Cuba's Island Of Broken Dreams Summary

Nick Miroff is the Washington Post’s Latin America correspondent. He is not assigned to one particular country. In fact, when I began the research for this paper, he had stories from more than five Latin American countries. Miroff attended the University of California at Santa Cruz for his undergraduate degree, where he majored in Spanish and Latin American Literature. For his Master’s degree, he attended the University of California at Berkley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he graduated in 2006. According to his biography featured on the Post’s website, that same year, he began working for the Washington Post as a staff writer, where he would report on issues including politics, immigration, and crime, and until 2009 he worked in Virginia

I did notice for his coverage of Cuba, he seems to include more testimony and dialogue, more narration and imagery. In his story titled “Cuba’s island of broken dreams”, the article takes on great scenes which Miroff is able to develop through vivid language. He is very suspenseful and mysterious in this piece. It is not very clear whether it can be considered a hard news or feature story, because it incorporates elements of both styles. However, the end result is a very deep piece that ultimately leaves the reader with many personal questions about tourism in the

Nick Miroff has many great qualities, such as the ability to create suspense and narratives through facts and statistics. However, even though most of his stories are hard news style, he should really consider writing more feature articles. Miroff should also be a more active member in social media, because today’s journalist must be open to the multimedia. His words are able to transport the readers to these worlds that seem magical, in Colombia’s case, and to places few have ever been but all can only fantasize about visiting one day, such us the beautiful island of Cuba, as well as many other magnificent countries in Latin America that he has the privilege to cover as a foreign