Juan Elosua

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 Nación 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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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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Nicar2015 in Atlanta was my first conference as a Knight-Mozilla fellow and it was a fantastic experience. More than 1,000 people from the journalism & desgin & technology fields gather for an intensive stint of 4-5 days with hands-on sessions, panels and demos on tools to innovate in Computer Assisted Journalism.

One of the first things that you realize once you get there is that you are going to have a feeling of missing out no matter how hard you try. There are over 10 simultaneous sessions and unless you can clone yourself (tried that but didn't work...) you need ...

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2015 is starting and as a new Knight-Mozilla fellows I joined the rest of the cohort in the onboarding event in Los Angeles. I am very grateful to Dan, Erika, Ryan and Erin (in spirit) for giving us the opportunity to get to know the rest of the fellows in more depth both personally and professionally.

This fellowship is one of a kind in the sense that each one of us is going to be headed to a different newsroom so this event was a good opportunity to establish relationships that will be kept during 2015 but mainly through remote ...

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