Profile of Orlando Sentinel’s HispanoSphere blog:

The Orlando Sentinel launched its HispanoSphere blog not long after the follow-up Sept. 2008 Parity Project town hall between Hispanic community leaders in Central Florida and the paper’s leadership.

It is the brainchild of Orlando Sentinel reporter and NAHJ member Víctor Manuel Ramos. Several of the community leaders at the town hall had wanted a way to learn about what was happening in Central Florida as well as the areas of the world where they are from, or descended from. Almost every part of Latin America is represented by Florida’s Hispanic population.

It was launched in Oct. 2008.

Here is a link to the Orlando Sentinel HispanoSphere blog: http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_hispanicaffairs.

Some stats on the HispanoSphere blog in its first year:

• More than 200,000 page views in its first year.
• One Orlando-area reader posted more than 500 comments to the blog during its first year.
• About 80 Hispanic community leaders took part in a “meet-up” to celebrate its first year in Oct. 2009.

 

The above profile has been produced by NAHJ student member and multimedia journalist Paula Machado.

She attends the University of Central Florida in Orlando, where she is set to graduate in the Spring of 2012. Paula was a participant in the 2010 NAHJ Student Campus program in Denver.

She has also interned Univision Orlando. Paula Machado is definitely a talented multimedia journalist to watch out for in the future. Check out her resume:

Paula Machado – ENG. – SPAN. – multimedia – TV reporter-producer – FL w-CO-SPAIN connect