Cuban blogger gets Journalism Award

This should be an inspiration to a lot of bloggers out there. A Cuban blogger, a 32-year old woman named Yoani Sanchez, received a Spanish Journalism award for her 13-month old blog.

Yoani’s blog, Generation Y, was awarded by “Ortega y Gasset Prize” in Digital Journalism (named after a Spanish philosopher). Sanchez was however unable to leave Cuba to go to Spain and personally received the award herself.

This is a huge feat for a one year old blog and it clearly shows that you don’t need to be a western blogger to get as much recognition in the field of journalism. Yoani, though, is one in a million.

On another front, that New York Time’s article about blogging as a health risk is just pure bull. In this and age, anything can kill you. In the Philippines, there’s a much higher risk of dying from singing in a karaoke along street bars than blogging 24/7 in the confines of your own room.

However, this video below may shed some light on this issue:

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

10 Comments

gladita says:

17 years ago

She’s also named by Time as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.
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animomedia.com says:

17 years ago

Blogging is fun, it’s not stressful. Whats making its stressful is when you don’t love what you’re. So if you’re only forced to blog. Then thats where stress come from. –
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animomedia.com says:

17 years ago

Blogging is fun, it’s not stressful. Whats making its stressful is when you don’t love what you’re. So if you’re only forced to blog. Then thats where stress come from.
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animomedia.com says:

17 years ago

Blogging is fun, it’s not stressful. Whats making its stressful is when you don’t love what you’re.
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animomedia.com says:

17 years ago

yuga theres something wrong with this comment box you are using. :(
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animomedia.com says:

17 years ago

its hard to use your comment box
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Andre says:

17 years ago

nice video lol
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Jon Orana says:

17 years ago

Hahaha. Nice video. :)
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autocad says:

17 years ago

The video is just a big joke. What is more horrifying is being with a midget, idiot and bully manager for 10 years! You can see that creep in Small precision tools Philippines in libertad, mandaluyong.
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