Andrés Giraldo, a multimedia journalist for Univision New England, will be the next guest at the Miami Dade College Journalism Speaker Series.
The interview will be conducted via Zoom on May 30 at North Campus, 11380 N.W. 27 Ave., Room 2131. It will be conducted in Spanish.
Last year, Giraldo was a photographer for The Reporter, winning first-place awards for best news photo and picture story from the Florida College System Publications Association in November.
In 2020, Giraldo launched PeopleNews, an Instagram account that posted weekly news segments of approximately 45 minutes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Giraldo managed a team of about 13 journalists, including correspondents from Colombia, France, Mexico, the United States and Venezuela.
The 33-year-old has a bachelor’s degree in audiovisual communications from the University of Medellín in Colombia.
The MDC Journalism Speaker Series was launched in February of 2008 to provide students an opportunity to meet and network with working journalists. To date, more than 84 journalists have participated in the series.
