MARIA INES MIRO-QUESADA

Maria Ines Miro-Quesada is an assistant professor at the WVU Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism where she teaches online magazine production. Her professional experience includes magazines, websites and radio.

Miro-Quesada received her master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia where she was awarded the Tina Hills Fellowship, given every two years to a Latin American journalist. She specialized in Media Management and New Technologies. Her master’s thesis is a case study that analyzes a successful converged news operation from an organizational and             managerial point of view identifying stages in the process, challenges and opportunities to embrace convergence. Miro-Quesada earned her bachelor’s     degree in journalism from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, in Lima,    Peru, where she is originally from.

Before coming to WVU, she worked as online director for Global Journalist international magazine and as producer for Global Journalist radio program. She was also the online editor for Investigative Reporters and Editors en Español and the managing editor at Adelante, the bilingual magazine published by the Missouri School of Journalism.

In Peru, she was the Web director and editor for the National Office of Electoral Processes, the national agency in charge of planning and executing electoral processes in that country. The website she developed and oversaw won the Best Peruvian Website for 2004 for transparency in information. During her career, she has worked in the development of two national magazines in Peru and several websites; edited and written for both media in Peru and the United States; and produced radio shows in both countries.

Miro-Quesada is a member of Kappa Tau Alpha, the National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communication.