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The latest issue of FedEx’s Access Review magazine has my interview with Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez, who has irritated the island’s dictatorial regime with her blog Generación Y. Yoani was recently awarded the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot Prize by the Journalism School of Columbia University, but the Cuban government denied her permission to travel to…

The media tour president Obama did over the weekend to promote his health care reform was widely analyzed by all sorts of English language outlets. Yet, as you may have guessed, none of them covered what happened on Univisión, the “fifth network,” even when Jorge Ramos interview was outstanding. But to realize that, I had to…

My vignette of Manhattan’s High Line park, for revista Qué Pasa. Read here.

The new Qué Pasa magazine, a Chilean weekly, has a little column by yours truly on Martha’s Vineyard, the Massachusetts island where presidents try to feel like just another folk among the powerful. Read here.

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The second installment of my Meet the Prensa columns on Mediaite is online. In this interview, Nuyorican commentator Gerson Borrero reflects on his career, soap operas (“they make people stupid”), Fox News (“drive-by racists”), and Telemundo and Univisión (which he accuses of discriminating against Sonia Sotomayor). It started as a quiet radio talk show—a dialogue…

[Review of Depeche Mode’s concert at Madison Square Garden on August 3rd, published on El Mercurio]

Starting this week, I will be writing a column on Hispanic media for Mediaite entitled Meet the Prensa. In the first installment, I ask a question that has haunted me ever since I became a journalist: Why is there no Hispanic national media outlet—one that serves as standard of the highest writing and content—such as…