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Journalism in Puerto Rico: interview with Norihelys Rodríguez
Norihelys Ramos Rodríguez is a Puerto Rican independent journalist with Bachelors’ degrees in journalism and sociology at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan. She has focused her career on gender issues and feminist perspectives, having deepened her training at the Instituto de Género y Derechos at the University Central de Ecuador and at the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas, USA.
Her professional curriculum includes experience at the Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, the Radio Vieques, the portal Distintas Latitudes, and podcasts production for Adonde Media. In 2021, she was a fellow at the Zarelia Journalism, Digital Media, Gender and Feminisms Festival and in 2018, a member of the third generation of the LATAM Network of Young Journalists at Factual.
Norihelys is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in journalism at the Faculdad de Artes y Humanidades at the University of the Andes in Colombia. Read more in the interview below.
Enio Moraes Júnior — In 2019, you wrote in a report on femicide for the portal Todas: “Men also die. They are also killed, even more than women. But the causes of murder for both populations are different. Men are killed mainly in the street because of criminal behavior. Women are killed at home because they are women”…
