Carlos M. Castañeda was born in Havana, Cuba, on February 8, 1932. He died in Lisbon, Portugal, on October 10, 2002

PROFESSIONAL

1999 to 2000
EL NUEVO HERALD, Miami, Florida
Editor and Publisher. Upon assuming this position, completely redesigned the newspaper.

1990-1999 EL NUEVO DIA, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Vice-president/Editorial, Member of the Board of Directors, El Dia, Inc. Member of the Board of Strategy and Planning, and consultant to the President on new projects, El Dia, Inc.

1970-1990 EL NUEVO DIA
Editor-in-Chief
Relocated from New York in 1970 to build a newspaper from scratch: moving a small-town newspaper, El Dia, to the island capital and renaming it El Nuevo Día. This innovative newspaper took a position in the market as a daily magazine, attractive in appearance, well organized, no jumps, with excellent photographs and well edited text. In those days, the only newspaper that had a graphic designer in its staff. It was aimed to the upper and middle classes in urban areas and to a new generation of readers, visually oriented under the influence of TV, and to a generation of better educated and sophisticated islanders. The newspaper was also very strong in sports and TV personalities to attract the lower middle and popular sectors.

Open to the entire spectrum of ideologies and the intelligentsia of Puerto Rican society. Several readership surveys showed the strongest support to be in the 18 to 45 year segment of the population. From the start, El Nuevo Dia was a crusader for the rights of the consumers and against corruption in the Police Department and the government. In 1981 the paper instigated a Federal investigation that sent more than a dozen Police officers to jail.

By December, 1972, circulation had jumped from 16,000 to 102,000 copies, and the bottom line was in black. Several years later, in 1978, the Sunday edition was established, and El Nuevo Día surpassed the circulation of the all time leading newspaper El Mundo . Finally, El Mundo folded in August, 1987 and El Nuevo Dia turned into the main advertising media in the Island, with revenues that surpassed the three main TV stations put together. By 1997, revenues reached $160,000,000 and circulation was 212,000 copies daily and 234,000 on Sunday.

1960-1965 BOHEMIA LIBRE Magazine, New York.
1960-63 Editor and correspondent for special assignments in Latin America.
1963-64 Washington correspondent at the White House and the State Department.

1965-69 LIFE en Español, New York.
Assistant Managing Editor.
1966 -In charge of the coverage of the World Cup, London
1965 Correspondent for special assignments in Washington and Latin America.
1965 Editor, New York.
1964 Washington stringer for Life en Español.

1950-1959 BOHEMIA Magazine, Havana, Cuba
1956-1960 Special assignments reporter.
1955 Roving correspondent in Europe.
1954-55 Reporter and correspondent.

1959-60 CMQ-TV, Havana, Cuba.
Regular member in the news panel Ante la Prensa, a Cuban version of Meet the Press

1957-59 Channel 12/Color TV, Havana, Cuba.
Editor and anchor

1955-57 DIARIO NACIONAL, Havana, Cuba.
Special assignments reporter.

1950-53 EL MUNDO, Havana, Cuba.
Sports writer and page layout editor, 1949-53.

1953 EL MUNDO EN TELEVISION, Havana, Cuba. News editor.
1952 Sports anchor

1946-1949 LA VOZ DEL AIRE, Havana Cuba.
1948 Sports commentator in a daily radio program.

1946-1948 Cuba Deportiva, Avance, Alerta and Diario de la Marina, Havana, Cuba.

Free lance writer for the sports section

EDUCATION

1953-54 University of Missouri, School of Journalism.
(Scholarship for graduate work from the Institute of International Education, Washington, D.C.).

1949-53 School of Journalism, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba.

1950-51 Advertising and Public Relations, Summer School, University of Havana,

AWARDS

1956 and 1959 Premio Nacional de Periodismo, Juan Gualberto Gómez, Havana, Cuba.

1978 Academia de Arte e Historia de Puerto Rico/Journalism.

1982 to 1990 Society of Newspaper Design: Six awards of Excellence in newspaper design, including the Overall Design Award for El Nuevo Día (1987).

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Inter American Press Association, member of the Board of Directors.

American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Society of Newspaper Design.
1974-2002
INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT ON EDITORIAL CONTENT
AND DESIGN FOR NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES

1998 - La Capital, Rosario, Argentina.
1997 - Primera Hora, a sister publication of El Nuevo Dia,. (started from scratch).
1996 - En Sociedad, Sunday magazine for Hoy, Dominican Republic.
1995 - 96 Diario Popular, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1995 - El Universo, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
1994 - El Nuevo Herald, Miami, Florida.
1994 - El Nacional, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1993 - Hoy, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1992-93 - UNO, Mendoza, Argentina. (started from scratch).
1992 - Vanguardia Liberal, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
1992 - El Universal, Cartagena, Colombia..
1992 - La Tarde, Pereira, Colombia.
1992 - Nueva, a female oriented Sunday magazine for Diarios Asociados,

Bogotá, Colombia.

1991-92 - La Prensa, Panamá. (restarted after being closed for a year)

1990-91 - Rumbo, a weekly news magazine, and Triunfo, a weekly sports

magazine, owned by Editorial La Nación, San José, Costa Rica.

1990 - La Prensa, Managua, Nicaragua.

1987 - Hoy, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

1987 - El Nacional, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

1986 - El Tribuno, Salta, Argentina.

1985 - Novedades, Yucatan, Mexico.

1984 - Afinal, a weekly news magazine, Sao Paulo, Brazil. (started from scratch).

1984 - El Colombiano, Medellin, Colombia.

1983 - El Universal, Cartagena, Colombia. (started from scratch).

1982 - Vanguardia Liberal, Bucaramanga, Colombia.

1978 - La Prensa, Panamá. (started from scratch).

1976-77 - El Herald, Miami, Florida. (started from scratch).

1974-75-76 - La Nación, San José, Costa Rica.



1974 to 2000



CONDUCTOR OF LECTURES AND SEMINARS



Inter American Press Association Technical Center.

Society of Newspaper Design.

National Newspaper Association of Colombia.

National Advertising Association of Colombia.

Association of Mexican Newspapers Editors.

Ibero-American Institute of Cultural Cooperation, Madrid.

Spanish Society of Newspaper Editors, Madrid.

Florida International University, Center for Central American Journalisst.

Universidad Autónoma, Guadalajara, México.

Universidad Simon Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela.

Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Universidad del Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina.

Universidad de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina.

Newspapers: La Nación, San José, Costa Rica; Hoy, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; UNO, Mendoza, Argentina; Ocho Columnas, Guadalajara, México.






PERSONAL

Married to Lillian in March 1957. Father of four grown children, Emily, Eduardo, Aileen and Tanya and grandfather of seven.

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