{"id":502820,"date":"2026-03-23T22:07:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/journalist-jorge-rodriguez-a-reference-in-cultural-journalism-in-puerto-rico-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:10:49","slug":"journalist-jorge-rodriguez-a-reference-in-cultural-journalism-in-puerto-rico-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/journalist-jorge-rodriguez-a-reference-in-cultural-journalism-in-puerto-rico-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Jorge Rodr\u00edguez, a reference in cultural journalism in Puerto Rico, passes away."},"content":{"rendered":"The prominent cultural journalist, writer, and playwright Jorge Rodr\u00edguez, who worked for a large part of his life at EL VOCERO, has passed away.\n\nRodr\u00edguez began in journalism as a theater critic for the newspapers El Nuevo D\u00eda (1980-1982), El Reportero (1983-1986) and El Mundo (1986-1990). He directed the magazine Ahora of the Diario de Puerto Rico from 1993 to 1994. From 1994 to 2013 he worked as a journalist specializing in cultural issues for the newspaper El Vocero of Caribbean International News and then remained as a reporter of cultural issues for the Escenario section of EL VOCERO of Puerto Rico, of Publi-Inversiones.\n\nThe journalistic work of Rodr\u00edguez, who was also a playwright, screenwriter, theater director, and actor, was recognized on dozens of occasions by local journalistic guilds such as the Puerto Rico Journalists Association and the Overseas Press Club. The latter awarded him one of its highest honors on two occasions: the Eddie L\u00f3pez Award for Journalistic Excellence in 2007 and 2015 for his series “Culture in times of corruption” and “Cultural Series of 2000-2006”, respectively; in addition to the Cultural Journalism Medal in 2015.\n\n\n
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The Center for Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean also awarded Rodr\u00edguez the Ricardo Alegr\u00eda Medal in 2011, and in 2010 he was the only Puerto Rican journalist invited to participate in the International Conference of Cultural Journalism of the Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez New Journalism Foundation in Madrid, Spain. The Pen Club of Puerto Rico also recognized his work as a theater critic for his writings compiled in the book \u201cAreytos del 80\u201d published in 2003 and where he presents the artistic work carried out on the Island from 1980 to 1989. And in 1992 his report \u201cFiestas de Santiago\u201d was<\/a> recognized with the V Centenary Award in 1992, among other distinctions.\n\nRodr\u00edguez, author of more than twenty special series of art and culture journalism, was a correspondent for Puerto Rico for the coverage of cultural activity in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia; as well as in France, Spain, Morocco, The Vatican, Bulgaria, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, New York, Washington DC and Tanzania, among others.\n\n\n

Source: EL VOCERO<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The prominent cultural journalist, writer, and playwright Jorge Rodr\u00edguez, who worked for a large part of his life at EL VOCERO, has passed away. Rodr\u00edguez began in journalism as a theater critic for the newspapers El Nuevo D\u00eda (1980-1982), El Reportero (1983-1986) and El Mundo (1986-1990). He directed the magazine Ahora of the Diario de […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26O0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}