Rodrigo Rodriguez

Rodrigo Rodríguez Flor is a Colombian journalist who has worked in the field for over nine years. His experience revolves around printed media. Rodríguez Flor collaborated with the national newspaper El Espectador in the coverage of the Petronio Álvarez music festival in 2013. In 2014 he was a freelance photographer for El Pueblo, a local newspaper in Cali. Most recently, he worked for four years as a full-time journalist at revista DONJUAN, a Colombian magazine. He specialized in feature articles and has a keen interest in scientific and environmental subjects. As a freelance writer, he has been published in several media outlets like Rolling, Stone Colombia, El Tiempo, Bacánika, Pacifista, Credencial, and Vice Media.

For the last four years, Rodrigo has been working as a podcast producer, participating in audio projects for companies and institutions like El Tiempo, BBC, Sentiido, Sillon Estudios, and more. Alongside Maru Lombardo, he reported, produced, edited and wrote the true-crime series El Hombre Equivocado (2019), for Revista Donjuan and El Tiempo. The series chronicles the conviction and fight for freedom of a man wrongly incarcerated for a terrorist attack in which he was not involved. It also tells other short tales of people who have been victims of the negligence or malice of the Colombian judicial system. The podcast sewas awarded the Kienyke Digital Journalism National Award for Best Chronicle (2020) and the WAN-IFRA Award for Best Audio Project (2020). Rodriguez Flor is also the creator of Recetario Sonoro de Ingredientes en Peligro, a podcast published by HJCK Radio (Colombia) that combines cooking and environmental reporting when talking about the ingredients in our kitchen.

Rodrigo is also a producer at Podcastinación, the biggest independent podcast festival in Latin America. He's responsible for creating Escuela Podcastinación, an academic and pedagogic space in which podcasters from all over the continent can discuss and share their ideas, stories, methodologies, experiences, and more to new and veteran podcasters alike.