kid. Journalism gave me the chance to work on it and grow from it.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
No. There wasn't one.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
A lot of them, but one of them is producing and directing the documentary series La República que Tortura.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Always keep learning new ways of doing your work, and not only regarding technology, methodology or tools.
When's the best time to pitch you?
24/7
What's the best pitch you ever got?
To photograph the empty bedrooms left behind by Venezuelan migrants who left their country, and tell their stories from those empty spaces.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Can't remember!
What's your favorite drink?
Guava juice.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Technology reporter for a Venezuelan tech magazine.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
New York Times
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That you have to take sides on the political discussion, or you're"attacking" someone or something just because your reporting on it.
