Israel Rodríguez
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Israel Rodríguez Sánchez, born in Puerto Rico
on August 29, 1974, and a B.A. and M.A. graduate of the University of Puerto Rico
(UPR) School of Communications, is a Puerto Rican journalist whose professional activities have crossed over to academia.
One of the top political correspondents for El Nuevo Día
, Puerto Rico's top daily newspaper, since January 2005 Rodríguez has also been a professor at the UPR at Río Piedras' School of Communications, where he not only teaches communications courses but also organizes journalistic forums. Even though he's only in his early 30's, he is already considered a mentor to journalism students as well as young, budding journalists.
A standing-room-only forum held at UPR in October 2007 and organized and moderated by him featured two top island politicians---then Senate President Kenneth McClintock
and Rep. Jorge Colberg as well as three prominent journalists, including attorney Magdalys Rodríguez, an El Nuevo Día consultant, as well as TV reporter and radio commentator Rafael Lenín López and radio journalist Maribel Hernández.
His first book on Puerto Rico journalism, Escándalo Político y Periodismo en Puerto Rico, was published in November, 2007. He is collaborating with attorney and former journalist Magdalys Rodríguez on a book on the exercise of power at the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico
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He is currently on leave from El Nuevo Día and UPR while he completes his doctorate at Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain, where he currently resides.
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
on August 29, 1974, and a B.A. and M.A. graduate of the University of Puerto Rico
University of Puerto Rico
The University of Puerto Rico is the state university system of Puerto Rico. The system consists of 11 campuses and has approximately 64,511 students and 5,300 faculty members...
(UPR) School of Communications, is a Puerto Rican journalist whose professional activities have crossed over to academia.
One of the top political correspondents for El Nuevo Día
El Nuevo Día
El Nuevo Día is a Puerto Rican newspaper based in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico and distributed daily throughout Puerto Rico and some parts of the United States.- History :...
, Puerto Rico's top daily newspaper, since January 2005 Rodríguez has also been a professor at the UPR at Río Piedras' School of Communications, where he not only teaches communications courses but also organizes journalistic forums. Even though he's only in his early 30's, he is already considered a mentor to journalism students as well as young, budding journalists.
A standing-room-only forum held at UPR in October 2007 and organized and moderated by him featured two top island politicians---then Senate President Kenneth McClintock
Kenneth McClintock
Kenneth D. McClintock-Hernández is the current Secretary of State of Puerto Rico. Mr. McClintock served as co-chair of Hillary Clinton presidential campaign's National Hispanic Leadership Council in 2008, co-chaired Clinton's successful Puerto Rico primary campaign that year and served as the...
and Rep. Jorge Colberg as well as three prominent journalists, including attorney Magdalys Rodríguez, an El Nuevo Día consultant, as well as TV reporter and radio commentator Rafael Lenín López and radio journalist Maribel Hernández.
His first book on Puerto Rico journalism, Escándalo Político y Periodismo en Puerto Rico, was published in November, 2007. He is collaborating with attorney and former journalist Magdalys Rodríguez on a book on the exercise of power at the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico
Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico
The Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico is the territorial legislature of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The structure and responsibilities of the Legislative Assembly are defined in Article III of the Constitution of Puerto Rico....
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He is currently on leave from El Nuevo Día and UPR while he completes his doctorate at Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain, where he currently resides.