Randy Vazquez Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

-Works on short and long-form documentary videos for the Boston Globe. Also produces breaking news, features, investigative, and sports videos.-Covered stories of national relevance such as: the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, the transportation of Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard and the 10-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing.-Responds to major news events and provides fast and accurate visual stories.-Helps craft video strategies for departments across the newsroom. Helps create workflows that make the Globe video team run more efficiently and ensures communication is clear across various newsroom departments.-Handles the Boston Globe YouTube strategy and audience growth efforts. Under his strategy, the Globe's YouTube account had its most successful year in 2024 since 2013. Growing by over 24,000 since heading the team’s strategy in December of 2022. -Brings a photographers eye to the videos he produces.-Creates social content for the Boston Globe's social media accounts.-Ensures every Globe-produced video is accessible by maintaining accurate closed caption- ing practices. As a fully bilingual journalist, he also produces closed captions in Spanish for the Globe's Spanish-speaking readers.-Works with Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Photoshop.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

-Teaches Introduction to Photojournalism at Emerson College.-Throughout his course, students learn industry standard practices such as Associated Press style, story sourcing, picture editing, video production and camera function. The heart of the class reiterates the importance of ethics in journalism, specifically teaching students how to responsibly report on individuals and communities, particularly those who are marginalized. -Students learn visual literacy. Students learn how to make impactful visual storytelling decisions that clearly and accurately tell a story. Assignments include learning how to tell visual stories for general news, breaking news, politics, sports, portraiture, features, etc. Through understanding the power of visuals, students apply it to other forms of journalism including: reporting, design, and video production.-Students learn how to use Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop. - During his time at Emerson, his students earned internships at new organizations such as the Boston Globe.-Students learn how to use Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop.

San Jose, California

- An experienced visual journalist, he would be trusted with the most sensitive and at timesdifficult topics to cover such as covering the COVID-19 pandemic, deadly wildfires that devastated the region and the mass shooting at Valley Transportation Authority yard in San Jose.-A versatile videographer and editor who edits and shoots video in different styles such asfeatures, news, sports and short documentary.-Developed strategies to grow the publication’s following on social media. His strategieshelped double the organization’s Instagram following from around 11,000 followers to more than 22,000 in less than eight months. His strategies also helped grow the number of subscribers to the company’s YouTube channel from a little over 20,000 subscribers to over 100,000.

Los Angeles, California, United States

-Photographs and edits compelling photo essays for BuzzfeedNews.com -Navigates through wire services and makes editorial choices on deadline. -Does extensive research for stories and later photographs them.-Pitches stories to editors that are timely and impactful.-Writes stories that accompany photos online.

Los Angeles, California, United States

-Edited student produced documentaries at USC and elevated them for television.-Would research interview subjects and later shoot and edit video packages to go along withour episodes.-Fact checked content and also made sure all the legal documentation was provided bystudents.-Would stack shows that would later air on Spectrum News 1.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

-Worked a hybrid role as a photojournalist and video editor, which included shooting images,video and in most cases, editing footage on short deadlines.- Was trusted with covering some of the biggest news stories in the region during a stint at theSun-Sentinel including the 2016 Presidential Elections, the Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting, Hurricane Matthew and the death of Fidel Castro.-Edited and shot videos in different styles such as short-documentary, features, natural soundvideos, character driven stories, summary stories, among other styles.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

-As an intern at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel he produced photographs for the print edition of the Sun- Sentinel and also produced slideshows for online use. -For all of his assignments he shot footage and edited video packages on short deadlines. -Produced a wide range of video stories including general news, breaking news, features, arts and entertainment and politics.- Produced videos for use on social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. -Researched and pitched story ideas to editors. -Accurately captioned photographs and followed AP style guidelines.

Greater New York City Area

-Was one of 26 students from across the country to be selected into the prestigious New York Times Student Journalism Institute.-Produced a bilingual video story and translated interviews from Spanish to English. -Produced two videos for the institute titled, “Boxing Saved Me” and “Yarnbombing in El Barrio.” Another video, titled “I Paid $725 for My Ticket,” was published by The NewYork Times on its website.

Recorded, edited and produced video packages on department events regarding; guest speakers, recognition for student accomplishments, television segments for CreaTV and videos intended for journalistic educational purposes for the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State University. Set up audio equipment and lighting for interviews and conducted interviews with subjects.

Photographed events ranging from award ceremonies to athletic competitions for display on the San Jose State University website. I edited photos through Adobe Lightroom and turned around projects in a timely manner.

Edited the “Barbershop Diaries” documentary, which was featured on KPIX, the CBS affiliate in the Bay Area.Arranged interviews with subjects and gathered information for the documentary. Managed students and assigned task for them to complete. Also produced the trailer for the documentary.

Managed the Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts for The Spartan Daily the campus newspaper at San Jose State. I produced engaging posts on social media to boost viewership of writer’s stories and increased traffic to SpartanDaily.com by 270% during my stint as editor.

San Jose State University

Wrote compelling stories for the Spartan Daily the campus newspaper at San Jose State University. Stories written included features, news, breaking news, sports, sports feature, and arts and entertainment stories. Produced multimedia packages that were posted on SpartanDaily.com and shared on social media. Photographed breaking news, general news, sports, portraits, arts and entertainment and feature images for daily publication.

Shot, produced and edited a documentary chronicling the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, titled “Nation United, Nation Divided.”The project was highlighted on NBC Bay Area.

Managed The Mountaineer / mountiewire.com, the student newspaper and online presence of Mt. San Antonio College. Established weekly video segments for online student newspaper. Edited stories by students submitted for publication in both print and online versions.

Mt. San Antonio College

Wrote for The Mountaineer / mountiewire.com, student newspaper and online presence of Mt. San Antonio College. Wrote timely stories on general news, breaking news, sports, and arts and entertainment. Produced video segments for the online presence of the newspaper.

Master'S Degree, Specialized Journalism

Bachelor'S Degree, Convergence Journalism