From Latin American current affairs and Python programming to fixing a broken down washing machine and writing tips from the sock drawer.
radio & podcast
A microphone is more immediate than a pen, less intrusive than a camera, and there's a visceral experience to hearing a scene, from a thundering train to a cow lowing on a distant hill, that you can't get from any other medium.
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projects
I have produced international reporting projects from Mexico, Central America and Haiti, leading recruitment, generating unique story ideas, editing and training local talent.
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journalism
My work has appeared on NPR, the BBC World Service and the CBC as well as radio stations across Mexico, Central America and Haiti.
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programming
I make websites and apps for journalists, researchers and storytellers, harnessing a variety of technologies from speech recognition to 3D maps to machine learning.
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teaching
I have taught radio journalism, robotics, soccer and English in lecture halls, offices towers, mud huts, fields and cell phone screens in Canada and Mexico.
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I'm a journalist, radio producer, project manager, instructor and developer. I've reported from Latin America and the Caribbean and my work has taken me across a minefield, into a gunfight, a dugout canoe and inside the homes of many brave and generous people. I have taught journalism, English, soccer, physics, robotics, anthropology and storytelling in board rooms, classrooms, lecture halls, playing fields and mud huts. I am also a developer, working an several software tools for education and journalism. I divide my time between Mexico and Canada.
(Conrad's) vision, his journalistic nose, and his tireless search to go one more step for the new, helped us find really impactful stories...
Manuel Ureste
Journalist and co-author of La Estafa Maestra, Animal Politico, Mexico