Edward Schumacher-Matos

Edward Schumacher-Matos is the CEO and founder of Rumbo Newspapers and Meximerica Media, a chain of four Spanish-language dailies in Texas. Schumacher-Matos began his career as a reporter at the Patriot Ledger before moving on to the Philadelphia Inquirer. For nearly a decade afterwards, Schumacher-Matos worked at the New York Times, first as the New York City economic-development reporter and later as bureau chief in Buenos Aires and in Madrid, respectively. He left the Times in 1988 to write a book. In 1991 he returned to New York as director of the Spanish Institute, a private cultural and public affairs institute dedicated to U.S.-Spain relations. In 1993 he joined the Wall Street Journal, where he became the founding editor and associate publisher of the Wall Street Journal Americas. His research at the Shorenstein Center focused on the evolution of cable news toward more opinionated journalism as seen in the case study of Lou Dobbs.