Andrés Giraldo, who served as a photographer for The Reporter during the 2023-24 school year, has been hired as a multimedia journalist by Univision Colorado, a Spanish-speaking broadcasting network that covers Colorado, Massachusetts and Philadelphia.
He will begin his post on May 20.
Giraldo will conduct interviews, shoot photos and video and edit news packages in Connecticut.
“I hope to continue growing professionally…[and] be a voice for people who have no voice,” he said.
During his tenure at The Reporter, Giraldo took photos for the news, briefing and online sections and created social media reels.
The 33-year-old, who emigrated from Medellín, Colombia in 2021, took ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) classes and was pursuing an associate’s degree in photographic technology at Wolfson Campus.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in audiovisual communications from Universidad de Medellín in 2009.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Giraldo launched People News, an Instagram account that covers Colombia, Mexico and the United States. He oversaw a team of approximately 10-12 journalists, coordinated assignments and meetings and reported news.
From 2019 to 2020, he served as a part-time news correspondent for Cristovisión Noticias, a Catholic television station in Bogotá, Colombia.
Before that, Giraldo worked at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Medellín for more than two years. He was a moderator for Por Las Buenas Siempre (For The Good Always), a radio program, and was the creator and director of Noticiero Arquidiocesano (Archdiocesan Newscast), a weekly digital newscast.
