Fellowship midpoint

It's shocking to think that half of my fellowship is gone already. It's been five months since I arrived to Buenos Aires and went to La NaciĆ³n for the first time with butterflies on my stomach, not sure what to expect and how would I feel working in a newsroom.

So what's it like to be a Knight-Mozilla fellow? How do you interact with the rest of the newsroom? What's special about being a developer working inside a newsroom? How do you handle time management?

In this post I will try to answer some of those ...

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2015 PASO CABA Elections

On April 26th Buenos Aires has held its first PASO elections. PASO stands for Simultaneous and Obligatory Open Primary elections. In this election two main things are decided:

  • Which candidate will pass as the official candidate for each political party for the final elections
  • Each political party has to achieve at least 1.5% of the total votes to be able to continue on the election race.

These were my first elections inside a newsroom and it was thrilling!! It was like being inside a movie surrounded by journalists waiting for the initial results to rush to their computers to ...

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