Metro San Juan Editor and Publisher Philipe Schoene Roura commenced his career as the business editor for Puerto Rico Living in 1988. In 1992, Schoene Roura became the founding editor/creative director for San Juan City Magazine. In his role as a journalist, Schoene Roura has covered Puerto Rico politics both on the island and in the federal realm. He is the only journalist in Puerto Rico to have conducted three different interviews with cabinet members of the Clinton Administration. His story “Who the Health Cares?,” drawing parallels between health care reform in Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., helped shape policy on the island. That story is one of seven reported by Schoene Roura to have garnered Overseas Press Club awards over the past 10 years. The editor’s story “Heir Rosselló,” profiling Gov. Pedro Rosselló’s first administration in 1992, was included in “Cultures: Diversity in Reading and Writing.” That anthology, published by Prentice Hall in 1996, includes stories by Mario Vargas Llosa, and other world writers reporting for such publications as Newsweek, Time and The Washington Post. Schoene Roura’s book on Puerto Rico politics is due out in summer 2008.
Valerie López is the associate editor of Metro San Juan. López possesses a master’s degree in journalism from Arizona State University. In her role with San Juan City Magazine, López covered everything from women’s issues to business affairs. López’s specialty is the film industry and performing arts. She is thrice nominated for the Overseas Press Club Arts and Culture Award, winning once in 2004 for her story “The Big Picture.” In her role with Metro San Juan, López will cover women’s affairs and the film industry.
Robert P. Schoene, a communications consultant specializing in international business affairs, brings more than 40 years experience to his post as business editor. In the early 1980s, Schoene served as editor of Caribbean Business, directing the editorial staff and writing editorials, in-depth business pieces and financial stories. He was selected "Journalist of the Year" in 1983 by the Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association for coverage of the congressional debate over Section 936 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. As managing director of Hill & Knowlton Puerto Rico, Inc., (1975-1978), Schoene was responsible for the development and implementation of the national public relations campaign for the Puerto Rico Tourism Company.
As former assistant editor of San Juan City Magazine, Ariana Green won an Overseas Press Club Award ( Puerto Rico chapter) in 2006 for an article on island breast cancer rates. She reported for the New York Times on the controversy surrounding the death of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos and other topics. Through a Fulbright Scholarship, Green earned a master's degree in international journalism from the University of London, and as a Gates Scholar, she earned a master's degree in Social & Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge . While in the UK, she covered terrorism for the New York Times, blogged, and made Times web videos. Her articles and podcasts also appeared in The Guardian. Green previously worked for ABC News in New York and interned at Popular Science Magazine, the Cambridge Chronicle, Boston 's PBS affiliate WGBH, and W.H. Freeman & Worth Publishers. Her nonfiction writing is published in "Jews and American Culture" and "We Got Issues." She is a graduate of Brown University , magna cum laude with honors, and currently writes from Boston , where she is also a stringer with the New York Times New England Bureau.
Huáscar Robles covers the MetroSpace and Arts & Culture beats. Robles began with San Juan Magazine as a reporter covering urban design. Since then, he has moved on to cover arts and culture, reporting on concerts and art exhibits. Robles’ major contribution to the magazine is his understanding of the fashion industry, which was demonstrated in the investigative piece “Fashion Disaster” and special fashion editions he helped coordinate over the past three years. Robles will continue to cover urban space topics and art.
Omaya Sosa Pascual is a freelance journalist with 12 years of experience who has concentrated her career on daily, in-depth and investigative newspaper reporting on topics such as public corruption, politics, economic issues and health. After writing for the monthly La Prensa of New Orleans and the English language daily The San Juan Star, she worked for more than a decade at El Nuevo Día. Many of her local and international stories and series have been recognized with nominations and awards from the Overseas Press Club of Puerto Rico, Journalists' Association of Puerto Rico and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, among other organizations. International newspapers such as Argentina‘s La Nación, Ecuador's El Comercio, and Dominican Republic's El Caribe have also reprinted her stories, and she has collaborated with The New York Times. Presently she is working with the Spanish Broadcasting System to set up the first FM news radio station in Puerto Rico, Red 96.
Ismael Torres has worked since the mid-1970s in several media in Puerto Rico, including radio, television and print press.
Kicking off his career in radio in 1975, Torres became a writer for Associated Press' Puerto Rico and the Caribbean bureau between 1978 and 2003, working as news editor from 1986 until the end of his tenure. As an AP reporter, he traveled abroad on journalistic assignments and, for almost two decades, frequently covered annual meetings for the Inter American Press Association (IAPA).
Torres' experience has given him a full understanding of the relationship among the press, government and private sector as well as subjects of interest to journalists, such as drug trafficking and the pressures experienced under dictatorships.
For over 30 years, Torres has produced and hosted interview and analysis programs for television and radio. Throughout his career, he has covered La Fortaleza, the Puerto Rico Capitol and elections on the island and abroad, which has given him ample knowledge of the electoral process.
He currently hosts and produces two programs for Noti-Uno: “El panel de los sábados” and “La entrevista en caliente, edición de los sábados.” He also manages the quarterly Nuestra Escuela, which serves as a forum for professionals in the academic field.
