Jazmín Acuña
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Jazmín Acuña is an impact strategist and consultant with the Pulitzer Center’s Impact Initiative, where she supports journalists and newsrooms in designing, tracking, and strengthening the impact of their reporting. She has also been a journalist grantee with the Center as co-founder of El Surtidor, an award-winning digital outlet from Paraguay known for its visual, investigative and impact-driven journalism.
As a Reuters Institute Journalist Fellow in 2025, Acuña developed Change-centric Journalism, a framework that helps media leaders, editors, and journalists move beyond a content-centric approach and build journalism with clearer pathways to public value and change. She has served as a mentor, trainer, and speaker for organizations including WAN-IFRA, the International Press Institute, Fundación Gabo, and the Pulitzer Center.
As part of El Surtidor, Acuña received the Gabo Award for innovation and the Ortega y Gasset Award for investigative journalism in a regional collaboration led by El CLIP. Under her leadership, the outlet has also been finalist for both the International Press Institute Free Media Pioneer Award and the Sigma Awards.
