María Teresa Ronderos
Director
María Teresa Ronderos
María Teresa is a reporter and editor, and now is focused on finding, alongside her colleagues at CLIP, new paths for a journalism that stands on the shoulders of technology and is able to move things along. She leads the pack trying to make us stay true to our convictions and to go where we really want to go, despite the efforts of reality to sidetrack us. For this purpose, she seeks the advice of wise friends and allies, she finds new media and journalists willing to join our investigations, or who need our help in following promising leads; she finds producers, creatives, developers; experts in hearings, sources, data and witnesses in the streets (when that was still possible). She edits texts and questions anything that doesn’t add up. She looks for patrons who believe that good journalism can transform the world. She believes that journalism is a collective effort that includes those who read us and watch us; they know about what is going on and why it is going on much more than journalists do, and could help us explain it. And this would be no small feat.
Emiliana García
General Manager
Emiliana García
Emiliana is a journalist-entrepreneur that have worked as a radio and tv producer in Argentina, directed a regional newspaper in Costa Rica and co funded CLIP. She is always on the lookout for philanthropic foundations in sync with CLIP’s mission, or experimenting with new sources of revenue. But most of all, Emiliana is a budget maniac, and she is convinced that in order to know where we stand, where we want to go and how we can achieve it, we have to plan in advance and we have to budget. And so, her love for investigative journalism and her passion for budgets come together flawlessly in her daily work at CLIP.
Rigoberto Carvajal
Architect of information
Rigoberto Carvajal
Rigoberto is a computer engineer specialized in database technologies and data science. He has had a love relationship with investigative journalism for over ten years now, and he is always looking for ways to empower it through technology.
Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Journalist and Editor
Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Andrés is what Colombians call a dog’s leg: always restless here and there and everywhere, talking to people, looking for leads and tying loose ends. He believes in a journalism willing to go beyond city limits and reach the farthest corners, by mule or canoe if that’s the only way, in order to talk to people, understand their problems and also their solutions. He enjoys lending a hand in polishing texts and he believes that journalists need to work as a team, even if we were the last to understand it. Or as we say in Latin America, we are not machos, but we are muchos.
José Luis Peñarredonda
Audience Editor
José Luis Peñarredonda
José Luis wanted to be a journalist since he was five years old, and he became one. One day, he understood that technology was the key to the present, and he worked on blending together his two passions. He worked as a reporter and editor for tech media, and then became interested in how digital culture is shaping the world. Along that path, he learned about how people use the internet to connect and create bonds, and came to CLIP with the objective of making sure the journalism we do reaches more people, gathers greater impact and becomes the basis for a community.
Luisa Fernanda López
Product Manager
Luisa Fernanda López
Luisa Fernanda López is a journalist passionate about telling stories. Her wanderings in the world of journalism led her to work with colleagues of many nationalities, from which she learned that in-depth and ethical journalism crosses borders and touches many people, even if they were not born in the same country or do not speak the same language. She started in the so-called "traditional" media, but when the internet burst in, changing the way people consume information, she understood that the way of telling stories and interacting with audiences had changed forever. Luisa combines his work at El Clip with the university professorship that allows her to be permanently in the game approaching the world that young people see and are interested in.
Iván Ruiz
Data Editor
Iván Ruiz
Ivan is the kind of journalist you meet at the corner café talking with a source, asking and asking again to discover where the next story could be. He is the same one who is behind the screen making sense of a database to find the next investigation, reviewing documents or editing someone else's story that he feels is his own. It took him a while to assimilate the formula, but he finally understood that this double life between the art of writing and reading of numbers that journalism offered him, is the one he wants to live. Born and raised in a newsroom in Buenos Aires, every day he is more and more convinced that the best projects become reality when great teams are put together.
Pablo Medina
Disinformation Editor
Pablo Medina
Pablo is a writer, translator and journalist. He is fascinated by new technologies and the way they change how humans relate to each other. That is why for several years he has focused on understanding how disinformation is produced and spread, as well as what to do to fight it and how to discover who is behind it. He directed Colombiacheck, a Colombian fact-checking outlet, and also worked as a fact-checker at the New York Times Syndicate. He has also worked in various media in Colombia, the United States and Italy covering politics, sports, music and technology. He is interested in all stories that include little-spoken languages, little-known sports, or self-proclaimed prophets. He speaks Spanish, English and Italian, has studied German, Latin, Ancient Greek and Esperanto, and is now learning Russian.
Marina Gama Cubas
Data Editor
Marina Gama Cubas
Marina is a philologist and journalist specialized in data science. She observes the world through multiple forms of language and knows that good stories are hidden in conversations, gestures, documents and different types of data. You could spend the day asking questions, whether of people, records, or large databases, until all the pieces of an investigation puzzle fit together. Tireless, she will mentally recount every fact or piece of information she finds until there is no loose end left in a story. Marina knows that good journalism is done with listening, collaboration and different perspectives, and that working as a team is richer and more beautiful than working alone.
Ángela Cantador
Ángela Cantador
Ángela Cantador quiso ser periodista desde que tiene uso de razón, pero con un objetivo claro: dedicarse a ese periodismo que hace de la unión su mayor fuerza, para que las historias traspasen fronteras y puedan contarse plenamente. Tras pasar por agencias de comunicación y varios medios independientes, aterrizó en CLIP para, desde la investigación colaborativa, buscar, escuchar, entender y contar historias regionales que importan
Mayra Baez
Community Manager
Mayra Baez
Mayra is a political scientist. She is amazed by the constant mutation of communication thanks to technology, and how it can be used to confront the climate crisis and the closure of democratic spaces. She has specialized in the translation of complex content, including journalistic content, for broader audiences. In other words: Mayra has fun simplifying complex ideas. She is one of the creators of AJ+ Español, Al Jazeera's first Spanish-language media for Latin America, and also worked with Univision. She is also a meditation trainer, convinced of how important it is to take care of the mental health of journalists to produce quality journalism.
Marion Briancesco
Production
Marion Briancesco
Marión is a Costa Rican journalist and internationalist. It was in her childhood that she knew her vocation when she made homemade newspapers and, when she discovered the Internet, at the age of eight, she found a new source to answer his curiosities. Passionate about investigative journalism, data and stories about technology and society, Marion has been a consultant on research and projects in non-profit organizations, as well as Internet governance initiatives. Although in another life she would be an art historian, in this one she is a faithful believer in collaborative journalism, and in CLIP she found meaning in what she always aspired to: learn from a talented team and venture to find new ways to tell the stories that matter in Latin America .
Diego Arce
Web Developer
Diego Arce
Diego is a computer engineer focusing on software and web applications development, specialized in Front-End and data visualization. He is a lover of standards, neat coding and positive leadership. Diego is a strong believer in thinking twice but writing once only, and he is passionate about learning new technologies and sharing what he learned.
Sairo Alemán Vallejos
Front-End Engineer
Sairo Alemán Vallejos
Sairo Alemán Vallejos is a software engineer with experience in Front-end web development. Sairo develops products and goes out to look for data to offer a clear and productive visualization to journalists working with CLIP, for whom he has great admiration. According to Sairo, if we don't have technological tools, we wouldn't be able to cross borders and present comprehensive, complete information. In other words, it is important to generate a positive social impact through journalistic research and technological products.
Jair Robelo Altamirano
Back end Engineer
Jair Robelo Altamirano
Jair Robelo Altamirano is a business computer scientist, focused on backend software development and data analysis and processing. Jair is a meticulous person who likes to analyze everything and be 100% involved in what he does. His attraction to the world of data comes from his eagerness to discover new challenges and explore new areas to apply what he has learned.
Armando Mora
Back end Engineer
Armando Mora
Armando Mora is a software engineer with experience in the Back-end area. Armando is a passionate person, always looking to go beyond what is known by using technology to enhance the work of journalism. For Armando, his greatest satisfaction is working with journalists, supporting them in the search for solutions to their problems and putting his knowledge at the service of the creation of Latin American news.
