Meet the Unit Council and stewards!

Sarah blaskey.jpeg — Sarah Blaskey

Unit Council Vice Chair

When did you start and what was your first job at the Herald?

I started as an intern at the Herald in January 2018. I was hired at the end of my internship as the a municipal government enterprise reporter.

What’s something no one in the newsroom knows about you?

A few people might know this but in my early twenties by sport of choice was flying trapeze.

What are your union goals for 2020?

My goal for our union in 2020 is to find a way to use the infrastructure we have built to protect each other in the hard times and to protect the integrity of our publications. Basically, my goal is that we effectively stand up for journalists and the kind of journalism that makes us and our community proud.

Taylor Dolven

Steward

When did you start and what was your first job at the Herald?

I started in October 2019 as the Tourism Reporter on the Business desk (still my job).

What’s something no one in the newsroom knows about you?

I do horseback riding as a hobby.

What are your union goals for 2020?

My union goals for 2020 are to get the strongest contract possible to protect the journalists of the Herald and the essential service we provide to the Miami community and to continue to build relationships between the staff of El Nuevo Herald and Miami Herald.

Antonio Delgado

Unit Council Vice Chair

When did you start and what was your first job at the Herald?

I entered the Herald as a reporter in 2010 to cover Venezuela and I am still covering the country after 10 years. No regrets though, having a chance to cover my home country has been the most fulfilling experience of my 30-year career. I was an editor at Reuters for a long time and I can testify that reporters honestly have the best jobs in journalism.

What’s something no one in the newsroom knows about you?

I am a Kansas City Chiefs fan and I was eagerly awaiting the game here in Miami.

What are your union goals for 2020?

I hope we manage to obtain job security for all of us in the newsroom. There are some very dark clouds looming in the horizon, but I really hope we can find a formula that would allow us to reach a safe place.

When did you start and what was your first job at the Herald?

I started at the Herald on April 1, 2013. I was really glad that my hire was not an April Fool's joke. My first job was working in neighbors, which doesn't exist anymore, covering the cities of Doral and Hialeah. I covered municipal government in both of those cities for about a year and a half. It was my first gig.

What’s something no one in the newsroom knows about you?

I can write in calligraphy. I learned how to write calligraphy in middle school and sometimes when I write like greeting cards I might sign in calligraphy.

What are your union goals for 2020?

My union goal for 2020 is for everyone in this newsroom to feel like if they want to say something, they have a concern, that they feel like they can be heard. That's my goal is to ensure that there is a robust forum for people to express themselves on issues that concern this newsroom and that they feel safe and confident in expressing themselves on that.

When did you start and what was your first job at the Herald?

I started at the Miami Herald on April 1, 1991, as a part-time lab technician.

What’s something no one in the newsroom knows about you?

I am a classical music nut. Favorite composers are Domenico Scarlatti and Franz Schubert.

What are your union goals for 2020?

My goal is to get the BEST CONTRACT EVER and to work together with my colleagues to make the Miami Herald the best place for journalists to work.

When did you start and what was your first job at the Herald?

I started at the Herald as Tallahassee Bureau chief on the first week of the 2004 legislative session. Jay Ducassi recruited me to join the bureau and I returned to full-time work after 10 years working part-time while our daughters were young.

What’s something no one in the newsroom knows about you?

Give me a paint brush and a palette of acrylics and I can get lost for hours.

What are your union goals for 2020?

To negotiate with MHMC management to elevate better economic and non-economic conditions for a work-life balance and work to nurture innovations that are productive for both our company and its most important asset, its journalists.

When did you start and what was your first job at the Herald?

I started at the Herald in December 2017 as a real-time/general assignment reporter for sports. I became the Marlins beat writer (my current job) in February 2019.

What’s something no one in the newsroom knows about you?

I never originally wanted to be a journalist. I always thought I would go into an analytics-based field until my sophomore year of high school when my English teacher convinced me to take a journalism class. Three months in, I fell in love with it

What are your union goals for 2020?

To see the hard work One Herald Guild has put in over the past year turn into tangible progress and improvements throughout the newsrooms.

When did you start and what was your first job at the Herald?

May 22, 1989. After my internship on the Sports Desk during hte summer, I was the Neighbors Northwest/North Central office Sports guy from September 1989-April 1993.

What’s something no one in the newsroom knows about you?

I still occasionally play with racing sets or reality-based college football board games (and keep stats with the latter).

What are your union goals for 2020?

Give everyone a sense of support and, as much as possible, security so we can do our best work.

Nick

Nehamas

Steward

When did you start and what was your first job at the Herald?

I started in 2014 as a reporter on the healthcare team covering Obamacare.

What’s something no one in the newsroom knows about you?

My guilty pleasure is ice cream bars from Gilly.

What are your union goals for 2020?

Making sure we have the resources to preserve the Herald’s decades’long commitment to accountability journalism.

When did you start and what was your first job at the Herald?

I started in 2016 as part of a collaboration between the Herald and 14ymedio.

What’s something no one in the newsroom knows about you?

I am a fan of olives and met Celia Cruz when I left Cuba.

What are your union goals for 2020?

Make el Herald great again.

When did you start and what was your first job at the Herald?

I started at the robust, creative and super cool Miami Herald straight out of college in the last century, 1983, when mayhem ruled and the city where I grew up was declared “Paradise Lost” (according to TIME). I started as a sports writer in Neighbors, and I filed Friday night football stories in a 7-Eleven parking lot from a pay phone I shared with a drug dealer who always asked me the score and offered a discount. (This was when Neighbors was actually really good and reporters included Mindy Marques, Casey Frank, Jacquie Charles, Sue Faludi, Joel Achenbach, Michael Kranish, Charles Rabin, Lizette Alvarez, David Neal and a cast of thousands).

What’s something no one in the newsroom knows about you?

I used to do my laundry with Michael Jordan, in Chapel Hill, NC.

What are your union goals for 2020?

Aside from aiding in our drive for a historic OHG contract, building a more compassionate workplace where employees are respected and valued.

DouglasRojas-Sosa 1 00044JAI.JPG — Douglas Rojas-Sosa

Steward

When did you start and what was your first job at the Herald?

I started at the Miami Herald in 2005 as a copy editor for the Universal Copy Desk. I was a copy editor/designer for Neighbors three days a week, and two days a week I was part of the Copy Desk.

What’s something no one in the newsroom knows about you?

I can play the "berimbau", a one-string musical instrument used in the Brazilian martial art Capoeira.

What are your union goals for 2020?

-Promote the mission and goals of One Herald Guild

-Facilitate communication channels from staff to OHG and newsroom leadership.

-Get more people involved in OHG and help strengthen our newsroom.

When did you start and what was your first job at the Herald?

My first day at the Herald was Dec. 17, 2018. I was hired as a real time reporter.

What’s something no one in the newsroom knows about you?

My last name comes from a small wine town in southern France. My family and I visited Tavel once, and everyone treated us as royalty.

What are your union goals for 2020?

My hope is OHG will continue to foster strong relationships among coworkers at the Herald.

When did you start and what was your first job at the Herald?

I started at the Miami Herald (I think) on Halloween Day 1983.

What’s something no one in the newsroom knows about you?

I was a choirboy. Seriously. Sang for Pope John 6th in St. Peter's Christmas eve and Christmas day masses, opening of holy year, 1975 (?).

What are your union goals for 2020?

Get a contract! Get everyone possible on board, participating as much as possible, and knowing their rights.

When did you start and what was your first job at the Herald?

I started at the Miami Herald in August 1999 as a metro staff reporter covering the civil and criminal courts, and later became the federal courts reporter covering mainly crime.

What’s something no one in the newsroom knows about you?

I got my first job in journalism at the Rome Daily American in 1980 and speak Italian pretty well.

What are your union goals for 2020?

My goal for OHG in 2020 is a collective bargaining agreement with fair and equitable wages and benefits for all members, along with strong protections for job security.

Meet the Unit Council and stewards!

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