Tomás Linn

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Tomás Linn (born November 16, 1950 in Montevideo ) is a Uruguayan journalist and lecturer.

Life

Tomás Linn began his journalistic training in Buenos Aires at the Instituto Grafotécnico of the Escuela Superior de Periodismo , which he attended from 1970 to 1972. From 1974 to 1982 he worked first as a chronicler and later as a senior editor ("Subsecretario de Redacción") at the daily newspaper El Diario . In 1982 he worked for the Reuters agency and from that year until 1987 as the editor in charge of the magazines Opción and Aquí . During this period he also attended professional specialization seminars at the University of Austin, Texas in 1983 and three years later in East Berlin . From 1986 to 1988 he wrote for the magazine Cuadernos de Marcha and from 1987 to 1988 for Punto y Aparte . In 1988 he worked briefly on the program "En Perspectiva" on parliamentary television (Emisora ​​del Palacio) and on Canal 5's midday magazine . In 1995 he received a one-year professional development scholarship in the United States at the University of Maryland. Linn, who occasionally writes for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador from Bogotá , has been a political columnist for the Búsqueda since 1989 and has also appeared as a book author. In 1989 he wrote "De buena fuente - Una aproximación al periodismo político", wrote "Los temas sobre la mesa" in 1994 and published "Pasión, rigor y libertad" in 2000. In 2004 "Los Nabos de Siempre" appeared, four years later he published "Así concebidas. Nuestras democracias imperfectas". Linn is also a lecturer in journalism at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga (UCUDAL). He also taught at the Universidad de Montevideo .

Publications

  • "De buena fuente - Una aproximación al periodismo político", 1989
  • "Los temas sobre la mesa", 1994
  • "Pasión, rigor y libertad", 2000
  • "Los Nabos de Siempre", 2004
  • "Así concebidas. Nuestras democracias imperfectas", 2008

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TOMÁS LINN (Spanish), accessed March 9, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Linn, Tomás
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan journalist and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo