Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

• Supervises reporters covering public education, higher education, workforce pathways and urban affairs. • Leads a competitive team with a statewide reputation for producing authoritative journalism on the role of politics in education and housing policies. • Coordinates with audience and events teams to extend the reach and impact of our journalism beyond publication. • Leads an organization-wide task force to explore how the newsroom can better serve Latinx audiences.• Edits and translates content from English into Spanish, and vice versa, in special projects.

Austin, Texas, United States

• Edited and wrote stories and Spanish translations. • Monitored for breaking news and pitched story ideas for coverage, with a focus on incorporating diverse, audience-centric perspectives into the editorial process. • Updated KUT’s homepage and social media platforms. Workshopped headlines for accuracy and SEO.• Helped coach reporters on writing, storytelling and digital skills.• Helps edit audio content as needed.

Austin, Texas Area

• Edited, wrote and coordinated coverage on public safety, severe weather, metro and state news.• Updated stories online with emphasis on being competitive in the mobile market and breaking news first. • Collaborated with other newsroom departments to integrate photos, video, graphics, data and social media promotion into coverage. • Managed Facebook, Twitter and mobile alerts.• Monitored web traffic using data analytics; audited newsroom’s response time using Twitter and mobile alerts. • Curated content for weekly public safety newsletter and daily flash briefings for home assistant devices.• Edited, wrote and translated stories for sister Spanish publication Ahora Sí. Acted as liaison with Statesman.

Austin, Texas Area

• Responsible for day-to-day editorial operations, including planning coverage with a team of reporters and translators, managing the Center’s social media and updating site’s content.• Produced and translated (from English to Spanish and vice versa) regular blog posts, video interviews and analysis features on topics like freedom of expression in the Americas, news industry developments and the Center’s online courses and conferences.• Implemented editorial changes that made stories more visual, utilitarian and interactive with public-domain images, videos, infographics and tips lists. Coordinated efforts to redesign the Center’s weekly newsletter into a magazine-style format.

El Paso, Texas Area

• Covered Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, with a focus on violence, law enforcement, human rights, corruption, urban development, border protection, immigration and social issues. • Edited content and wrote for the newspaper's Spanish website, Somos Frontera.

• Covered business and technology, specializing in online security and privacy stories that explained complex cyber-threats like botnets and spear-phishing. • Wrote Sunday Q&A feature and regularly contributed to newspaper's technology blog.

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Covered breaking news, late night public safety shift, courts, religion features and communities. • Contributed to public safety blog and tweeted updates on developing news.• Wrote freelance blog dispatches from Mexico City during the 2006 presidential elections.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Wrote for sister Spanish publication Al Día about public safety, city politics. Covered the 2008 U.S. presidential primaries.

Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Journalism

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication, Journalism, And Related Programs