Manuel Ortiz

Manuel Ortiz is a national award-winning digital journalist, social researcher and professor with more than 16 years’ experience in issues concerning social justice, technology and society as well as labor and environmental migration in different countries like Mexico, the United States, Colombia, Cuba, Bolivia, El Salvador, Japan and France. He had taught Sociology, Multimedia and Communication at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he was the director and founder of the Multimedia Laboratory for Social Research. He has also taught documentary multimedia workshops and talks at the Santa Clara State University; Loyola University, News Orleans; Stanford University.

Manuel Ortiz collaborates with Alianza Metropolitan News writing local stories about the most vulnerable people, social justice and politics. Manuel has won several awards in political editorials and community reports for Alianza News.

Ortiz has a BA in Sociology and MD in Documentary Filmmaking.