At the age of 10, I won a publicity prize. I guess that was the beginning of a career devoted to communicate. and just to let others know what was happening. I studied Social Communications in Argentina, where I was born 24 years ago, but professional achievements led me to journalism.
I am the Latin-American intern for the fall at Scripps Howard Foundation, representing the International Center for Journalists. I worked for several regional magazines in Argentina doing features and indepth travel stories, and ended up working for the local bureau of prisons (Servicio Penitenciario Bonerense), reporting on inmates’ lives. There I was responsible for a magazine that is distributed in governmental and political institutions. Some of my duties were to find recovered ex-convicts within the province to show how they were getting on with their new lives.
Even though a business, journalism has the strange quality to make you a reality maker, and sometimes the media get to create different worlds, that are invisible to some people. Maybe that was what attracted me and guided me to the United States: the commitment to be a reality archeologist.
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Submitted on December 10, 2001 - 1:00am.
Federico Arellano - Fall 2001
Washington, D.C__ Though markets react sensitively to rumors and speculations, the facts feeding the blinking numbers of the stocks' digital displays are sometimes real. But behind Nov. 27 biotechnology shares' rally there is a prospective success, a millionaire business waiting around the ..
Submitted on December 7, 2001 - 1:00am.
Federico Arellano - Fall 2001
Sixty years later, the Pearl Harbor tragedy still touches a nerve. Last year's hit film, "Pearl Harbor," was merely the latest of nearly 30 films on the subject so far. "I'm not sure the best (movie on Pearl Harbor) has been done yet," said Barry Collin, president of Independent Feature Film ..
Submitted on November 21, 2001 - 1:00am.
Federico Arellano - Fall 2001
What child wouldn't want Superman's X-ray vision, MacGyver's skills and Maxwell Smart's gadgets? The explosion of TV shows and movies -especially the recently released “Spy Kids” from Miramax - has awakened a huge industry of spy-related entertainment for children. Gene ..
Submitted on November 21, 2001 - 1:00am.
Federico Arellano - Fall 2001
It took a couple of months before the first semi-documentary on the Pearl Harbor attack was released, and a year before the public could see "Remember Pearl Harbor," a melodrama based on the disaster. "A Yank in Viet-Nam" premiered almost simultaneously with the first massive launch of troops in ..
Submitted on November 12, 2001 - 1:00am.
Federico Arellano - Fall 2001
The effects of September 11 are still being felt throughout the world of sports. And now college soccer might feel the crunch. With the federal government calling for tighter control of student visas, coaches could have a more difficult time importing top talent from overseas. "Unfortunately, with ..
Submitted on November 2, 2001 - 1:00am.
Federico Arellano - Fall 2001
WASHINGTON__“A dead end”, “a difficult crisis”, “almost the default”, “a contradictory country.” These are some of the phrases reporters working in the U.S., mostly dealing with economical and Latin American issues, use to describe the situation in ..
Submitted on November 2, 2001 - 1:00am.
Federico Arellano - Fall 2001
WASHINGTON__“A dead end”, “a difficult crisis”, “almost the default”, “a contradictory country.” These are some of the phrases reporters working in the U.S., mostly dealing with economical and Latin American issues, use to describe the situation in ..
Submitted on October 23, 2001 - 12:00am.
Federico Arellano - Fall 2001
Afghanistan is a complex country, populated by nine ethnic groups who speak a dozen different languages and who live in a varied geographical frontier. The most recent war with Russia left the countryside peppered with landmines and many monuments and minarets reduced to rubble. The poverty left in ..
Submitted on September 26, 2001 - 12:00am.
Federico Arellano - Fall 2001
WASHINGTON - When the FBI arrested Ana Belen Montes, a Cuban woman accused of passing along classified information last Friday, it seemed the arrest was not accidental. They had to accelerate the investigation upon the risk of keeping a reputed dangerous person within the Bolling Air Force Base in ..
Submitted on September 19, 2001 - 12:00am.
Federico Arellano - Fall 2001
“If we had gotten to New York City an hour earlier, I would have been dead,” Gonzalo Vidal, said. “The first thing I wanted to do the moment I got here was to go to the Towers, even without unpacking, and just lie on the ground to look at all their height.” When Vidal saw ..
