Carla Martínez (Editor and Designer)

Hi everyone! My name is Carla Casamayor, editor of Digital Us, and I´m also in charge of the design and the creative side of our project. I´ll be managing Tik Tok as well, so you guys can enjoy news and content in an entertained way. I just want to make it clear, perhaps you didn´t know it, that humor and freedom of expression are two of my basics.

My creative side will be essential for the team

I consider myself really valid, creative and transmissive, since I can communicate within the music, the dance, the writings… surely, all these manners to express can have something to apport in this project. For me, it´s very important cooperation and union inside a teamwork. Someone can be brilliant but it´s better to be reinforced by the team. Brilliant ideas need some process to be carried out, they need to be created but also to be designed, to be shared, to be edited. So from my point of view, the process behind the result is much more important and magic than the result itself. I really like to work in group, but I also like to assume responsibilities. To be honest, although I haven´t found any problem yet, I assume most of the times my “leader” personality may generate some issue. Anyway, I trust my team and I feel like we are capable of going as far as we want. Sometimes not every member in a group fulfills its function at all, I mean, does not imply at the same level as the others, and this is unfortunately reflected in the result. I´m afraid this could happen almost everywhere. I have stressed myself a little bit working with a shared website, I think this is the only actual problem I have found so far. I really like media, design, communication and having “the singing voice” (in the good sense). For that reason, I feel so much identified with the editor personality, I hope I won´t disappoint my team.

My purpose is to learn from this project and try new formulas of informing, who knows if the audience panorama could change if journalists changed some aspects of communicating? Maybe the public, especially young people, has get bored of the same boring news, maybe in this pandemic situation more stimuli are required. If not, we can always go back to the previous format. Let´s try to be professional and let´s try to do journalism differently.