Author Archives: Xurxo Martinez

About Xurxo Martinez

A web journalist who doesn't write. I have nine-year experience managing information online in Spain. The first three years I worked as a regular journalist in Lavozdegalicia.es, spain' seventh most viewed digital newspaper. Later I decided to move to Madrid, in order to work for Terra Spain (Telefonica group) where I learned to work with multidisciplinary team groups, dealing with design, marketing, advertisement or development tasks. At Yahoo! Spain, as Media Product Manager, I worked hard with providers and developers, and get used to be in a team where one member was in Sunny Valley, other in Bangalore and a few more through the whole Europe. My following work (at ADN.es) was more editorial focused. As Head of News I had 13 people on my team (two sub-editors and several reporters). Later I became Head of Information, managing also the front page team and coordinating Culture, Sports, Science/Tech and Local teams too. Besides from December 2007 to April 2008 I worked in the team that created a whole new CMS (Content Management System) for ADN.es. Later I dealt with the redesign of a News social aggregator web called Fresqui.com. We changed it from a digg-like page to another more similar to an online media and more video and image oriented. After finishing the redesign and before enrolling at UW I worked for two months with the team that was in charge of the development, design and system areas in ADN.es. I helped them to refine a new CMS and to define the structure for the redesign of the spanish motor web www.km77.com. They have the best motor content in Spain but horrible web structure and looks. Social life online Friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/seretuaccidente