Draft:Paul Aloonso

Paul Alonso (born 1978 in Lima, Peru) works as a journalist, author, and assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also the director of Polivision (a bilingual media outlet of Latin American cultures based in Atlanta, Georgia) and the Global Media Festival (an annual film festival focused on sustainability issues). Prior to his work at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Alonso worked at the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas for over a decade and wrote for the Spanish newspaper El Pais.

Alonso's writings are focused on alternative journalism, culture, and infotainment in Latin America and the United States. His first nonfiction book, Satiric TV in the Americas: Critical Metatainment as Negotiated Dissent (2018), centers on the intersection between journalism, politics, entertainment, satire, and popular culture in Latin America.

He received a M.A. in Journalism and Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007, followed by a Ph.D. in Journalism from the same university in 2012.

Books

 * Satiric TV in the Americas: Critical Metatainment as Negotiated Dissent (Oxford University Press, 2018).
 * Thirty Years of Entertainment and Politics in Peru (Editorial Planeta, 2022).