Mariano Blejman

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Founder and director @ Media Party
Argentina
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Argentina, Argentina
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About Mariano Blejman

Digital Transformation Leader | Media Innovation Executive | AI Strategist | blejman@mediafactory.vc Key Leadership Philosophy: "Content is the King, Audience is the Kingdom" - Driving strategic innovation through deep understanding of digital ecosystems and audience behavior.Digital transformation leader with over 25 years of experience in media, technology, and entrepreneurship. Proven track record of driving organizational innovation, building high-performance teams, and leveraging artificial intelligence to revolutionize content strategies. Specialized in digital media transformation, startup acceleration, and strategic ecosystem development. Key areas:## Startup Mentoring - **Project Acceleration**: Through his work with Media Factory, the first news accelerator program in the world launched in 2014; HacksLabs, the first data journalism accelerator, and more than 30 hackathons accelerator programs, Blejman has advised media startups on how to scale their projects, improve editorial efficiency, and develop sustainable business models. ## Media Innovation Consulting - **Product Strategies**: Blejman has extensive experience in defining and developing product strategies for digital media, helping organizations grow their audience. He was core instructor on Product Management for the Knight Center at Texas, CUNY at New York and News Product Alliance. ## Training and Education - **Courses and Workshops**: As an instructor at various institutions, Blejman has offered training on topics such as digital journalism, data use, and technological tools applied to journalism, including design thinking, forward thinking and neuroscience applied to content consumptions. ## Development of Technological Tools - **Implementation of Digital Solutions**: His experience in the development of tools such as SmartStory.ai allows him to collaborate in the creation and implementation of technological solutions that improve editorial performance and interaction with the audience. ## Networking and Professional Connections - **Networking Facilitator**: Blejman can help establish connections between journalists, technologists and other business professionals, fostering a collaborative environment that drives innovation; mainly through Media Party, the biggest media innovation event in Latam and growing in the US.## Data Journalism Projects - **Data Analysis Consulting**: With his experience in data journalism and analytical tools, he can advise media on how to use data to inform their stories and improve their coverage.

Mariano Blejman's Current Company Details
Media Party

Media Party

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Founder and director
Argentina
Website:
mediaparty.org
Employees:
7
Mariano Blejman Work Experience Details
  • Media Party
    Founder And Director
    Media Party
    Argentina
  • Smartstory.Ai
    Ceo
    Smartstory.Ai Oct 2023 - Present
    Belgrano, Buenos Aires Province, Ar
    We have built a serie of artificial intelligence models that allow us to predict content performance before it goes live.
  • Mediafactory.Vc
    Manager Partner
    Mediafactory.Vc Jun 2013 - Present
    Manager partner for the Media Factory is a startup accelerator which focuses exclusively on the business of online news and journalism. We select small teams of journalists working on content projects that have the potential to grow into successful, long-term content businesses. Media Factory invest USD 75,000 in each company and work with founders on editorial efficiency, audience growth, and revenue generation. We advise, through our network of mentors and investors, on emerging trends and best practices of successful digital news outlets from around the globe. Partners: Media Development Investment Fund, Indie Voices and North Base Media, NXTP Labs and ICFJ. http://mediafactory.vc
  • Media Party
    Founder And Director
    Media Party Aug 2012 - Present
    Founder of the Hacks/Hackers BA Media Party (mediaparty.info), a three-day gathering to rethink journalism and restart media. Media Party has become the largest media innovation event in the latin America and the biggest Hacks/Hackers event worldwide. For three days, more than 2300 participants--programmers, journalists, designers, data activists, social and technological entrepreneurs amongst them--worked to restart media with major trainers from the best news interactive teams. Participants are able to attend various keynotes, training activities, project developments, as well as networking and collaboration instances with international experts, all free of charge. The Media Party program 40 parallel workshops, all aimed at journalists, editors and activists, and addressing topics related to digital journalism (web scraping, visual storytelling, data visualizations, control boards, audience measuring tools, stories and sensors, etc.) and is becoming a global inspiration.
  • Grupo Octubre
    Chief Digital Officer
    Grupo Octubre Jan 2017 - Jun 2023
    I lead the digital growth of Grupo Octubre through a deep transformation of the company's group focused on the culture of the Internet. Using of online technologies and data analysis, supervising the operations in all the digital sectors of the Group and the companies part of the holding I helped to grow 110% of MUV in the national newspaper website of Página/12 in 2017. We also helped to reshape the AM 750 radio station (with an average of 1.10hrs of time spent on site). We are refreshing the websites of Caras y Caretas, Planeta Urbano, FM Malena, Diario Z, among others. I work closely with the CEO Francisco Meritello, and its various editorial and business leaders. The position includes the exploration of new team buildings, businesses, acquisition of technologies for media and investment in innovation.
  • Analice.Me (Mapa76)
    Editor-In-Hack
    Analice.Me (Mapa76) Apr 2011 - Apr 2023
    General manager of Analice.me (mapa76) a data mining, semantic analytics, social network analysis, and visualization platform.
  • Taringa!
    Content Intelligence Consultant
    Taringa! Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
    Buenos Aires, Ar
    I'm helping Taringa.net, the biggest Social Publishing Platform in Latin America, with strategies to grow in content quality and traffic. I run a content analytic project to understand and predict content performance.
  • Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires
    Co-Organizer
    Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires Apr 2011 - Dec 2016
    The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter and visualize information, and for journalists who use technology to find and tell stories. After almost six years of work, Hacks/Hackers BA became the biggest chapter in the world with over 7000 members, thus surpassing New York, London and San Francisco, and generating a massive repercussion in media. It was the house of Media Party, the biggest media gathering in Latin America.
  • Hackdash.Org
    Co-Founder
    Hackdash.Org Aug 2012 - Jun 2016
    HackDash.org is a collaboratively and open source developed platform to track hackathons ideas, projects and people. HackDash.org was initially developed by Dan Zajdband for the Media Party, and in March 2014 has reached 1000 projects, 1600 registered users and around 400 dashboards. The platform to track collaborative ideas has been growing very fast becoming an standard to organize hackathons worldwide. From Finland to Nepal, from United States to Montevideo, organizations all over the world are validating this growing. HackDash has been used by featured users like ICFJ, Code For Africa, AMI, Knight Mozilla Open News, OKFN, Hacks/ Hackers, Ciudadano Inteligente, Desarrollando América Latina, among others organizations and is created and improved by Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires community.
  • Hackslabs.Org
    Founder
    Hackslabs.Org Feb 2014 - May 2016
    Founder and Manager of HacksLabs.org, a Data Journalism Accelerator Fund that seeks to provide funding, mentorship and technical support to projects that link the open data movement, data journalism and citizen participation. The program is funded by John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the World Bank Institute, the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and receive the mentorship of the Knight-Mozilla Open News among other incoming donors. With this initiative we seek to favor the development of both prototypes and large scale projects of news applications, data-visualizations, interactive news, tools and open data platforms with grants from 2.000 usd, 10,000 usd and 25,000 usd.
  • International Center For Journalists
    Knight International Journalism Fellow
    International Center For Journalists Mar 2013 - Apr 2016
    Washington, District Of Columbia, Us
    Running a News Innovation Program for Latin America for the ICFJ, which include developing Hacks and Hackers communities in the region, prototyping tools and achieving scale of structural changes inside Media Outlets. Building bridges between entrepreneur, data journalists, open data advocates. Fundraising and looking for funding possibilities for the latin "continent".
  • Página 12
    "Digital Culture" Editor
    Página 12 Sep 2010 - Feb 2013
    Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Ar
    Technology weekly section founded by the author dedicated to Internet, new technologies, software, hardware, gadgets and whatever goes on, on line. That sections goes on every tuesday, printed in the national newspaper and on line.
  • Página 12
    Editor In Chief - Suplemento No
    Página 12 Jan 2005 - Feb 2013
    Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Ar
    Thanks to my talent as Editor-in-Chief and writer for “NO”, a weekly section within Pagina/12 newspaper which is dedicated to youth culture, rock and roll, new trends and the latest in technology. I have been able to attract thousands of new young readers to our newspaper every day. I am known for the depth and insightful knowledge that I bring to my interviews, reports, chronicles and my articles on technology. In regards to technology I have traveled to IT hubs such as the Silicon Valley in the United States and Bangalore, India to carry out first-hand investigative research. I am also one of the first South American journalists to write articles on the subject of open source, free software, creative commons, mobile devices and hacker's culture.
  • Página 12
    Staff Writer
    Página 12 Aug 1998 - Dec 2004
    Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Ar
    Since 1998 I have written a host of articles for other sections of this newspaper, such as exclusive interviews with local and international artists, stories from around the world, and my own social and cultural investigations. In 2004 I became a full time writer for Página/12 and I am Editor-in-Chief for "NO" since 2005. I have published more than 900 articles on a variety of subjects ranging from popular and youth culture to technology, entertainment, cinema, politics, the economy, current events and sunday magazines. These articles have been re-published in others newspapers, blogs, and other online publications in several languages, like english, german or french. I have also worked as an international correspondent from countries such as the United States, France, Spain, Italy, Morocco, India, South Africa, Peru, Bolivia, Aruba, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay.In January of 1999 I participated in the Página/12 expedition that struggled for fifteen days, under sub-zero temperatures, to reach the summit of Aconcagua Mountain in Argentina. At 22,834 ft., Aconcagua is the highest peak in all of the Americas.
  • Radio Continental
    Technology Columnist At La Vuelta, Maria O'Donnell Show
    Radio Continental Jul 2011 - Jul 2012
    Ciudad Autónoma De Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Ar
  • 360 Tv
    Technology Columnist
    360 Tv Sep 2011 - Feb 2012
    I use to be a technology columnist in the first TDT open digital channel for southamerica. I am in a kind off standby...
  • Caec
    Adviser
    Caec Feb 2005 - Nov 2011
    Adviser at CAEC (Cámara Asesora de Exhibiciones Cinematográficas, representative as a journalist). As member of CAEC, the Argentine equivalent of the MPAA or Motion Pictures Association of America, I participate in rating hundreds of national and international movies for viewing in my home country.
  • Universidad De Palermo
    Professor At Diarios
    Universidad De Palermo Apr 2005 - Mar 2011
    Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Ar
    Professor at the Journalism Faculty of Social University of Palermo, dedicated to study the history of national and internationals newspapers.
  • Independent
    Web Consultant
    Independent Jul 1997 - Aug 2009
    Consultant, developer, webs designer, web content producer, freelance in about fifty sites.
  • Revista Tres Puntos
    Freelance Writing
    Revista Tres Puntos Jan 2002 - Jan 2004
    General information covering's, travel asignments, interviews
  • Hecho En Buenos Aires
    Editor
    Hecho En Buenos Aires Jan 2000 - Mar 2002
    Hecho en Buenos Aires is a social media-project very close to The Big Issue UK magazine. The project help homeless people to help themselves. Is a magazine and a social business.
  • Zapping Supplement At Diario Uno Of Mendoza
    Staff Writer
    Zapping Supplement At Diario Uno Of Mendoza Jan 1993 - Jan 1996

Mariano Blejman Skills

Journalism Digital Media Social Networking Storytelling Technology Evaluation Music Youth Culture Information Technology Editor New Media Entrepreneurship Hacks Community Management Web Content Politics Datajournalism Cool Hunting Magazines Hackers Editorial Publishing Newspapers Start Ups Blogging Writing Publications Editing Media Relations Web Content Writing

Mariano Blejman Education Details

  • Universidad Nacional De Cuyo
    Universidad Nacional De Cuyo
    Social Communication And Social Sciences

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