Nancy San Martín

Nancy San Martín, Managing Editor at el Nuevo Herald, is in charge of the newspaper’s day-to-day operations and responsible for growing the digital audience.

She also leads the team of reporters covering Cuban affairs and other beats for both el Nuevo Herald and the Miami Herald.

San Martín is a near-native Miamian, born in East Los Angeles (of a Cuban father and a Mexican-American mother) but raised in Miami, She attended Miami Dade College Managing Editor at el Nuevo Herald and graduated from Florida International University.

She started her career in journalism as a college intern for the Miami Herald’s Neighbors section. She was hired after graduation and spent three years covering South Florida’s diverse communities. In 1992, San Martín joined the Sun Sentinel, in Ft. Lauderdale, where her responsibilities as immigration reporter led to overseas assignments in Cuba, Haiti and other Caribbean nations.

In 1998, San Martín moved to the Dallas Morning News, where she was chief of the border bureau covering Mexico and neighboring U.S. states. She returned to the Herald in 2001 as a member of the World Desk, where her coverage took her across the globe, from the war in Afghanistan and devastation in post-earthquake Haiti to political turmoil across the Americas and the economic meltdown in Puerto Rico.

San Martín is a Harvard Nieman Fellow and served on the board of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists from 1990-94. She was also part of a team that was honored with the Suncoast Emmy Awards for feature-length documentaries that aired nationally on PBS, the first in 2011 for “Nou Bouke: Haiti’s Past, Present and Future” and again in 2014 for “The Day It Snowed In Miami.”