Miguel Paz

Miguel Paz is an investigative journalist and digital media strategist.

A native of Chile, he is the founder of the data journalism website Poderopedia, created through a 2011 Knight News Challenge grant. The site keeps track of who’s who in business and politics in Chile, Colombia and Venezuela, provides open-source software and advises newsrooms and civic organizations.

He has 18 years of experience as a reporter and editor. He was deputy director of ElMostrador.cl, Chile’s first digital-only news organization; deputy editor of La Nación Domingo; co-founder of El Periodista magazine and co-creator of Caras EGO. He has been a contributor to Caras Magazine, The Clinic, El Dínamo (Chile); Perfil.com, Noticias Magazine (Argentina); Nieman Lab, IJNET, and Media Shift (US).

His work appears in three books published in Chile and has been awarded two times in the chilean Journalism Award for Excellence.

Since 2005, he has taught graduate and undergraduate journalism students at four Chilean universities and has been a visiting professor at two universities in Colombia.