In the past few months, many news publishers in the US have announced layoffs. Others have tweaked or abandoned their paywalls and pursued more open models. And yet, beyond the Anglosphere, some news...
Mari Luz Peinado
Mari Luz Peinado is Head of Digital Strategy at El País (Spain). She is responsible for the design and implementation of initiatives to accelerate the digital transformation of the newsroom. Mari Luz is also focused on the creation and development of new online products. El País has reached more than 350,000 subscriptions in less than 4 years.
She has developed her career as a journalist working on digital and innovation projects. She worked in Verne for 6 years, a new journalistic product oriented to the millennial audience through mobile devices, social networks and new storytelling and narrative formats forEl País, first as an editor and then as editor-in-chief. Before this, she was part of the founding team of El País América, an adventure that gave her the opportunity of living in and writing about Mexico City for almost 3 years. She also wrote at Soitu.es, a pioneering native media outlet in Spain. The Online News Association awarded Soitu.es with the Excellence Award in 2008 and 2009.
