ABOUT ME

Andrés Cavelier is the founder and president of FastrackMedia, Inc., a consulting firm specialized in digital content strategies and online communities in the Latin market.

He writes a new media column for Portafolio, Colombia’s leading financial newspaper and is an advisor at Gato Communications.

Andrés writes about the future of digital journalism in this blog, which he started during his year as Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (2007-2008).

He has worked as a print, television and online journalist in the United States and Latin America. As Multimedia Manager for El Nuevo Herald (Miami), the second-largest Spanish daily newspaper in the US, he led the revamping of ElNuevoherald.com and the integration between the print and online production teams.

He first started working in the digital sphere in 2000 as Chief Content Officer for Grupo de Diarios America (GDA.com). Prior to that, he worked as New York and Washington Correspondent for El Tiempo, Colombia’s largest daily newspaper, and was Washington Correspondent for RCN Television. Andres got started in the business as a sportswriter in Colombia and as metro beat reporter for La Opinión Spanish daily in Los Angeles.

Andrés has a Masters in International Relations and Communications from Boston University (1995) and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Kansas University (1990).

He lives in Washington, DC.

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ABOUT THIS BLOG

Welcome. This blog is an effort to explore the future of New Media and Digital Journalism in the Americas. Written in both English and Spanish, this interactive space is geared to journalists, media owners, students, educators, policymakers and others interested in developing, distributing and marketing high quality digital content for audiences in Latin America, Spain and the US Hispanic market.

Topics of interest include: new forms of digital content; traditional, online and digital journalism; online narrative journalism; online gaming; newsroom integration; text, image, audio and video convergence; citizen journalism; business models; marketing techniques; and delivery platforms.

An effective forum about information and news cannot operate in a vacuum. As an experiment, this blog follows closely some of the most pressing issues shaping relations between the United States and Latin American countries, with the goal of learning how to use the latest multimedia applications to covering a particular field of interest. I welcome any ideas you might have regarding this experiment.