Getting To Know BuzzFeed's Latino News Team

AdrianCarrasquilloTwitterProfilePicOn the heels of accepting a special award at the 2014 convention of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), BuzzFeed editor Adrian Carrasquillo is getting some nice ink on the west coast.

LA Weekly staff writer Dennis Romero ambled over to BuzzFeed’s west coast headquarters on Beverly Blvd. to meet some of Carrasquillo‘s young charges and learn about the U.S. side of the outlet’s evolving approach to Hispanic news:

Appointed to the position in April, Carrasquillo has been covering the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, reporting on the child immigration crisis on the border and sorting BuzzFeed’s Latino content so that it gets to the virtual front-pages of the site.

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