Welcome to El Deadline 2021
We are a bilingual pop-up newsroom covering Latino communities in Ñew York during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are part of the Spanish Bilingual Journalism Program at the Newmark-J School.
Meet our reporters and let us tell you more about our beats and the communities at the center of our coverage.
Pablo Álvarez is a bilingual reporter and fiction writer from Argentina pursuing a career in journalism. Prior to starting the Master’s journalism program at CUNY, Pablo graduated from The City College of New York with a B.A. in Spanish Literature. Later he received an M.F.A. from New York University in Spanish Creative Writing and has a column at CNYLatino. This semester he is focusing on housing issues and the homelessness crisis impacting the Latinx community.
Roberto Bolanos Pinela is a journalist with a concentration in broadcast journalism. He has been a paralegal helping the Latino Community with immigration cases and family cases for more than six years. Since last fall, he has worked with DocumentedNY’s Spanish Section, where he writes the weekly newsletter “Documented Semanal.” You’ll most likely find him at the gym powerlifting or being loud at a music studio playing the drums.
Twitter: @Tito_Vicente89
Moses Bustos is a first-generation New Yorker of Nicaraguan descent raised in the Bronx during the 1990s. Bustos is now based in Harlem and is studying journalism. He has a particular interest in investigating the many faces of survival among low-income communities living through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Twitter: @bustosmoses
Dimitri Fautsch is a bilingual data reporter covering labor and the environment. He’s written for the Nostrand Avenue News and The Village Sun. After graduating from Northwestern University in 2014, he worked as a data analyst for an advertising-technology company in New Orleans. Originally from San Diego, he now lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Twitter: @dimitrifautsch
Bruce Gil is a bilingual journalist covering culture and health. He has written for a number of publications including Las Vegas Weekly, Desert Companion, and WhatMatters.com. After graduating from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he worked as a producer for KUNV’s public affairs show Our Metropolis and as an editorial and production assistant for the Emerge Impact + Music Conference.
Twitter: @brucgl
Jason Gonzalez is a Brooklyn born, Queens bred resident of the Bronx, and freelance journalist for the past 16 years. His expertise lies in the area of sports, current events, and arts & entertainment. He completed his undergraduate degree at Long Island University [Bklyn Campus] and his master’s at Pace University. His work can be read in The Ring [magazine], RingTV.Com, The Bronx Free Press, NYSportsDay.Com, Maxboxing.Com, TheBronxChronicle.Com, Mott Haven Herald and Hunts Point Express.
Sara Hershander is a freelance reporter, she’s covered mutual aid, food insecurity, and labor organizing in Central Queens, NY, and is currently an intern for WBAI Radio 99.5FM. She has a B.A. in International Relations from Boston University, and previously worked in refugee services and education in Mexico City and Santiago, Chile, as well as homeless services in New York City. Sara is pursuing a dual concentration in Spanish-language journalism and International Reporting at Newmark J-School.
Twitter: @SaraHerschander
Rommel Ojeda is a freelance bilingual journalist and documentarian. His works can be seen in DocumentedNY, CUNY TV, QueensChronicle, and more. A Summa Cum Laude graduate of Baruch College, he received a BA in Journalism and Creative Writing, with a minor in Film. His short film “RECOLLECTION,” an interpersonal piece exploring the anxiety in New York brought by the COVID19 pandemic, is an official selection for the San Diego Consortium Quarantine Film Challenge. He was awarded the Harnisch Foundation Scholarship for outstanding students committed to a career in Journalism, and the 2019 Roslyn Bernstein prize for Cultural Reporting. He was also a honoree for the SABEW19 BIB award for best collaboration in reporting.
Twitter: @cestrommel
Juanita Ramos is a Colombian journalist with experience in reporting and production. She was political reporter for Colprensa and EL TIEMPO, the most important newspaper in Colombia. She was part of the team who covered the Peace Process between the FARC guerrillas, the government and the presidential elections. She migrated to New York in 2016 and for the past three years, she’s been part of the production team at New York Noticias, the only 24-hour local news network in Spanish related to Latino and immigrant communities in the city. She has also produced audiovisual pieces and texts on gender and migration.
Twitter: @juanitaramosa
