Oscar Corral

Current

• Managing Partner, LEED AP at Explica Media Solutions

Past

• volunteer at Journalists In Transition
• Multimedia Reporter at The Miami Herald
• Reporter at Newsday

• Reporting Intern at The Chicago Tribune
• student at University of Florida

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Education

• Florida International University
• University of Florida
• Belen Jesuit Preparatory School

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Recommended

6 people have recommended Oscar

Connections

448 connections

Industry

Media Production

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Oscar Corral’s Summary

I started my career as a print reporter, and have now become accustomed to shooting, editing and producing radio and video content for our website, and our partner radio station, WLRN.

In October of 2008, I left the Herald to launch Explica, a multimedia production and consulting company. We want to help companies and startups harness the explosive growth and interest in video.

Oscar Corral’s Specialties:

International affairs, higher education, municipal and state government processes, politics, and green building

Oscar Corral’s Experience

• Managing Partner, LEED AP

  Explica Media Solutions

  (Media Production industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Explica helps clients, including scientists and researchers, explain their projects using multimedia tools for websites, broadcast, podcasts and other digital distribution.

• volunteer

  Journalists In Transition

  (Media Production industry)

  2009 — 2009 (less than a year)

• Multimedia Reporter

  The Miami Herald

  (Public Company; KRI; Newspapers industry)

  September 2001 — October 2008 (7 years 2 months)

• Reporter

  Newsday

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  1998 — 2001 (3 years )

  I covered crime for Newsday in New York.

• Reporting Intern

  The Chicago Tribune

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; trb; Newspapers industry)

  1998 — 1998 (less than a year)

• student

  University of Florida

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 1992 — December 1996 (4 years 5 months)

  University of Florida senior

Oscar Corral’s Education

• Florida International University

  Masters , International Relations , 1997 — 1999

• University of Florida

  Bachelors , journalism , 1992 — 1996

  Activities and Societies:

  Writer at the Independent Florida Alligator, and Orange & Blue Magazine

• Belen Jesuit Preparatory School

  High School , 1987 — 1992

Additional Information

Oscar Corral’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

Oscar Corral’s Groups:

Board of Advisors, Representative Journalism
National Association of Hispanic Journalists, member
Investigative Reporters and Editors, member

•    Online News Association
•    We Media
•    Energy Priorities "Thought Leaders"
•    MiamiLink.org
•    ThoseinMedia
•    Solar Energy Consultants
•    Green & Sustainability Innovators & Innovation Network
•    Linked:Energy (Energy industry expertise)
•    Belen Alumni
•    RENEWABLES AND ENVIRONMENT
•    Wind Energy Professionals
•    Media Professionals Worldwide
•    Society of Professional Journalists
•    Florida Healthcare Industry Networking Group
•    Roots of Hope, Inc.
•    Wind Energy
•    Think Green
•    Solar Energy Network
•    Media & Entertainment Professionals
•    Knight Digital Media Center
•    Producers Network
•    FEDERAL BIZ Network - Government Stimulus Teaming Jobs PMI Consulting Funding Sales Opportunities
•    Solar Energy Professionals - PV & Thermal
•    WORLDWIDE RECRUITER FOR THE SOLAR, WIND AND HYDRO ENERGY INDUSTRIES
•    PRSA Miami
•    Wind Energy Update
•    Metro 1 Green Building Resource Center - Miami
•    Innovation in Journalism
•    Journalists in Transition
•    Future Journo

Oscar Corral’s Honors:

2008 Gene Miller Award for Investigative Reporting, Sunshine State

2008 Associated Press Sports Editors award, finalist

2007 Finalist, Livingston Awards for Young Journalists

2007 Society of Professional Journalists' Sunshine State Awards, Cuban exile issues coverage

2006 Miami Herald nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in beat reporting category, coverage of Cuban exile issues

2006 Society of Professional Journalists’ Sunshine State Award, International/National Security reporting for The Posada Story

2004 The Civic Strategies Urban Journalism Awards; named one of the top 20 urban journalists in the United States in 2003 and 2004

2002 The Green Eyeshade Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, first place with a team of other reporters in deadline reporting for “Terrorists Among Us,” which portrayed the lives and movements of the 9/11 terrorists in Florida

1997-1998 William Randolph Hearst Journalism Awards, 1st place winner National Print Championship

Oscar Corral’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch