Sandra Crucianelli

Sandra Crucianelli

Americas, Argentina, 2012

Sandra Crucianelli, Argentina, is an investigative journalist and instructor specializing in digital resources and data journalism. As a Knight International Journalism Fellow, Sandra is developing technological tools to help reporters in South America analyze material and investigate important stories. She is creating the first team of investigative journalists at La Nación, one of Argentina’s leading daily newspapers, to track tax revenues earmarked for public services and helping launch the first data blog where journalists post data‐driven stories and invite the public to respond and engage. She is also working with the local chapter of Hacks/Hackers, a group of journalists and software developers collaborating on the creation of new applications to collect and visualize data. Sandra is the founder and editor of Sololocal.info, an online magazine providing hyper‐local news in Bahía Blanca City in Argentina. She is an instructor at Florida International University’s International Media Center and the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas, Austin, and serves on the advisory board of the Digital Journalism Center at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Sandra is author of Digital Tools for Journalists, a Spanish‐ and Portuguese‐language resource.