Sin Maletas, a collaborative, independent and cross-border journalistic work became the
first journalistic investigation on refugees born in Latin America. Throughout its pages, the reader can get involved in different displacement stories from around the world.
Revista OJO
Revista Ojo was a cultural, college-oriented printed magazine based in Caracas, Venezuela.
Originally, its website served two purposes: to replicate the content of the bi-monthly printed issues, and to present an editorial complement between editions with notes about cinema, music, literature and educational opportunities, among others.
However, by 2013 paper and ink were becoming scarce goods in Venezuela, and printing became a logistical challenge and a financial burden.
We then turned our efforts and transformed a secondary product into an equally important editorial priority.
The main goals were to improve our numbers for both new and frequent visits, create an independent yet adjacent editorial product from the printed magazine, and to incorporate new topics to our discussions.This editorial redesign as well as its social media and digital distribution strategy were conceived by me.
Content now represented our new and remaining sections and served specific purposes. To avoid publishing for the sake of posting, I created a weekly-based editorial planning system that allowed us to plan ahead and still incorporate anything relevant that could come up during this timeframe.
Some topics I incorporated were clear and obvious stands against governmental censorship. In 2013, writing about the economy and the currency exchange was borderline illegal and we still published features addressing these specific points, for example. However, for broader issues, we leaned towards a Trojan-horse approach.
In the international's section focus topics, for example, we chose to address issues that were talking the center stage of discussions abroad but were, at the core, highly relevant for the Venezuelan context. Democracy in Ukraine, the Arab Spring, the Referendum in South Sudan, LGBT+ rights in Russia, Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, for example,
allowed us to introduce broader topics like democracy, gender issues, pacific protesting, LGBT+ rights, and socio-economic development without specifically addressing what could get us in trouble with CONATEL (in English) and in violation of the additions of digital media to the Resorte Law (in English).
This strategy proved effective, and eventually OJO’s digital product was able to openly transition the discussion to domestic issues that tackled the aforementioned concepts we had been discussing through other' countries experiences before.
WTCA
The World Trade Centers Association stimulates trade and investment opportunities for commercial property developers, economic development agencies, and international businesses looking to connect globally and prosper locally. To foster a sense of community within a global network of operations, WTCA publishes Meridian™ to communicate with members, promote events and initiatives and provide insightful information about WTCs around the world.