Founder & Editorial Director
An Emmy Award-winning journalist and cultural strategist, José Martínez founded VOZ NYC to amplify the power of storytelling from both sides of the conversation—immigrants and lifelong New Yorkers, insiders and outsiders, those building home and those redefining it.
With a career spanning CBS News Bay Area, NY1 Noticias, El Diario, and 69 News — as well as El Tiempo and Citytv Bogotá in Colombia — José has spent more than a decade reporting stories that challenge systems, uplift communities, and reimagine identity in motion. His work has tackled labor rights, immigration, gentrification, education, and cultural memory across the Latinx diaspora, from New York City Hall to the Mission District of San Francisco. He’s also served as an immigration analyst for BronxNet News, a correspondent for Ycodendaute Radio in Tenerife, Spain, and was Editor-in-Chief of Noticia Long Island, where he created and hosted the award-winning talk show Café con José.
At VOZ NYC, José brings together years in the newsroom with an editorial voice shaped by his roots in Colombia, his reporting across New York, California, and communities up and down the East Coast—and a commitment to building something different: a bilingual platform powered by equity, honesty, and creative freedom.
This isn’t just a media brand. It’s a movement—led by a storyteller who believes our most powerful stories begin the moment we choose to listen.
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