Online At-Large Officer Patricio Espinoza Independent All-Platforms Digital Journalist Poynter, McCormick & Knight Fellow Digital Media Center Entrepreneurship Fellow Publisher AlamoCityTimes.com & SA4Mayor.comE-mail: pe_nahj@espimedia.com

Patricio Espinoza is an Emmy award-winning All-Platforms Digital Journalist. His latest projects include AlamoCityTimes.com and SA4Mayor.com both Community Journalism efforts covering San Antonio, Texas using the latest online, digital tools and interactive social media shaping the future of journalism. Patricio is also an Adjunct Instructor of Digital Journalism teaching the use of today’s digital tools with traditional journalism values. Latest workshops include NAHJ’s 2010 Region-5 Conference, OLLU, Our lady of The Lake University, Missouri School of Journalism, NAHJ Student Chapter - University of Texas, San Marcos, The Cesar Chavez March for Freedom” and more.

During the last two decades, Espinoza has worked within traditional broadcast media and the new generation of digital frontiers. Most recently, Patricio functioned as VP of News & New Media Integration – developing media rich, interactive and viral content for on-line communities – for quepasa.com, one of the largest bilingual Latino social networks in the world next to Facebook and MySpace.

Patricio currently continues his work as an independent journalist and new media producer reaching out to a new generation of multi-media users. He also maintains a bilingual iTunes blog, “My Reporter’s NotePad,” at espiblog.org. And he contributes to NPR-Radio Bilingüe, ABC’s “Exclusiva”, and PBS’s DocuBloggers, in addition to assignments with ABC News, PBS’s “The NewsHour”, A&E Biography, and the Discovery channel among others.

He joins the McCormick Fellows Class of 2009. He is also a Poynter Fellow, and his work has received several Emmy awards, including a 2009 Emmy Advance Media Award for the use of Digital Tools covering Breaking News.  Prior to 2003, Patricio Espinoza worked with Belo’s KTVK Spanish-language News Channel in Phoenix, Arizona. He served as a national Texas Correspondent with NBC-Spanish (1993-1997), and was the founding news director of Telemundo San Antonio (1989-1993), and the network’s first Texas news bureau (1993.)

Patricio is an active member of RTNDA and NAHJ. He founded nuzGeeks.com, a professional social network for journalists and students pursuing a media profession. Patricio was born in Quito, Ecuador, where he worked as an editor and promotions producer.