Selymar Colón is an award-winning journalist, currently working as Managing Director of Platea Media in Puerto Rico. 

Prior, Colón was the Director and Executive Director for Digital at GFR Media, leading the digital editorial and reader revenue strategies for two local newspapers El Nuevo Día and Primera Hora. 

In 2022, Colón joined the Center for Media Integrity for the Americas as a member of the Board of Advisors.

Colón spent the 2019-2020 academic year as a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard where she took courses on leadership with a focus on diverse and inclusive teams and culture, successful business strategies and innovation.

Before her fellowship, she served as editor-in-chief of digital news at Univision, where she built a team of multimedia journalists and drove the network’s digital integration. 

She rose up the ranks as producer for Univision’s Sunday public affairs show, Al Punto, hosted by Jorge Ramos, renowned journalist and co-anchor of Univision’s award-winning evening news program “Noticiero Univision.”

A digital pioneer, she championed the use of social media in the newsroom early on among producers and journalists, which then led her to be promoted to a newly-created position of director of digital integration. In this role she was charged with creating a team of multimedia producers to produce digital only videos liaising with the digital and broadcast newsroom.