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AARON J. MONTES
C O N T A C T
(915) 777-4154
www.aaronjmontes.pressfolios.com
3349 Freeport,
El Paso, TX 79935 STAFF WRITEREl Paso Inc. | March 2017 - Jan 2019
Develop breaking news and enterprise stories for the weekly newspaper and
elpasoinc.com.
Build strong relationships with sources to produce unique and hard-hitting stories
for readership.
Photograph and produce art to go along with stories.
Produce video packages to accompany major stories.
Routinely use open records laws to unearth data and documents to produce stories.
Aaron J. Montes is a multimedia journalist based in El Paso, Texas along the U.S.
Mexico Border. As a staff writer for El Paso Inc., he covers city politics, business and
provides updates on Mexico from Juárez. He's freelanced for the Los Angeles Times
and NBC News delivering the latest on the death of a Guatemalan child while in
Customs and Border Protection's custody, Central American migrants arriving at the
border, asylum seekers turned away at ports-of-entry and an encampment of migrant
children in Tornillo, TX.
E X P E R I E N C E
A B O U T
MULTIMEDIA REPORTER
SOCIAL MEDIA CONSULTING AND REPORTER
INTERN
El Diario de El Paso | Nov. 2016 - March 2017
Voices of NY (Web News Service) | June 2015 - March 2017
NBC Universal | September 2015 - Dec. 2015
Develop breaking news and enterprise stories for the daily Spanish newspaper with
angles suitable to run in El Paso, TX and Juárez, Mexico.
Photograph events and individuals to accompany stories.
Use open records laws to obtain data and documents for stories.
Provide analysis and monitoring of social media activity on the publication's
website and social media accounts.
Report stories with accompanying photos and video packages of issues affecting
immigrant communities in New York City.
Wrote and pitched stories for NBC's owned television station websites.
Create web modules with embedded media.
Society of Professional Journalists
National Association of Hispanic Journalists
The El Paso Press Club
KNIGHT-CUNYJ Summer Diversity
Fellow - Received hands-on-training
from journalism professors and New
York City-based media professionals.
E D U C A T I O N
BACHELOR OF ARTS: MEDIA COMMUNICATION2015
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX
C O M P U T E R S K I L L S
Adobe Creative Suite
Microsoft Office Suite
MixMax
Bitly
Tweetdeck
Plotly
fb.me/aaronjmontesreports
@aaronmontes91
@aaronmontes91
S O C I A L
O R G A N I Z A T I O N S A N D T R A I N I N G