My involvement in journalism groups like NAHJ, CCNMA, and ONA have been a result of a deep desire to help other fellow journalists develop the skills and connections to advance their careers.<\/p>\n
My journalism career began in 2005 when I went on to work as an education reporter for a small daily in eastern Washington state. From there I went to cover the public safety beat at the Santa Maria Times in California\u2019s central coast. In 2007 I delved into magazine publishing, creating and selling native advertising for a small trade publication. My introduction to social media came via Mediabistro courses and hands-on experience handling Facebook marketing campaigns. I eventually went on to become a regular social media marketing instructor for New York-based Mediabistro.<\/p>\n
Like most web producers today, I began my hand in online publishing through WordPress and Twitter. In 2011 I went on to work as a \u201cbreaking news\u201d producer for Ora TV\u2019s Newsbreaker. Soon after I landed as a web producer intern at Southern California Public Radio where I helped grow its online audience in six months. From there I jumped to a short stint at Yahoo, followed by another one at Inside.com. And on April 2014, the Investigative News Network hired me as its business editor. In my role as INN editor, I am in charge of documenting one of the largest experiments in sustainability at nonprofit newsrooms. Additionally, I manage much of the organization\u2019s editorial content and social media accounts.<\/p>\n
On my spare time, I teach digital marketing at the California State University in Fullerton, and I mentor up-and-coming young journalists and help organize networking events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11899,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"","last_name":"","title":"Business Editor","organization":"Investigative News Network","website":"http:\/\/linkd.in\/1rJClyx","twitter":"RunGomez","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":""},"event":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/11898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ona_speaker"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=11898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}