Selymar Colón is an award-winning journalist, she is the GFR Media's Digital Strategy Director at El Nuevo Día. She is also founder and editor in chief of Frame ONE Strategies, where they provide consultancy to newsrooms in Spanish and English with the mission to empower underserved communities with high-quality journalism. Colón spent the 2019-2020 academic year as a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. She served as editor-in-chief of digital news at Univision, and her efforts contributed to Univision News winning multiple awards.
A digital pioneer, Colón championed the use of social media in the newsroom and created the first team of multimedia news producers to incorporate digital-only videos into the company’s news strategy. She has field produced special coverages, Haiti earthquake (2010), FIFA World Cup (2010), President Barack Obama’s second inauguration among others. She was named a 40 under 40: Latinos in American Politics by the Huffington Post, holds an M.S. in Investigative Journalism from Florida International University and a B.A. in Communications and Business from Lynn University.