Personal
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How I Survived the Great Storm (and Made it to Work on Time)
[Published on Qué Pasa, December 31, 2010] [Continue reading on Qué Pasa]
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The Chile Media Tour
Last Thursday I was on NPR’s Tell Me More and Mediaite Office Hours (beggining at 40:00) to talk about the incredible rescue of the 33 trapped Chilean miners and its impact on Chilean politics and national pride. (And yes, that’s me on the picture feeling proud after cracking a joke at the expense of Eliot…
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Barcelona / Linguamón
DURING THE LAST DAYS OF APRIL, I visited Barcelona invited by Fundación Linguamón, an organization of the Generalitat de Catalunya devoted to the promotion of multilingualism. There I learned of their House of Languages project, and produced packages on languages and immigration for NY1 Noticias.
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Brooklyn Inn
[Published on Pie Derecho, May 2010] A VECES PIENSO que el mejor bar del mundo está en mi barrio. Ahí, en una cuadra en la que los locales comerciales de la calle Smith parecen haberse acabado y el barrio se transforma en los brownstones de Boerum Hill, en un edificio residencial se asoma titilando el letrero…
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After the Earthquake
At 3:34 a.m. on Saturday, February 27, when the fifth-strongest earthquake ever recorded hit a large area of Chile, I was sleeping with my wife in a hostel of Pucón, a beautiful town in the Lake District of the country. Even when Pucón didn’t receive the strongest impact of the earthquake and we suffered no…
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New Blog: Tinta Idiota
Just as if I had unlimited free time on my hands instead of none, I have decided to start a new blog on media. Tinta Idiota is a blog in Spanish about the digital revolution and journalists I admire and loath. Why “idiot ink”? Because, paraphrasing Hölderlin, we are geniuses when we think, but idiots when we write.…
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Pie Derecho and the Mutant Latino
My friend Norberto Bogard, editor of monthly Latino-culture-in-NY magazine Pie Derecho, came to NY1 Noticias’ Pura Política to talk with Angelo Falcón (another person I admire in the Latino politics/media scene of New York) to discuss the state of Hispanic affairs and national politics. Norberto —with whom I collaborate in Pie Derecho— had the kindness…
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From the Pages of El Mercurio
[Translation of text published by Chilean newspaper El Mercurio, as part of an article on Chileans living in New York. For the Spanish version, click on the image above.] We all came to New York to try our luck, attracted to the myth of the city: the spell of its skyscrapers, the scenes from our…
José Manuel Simián 