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Jacqueline Donado, currently Project director of New York Book Fair Expo, began her career as a reporter in Barranquilla, Colombia, for newspapers such as El Tiempo and El Espectador. Until 2005, she was Managing Editor at El Diario/ La Prensa, where she started as the Assistant Metro Editor in 1996. In 2005 – 2006 she was a Special Project Editor for new El Diario/La Prensa/ ImpreMedia publishing ventures as a Consultant.
She has worked in editing and managing areas of a wide variety of publications including, Soccer USA World Cup, the daily newspaper for USA World Cup ’94; and AHORA magazine , the Spanish weekly magazine of The Hudson Dispatch in Jersey City, New Jersey. Currently, Donado is working as Project Director of New York Book Fair Expo, and just published the book “Cuentos locos de periodistas idem”
Donado, who has a working knowledge of Greek and Portuguese, has also been active within the Portuguese speaking community of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut as an editor for The Brazilian Newspaper, a monthly publication in New York City.
She graduated from the Universidad Autonoma del Caribe, Colombia, with a degree in Journalism and Social Communications in 1984 and attended several seminars from the Poynter Institute, in Florida, the American Press Institute in Reston, Virginia 2001 and Neiman Conference on Narrative Journalism, Harvard University - Boston 2005.
As Managing Editor at El Diario/La Prensa, Donado helped lead the paper's transformation into a team-based newsroom structure, with a new computer system. She has also been in charge of selecting the pieces to be sent to the annual prizes granted by NAHP – National Association of Hispanic Journalist –, where the paper has consistently won a good number of awards. Donado worked with production and graphic design firms to develop plans for new designs of the paper, supervising the change from the old computer system to a new platform, Good News -GN3- including the training and daily operations of the newsroom staff. She also participated in strategic groups to develop the new website of El Diario/La Prensa Newspaper.
As Editorial Special Project Director, Donado was the Project Director for the creation of EL DIARIO/CONTIGO, a weekly free home delivery newspaper.
In an effort to leave a testimony of the news of our time seen through the lenses of El Diario/La Prensa, she has been overseeing for the last five years -`Hechos que hicieron historia’, an annuary of the stories of the past year, as well as independent editorial project of the newspaper.
In times of crisis, like the events of September 11, 2001 and the North East regional black out, Donado showed a lot of control over the tragedy and strong professional skills in order to manage a newsroom closed due to the circumstances. She led a team who worked outside of the newsroom to prepare and complete the edition.
She has worked as a print journalist for nearly two decades in both the United States and abroad.
She also has experience in corporate communications and headed her own business graphic design and editorial consulting service before joining El Diario/La Prensa.
As an executive staff of El Diario/La Prensa, she also provides industry service through speeches and visits to media, TV and university campuses. She is frequently invited to speak or moderate discussions at industry conferences.
email: jackdonado@aol.com
Recognitions
2004 - Queens County October 2004 honoree –
Queens Hispanic Culture & Heritage Month Organizing Committee by Borough President Hellen Marshall.
Hispanic Heritage Month
2005 New York City - City Council Proclamation as an outstanding journalist in New York City
Award winner journalist National Hispanic Association of Publications – NAHP Awards - 2004 and 2005
Recent books:
Cuentos Locos – 06/06
Hechos que hicieron historia – 9/11/2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005
Promocion en medios
