Reportage Workshop

Hi bloggers! Today I'm going to talk about my favorite subject of my fourth semester in journalism. This subject is Reportage Workshop and my teacher is the great journalist Tania Tamayo.

Reportage Workshop is my favorite subject because I have learned more about the journalistic work making extensive reports and important interviews. My first report was about the new migration law in Chile, theme that has acquired more relevance in the last time.

At this moment I am working on a new reportage about the women's soccer team Audax Italiano, where my cousin is the coach. This theme is important because two of the players of the team are leaders at the same time. This happens because the institution Audax Italiano stopped financing the team in January of this year.

I want to mention the person behind this learning: my teacher Tania Tamayo. She has published important investigative journalism books such as "Caso Bombas" and "Incendio en la Torre 5". Tamayo is one of the best teachers I have had in my life and I am very grateful to her.

Juan Cristóbal Guarello, a journalist that I admire

Juan Cristóbal Guarello is a Chilean sports journalist and writer, National Prize for Sports Journalism 2011 and someone recognized among his colleagues and the general public for his exhaustive dedication to what he does and his commitment to the truth.

Guarello is currently the director of the sports magazine El Gráfico, sports commentator on Canal 13 and ADN Radio Chile, as well as a columnist for Diario As Chile. The journalist has a section in the central news of Canal 13 called "Digan la verdad", where he looks like an opinion leader, reporting and denouncing irregularities, such as the scandal of Sergio Jadue's departure from the presidency of the National Association Of Professional Football.

In co-authoring with Luis Urrutia, Juan Cristóbal has published several soccer books, such as "Anecdotario del fútbol chileno", "Historias secretas del fútbol chileno" e "Historia de la clasificación a Sudáfrica 2010". He also incurred in the fiction with the publication of the novel "Gente mala" in the year 2014.

I admire this journalist for his dedication in his journalistic work, and above all, for his great knowledge in football, where I consider him an eminence. Being recognized follower of Colo Colo, Guarello has no problem in criticizing hard to the white team when he considers it convenient. Not everyone likes Guarello because of his complicated personality, but almost everyone recognizes him as an excellent professional.

The Soundtrack of my life

Relating music to different stages of my life generates a strange mixture of rock, metal and grunge on the one hand, popular trova and romantic music on the other hand, and when it comes to dancing, cumbia is the number one.

My adolescence had a brief taste for reggaeton and cumbia, leaving aside the first, but never the second. Over time, it was the rock of Soda Stereo or Guns N'Roses, the metal of System of a Down or Korn, and, above all, the grunge of Nirvana and Pearl Jam the music that captivated me.

Associated with my political tendency, there was always a space in my heart for the great Silvio Rodriguez, as well as for one of my favorite bands, Ska-p. Here, it is fair to mention the best Chilean band of all time, Los Prisioneros.

The loves and dislikes of my life have brought with them the taste for bands like Bon Jovi or Coldplay, Sin Bandera or Mana.

With a special mention for the national funk of Chancho en Piedra and Los Tetas, I want to close this post with the cumbia bands that always close the events where they play, I mean the magic trident Chico Trujillo, Villa Cariño and Santa Feria.

My favorite song of each genre:


Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXD_IEcZbMI
Metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRGrNDV2mKc
Grunge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkcJEvMcnEg
Romantic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BMwcO6_hyA
Cumbia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta2CretHHlU

We are the Champions, my friend

It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words and this photo is a reliable example of that saying. This photo was taken on Tuesday, November 8th of this year, at approximately 3 o'clock in the afternoon, after I made the goal that gave us the definitive 4-3 and we emerged champions of the "King's Cup", a tournament of soccer played in the Institute of Communication and Image, where I study journalism.

This photo I really like because my happiness is appreciated and that of my colleagues in a cathartic moment. In it you can see my partner Sebastian Bordoy getting up to celebrate the decisive goal. Another colleague, Gustavo Soto, comes to hug me, while my friend Nicolás Reyes was doing the same thing. The photo also shows my attack partner, Diego Ortiz, with a notorious happiness on his face, pointing at me with both hands. Behind, the team goalkeeper and my friend Michael Lieberherr also makes gestures with his arms. The team is called "Magic Space Forces" and we won every game of the championship.

"You broke my heart, Fredo"

Hello dear bloggers, today I come to talk about cinema, topic that I am passionate about and whose topic to discuss will be my favorite scene in the history of the seventh art.

If you have seen Francis Ford Coppola's grand and unparalleled trilogy of "The Godfather" you immediately recognized this remarkable scene. But if you have not seen it, apart from recommending that you do it immediately, I will explain what this kiss between brothers is about.

Michael Corleone, represented by Al Pacino, is the boss of the family in this second part of the trilogy. He discovered that his brother Fredo had betrayed him, which is unforgivable and a deadly sin in the rigorous Italian family.

At a New Year's Eve party in Cuba, Michael kisses his brother and says "You broke my heart, Fredo" shortly before the Revolution broke out.

The scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcFlp6kl508

My Smartphone

Hello dear bloggers! I’m going to talk about my favorite piece of technology. As you can see, this is my cell phone, a common smartphone model Samsung Galaxy W.

I got my smartphone a year ago, free of charge thanks to my plan with the company VTR, where I renew the mobile every 18 months.

Using my cell phone is pretty simple when you acquire the habit. It has few buttons and it is mainly managed through its touch screen.

I use my smartphone every day without exception, from morning till night, and I see it all the time. It is a regular part of my daily life.

The best of my cell phone is that it serves for many purposes, such as call and to receive calls, use Facebook and Whatsapp, listening to music, watching videos on YouTube, seeing how much more come the bus, playing Pokémon Go, etc.

The times that I have stayed with my cell phone battery zero for a few hours, I feel stressed out to solitary confinement, unable to check my Facebook or without playing Pokémon Go. I think my life would be boring, but quieter without my smartphone.

Why I'm studying Journalism?

Hi bloggers! In this time, I will talk to you about why I decided to study the Journalism Program at the Universidad de Chile.

In 2013, I took the PSU (University Selection Test) and I entered the Commercial Engineering Program at the Universidad de Chile the next year. This program is in the FEN (Faculty of Economics and Business). I studied only one semester there, because I didn’t like the atmosphere and I didn’t like the orientation of knowledge of that faculty.

In the second semester of that year, I decided to study Journalism at the ICEI (Institute of Communication and Image), because this program opens the doors to many possibilities of topics to cover, such as sports, politics or economics, but from the critical position of a journalist.

Today, I’m happy and satisfied in this program. Apparently, I made the right decision.

Who am I?

Hello, dear bloggers! Today I will tell you who I am.

I hope you like my first post and you are all welcome to my new blog.

I was born on November 3rd, 1994 in Santiago, Chile. I live with my parents Marcela and Francisco, who have been married for 23 years. I have a younger brother named Enzo, who is 18 years old.

I'm a football fan since always, and I am a fan of Colo Colo too. My big idols are Lionel Messi and Alexis Sánchez. I play football at the center forward position, where my great mission is to make goals, and I do it good.

I studied at Colegio Alicante in my primary education. After of that, I studied at Instituto Nacional for seven years. I’m studying journalism at Universidad de Chile in this moment. The career has five years and I’m in the second year today.