{"id":4699,"date":"2018-09-09T23:54:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T23:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/speaker\/selymar-colon\/"},"modified":"2018-09-09T23:54:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T23:54:17","slug":"selymar-colon","status":"publish","type":"ona_speaker","link":"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/speaker\/selymar-colon\/","title":{"rendered":"Selymar Col\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"

Selymar is one of 22 candidates for the 2019-20 Board of Directors election. ONA members as of Sept. 9 are eligible to vote between Sept. 11 and Sept 27. Learn more about the election process<\/a> and check out Selymar’s vision for ONA<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

For more than decade, Selymar Col\u00f3n has been at the epicenter of multiplatform journalism, engaging Spanish-language audiences and the Hispanic community in the U.S. with trusted news and information. A digital pioneer, Col\u00f3n championed the use of social media in the newsroom and created the first team of multimedia news producers to incorporate digital-only videos into the company\u2019s news strategy.<\/p>\n

Col\u00f3n has produced coverage converging the best of television with digital storytelling. Coverage includes the 2010 Haiti earthquake, one of the first interviews with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and the digital special \u201cThe Hispanics of the President.\u201d Her efforts also contributed to the Univision News team winning awards for its digital coverage of the Humanitarian Crisis at the U.S.-Mexican border and TV news special \u201cMeet the Candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n

Col\u00f3n joined Univision in 2006 working across different roles and going up the ranks \u2014 from serving as producer for Sunday morning show, \u201cAl Punto\u201d hosted by award-winning journalist Jorge Ramos, to serving as director of digital integration and most recently as managing editor and senior director of digital news. 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