About Patricio Espinoza

Patricio G. Espinoza is a Digital Entrepreneur, Emmy award-winning Journalist and self taught Wordpress die hard geek. His current community journalism project is  AlamoCityTimes.com, a hyperlocal effort with 99% user generated community content in San Antonio, Texas.  Patricio also leads nuzGeeks.com, an endeavor to use Wordpress to help journalists launch a community news sites.  And serves as Digital Journalis Adjunct Instructor at OLLU, as well as New Media trainer for professional journalists using today's digital tools.

In 2009 Patricio launched SA4Mayor.com, a one-man-band blog covering politics using videos, LIVE Streaming and Social Media. SA4Mayor hosted San Antonio's first ever virtual town-hall meeting, reached 25,000 page views in 90 days, and on elections night called the Mayoral race before all local traditional media. 

Patricio's blog espiBlog.org, is a 2009 Breaking News, Emmy Advance Media Award recipient. During the last two decades, Espinoza has also worked in traditional broadcast including NPR-Spanish, ABC, Fox News, CNN, Univision, Discovery and A&E among others.

Espinoza contributes to Oblate Missions in San Antonio, Texas as Managing Editor and Communications Mgr., and teaches Digital Journalism at OLLU in San Antonio, TX.  He is a Poynter, USC KDMC, and McCormick Fellow, and served with NAHJ's Board of Directors.

Comments on the March 20-25, 2011 Independent Journalist Workshop: 200%, in one week my skills level improved tremendously in areas like Ads management, data mapping and wordpress among others.

• Occupation: Journalist
• Location: San Antonio, TX
• Website: http://facebook.com/myreportersnotepad
• Twitter: espiblog
• Facebook: patricioespinoza
• Was accepted for Mar 20-25 2011 Independent Journalists Workshop.

Stories

Digital media stories published elsewhere by Patricio Espinoza:

• "Good or Bad" YouTube Changing the world. [edit]
  As long as YouTube, Social Media and word of mouth exist, web videos are without a doubt changing the way the world communicates, from news to music, to how-to videos, to stories of triumph and defeat. Yet not all is good show recent reports and studies. (@espiblog Multimedia exercise KDMC UC Berkeley)

Writing

Content on this site written by Patricio Espinoza (includes contributory writing):

Testimonials

200%, in one week my skills level improved tremendously in areas like Ads management, data mapping and wordpress among others.