Fernando Alfonso III is a staff writer at the Daily Dot, an online news organization that covers communities like Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr, Canvas, and YouTube.
Before joining the Daily Dot, Alfonso worked at The Post-Standard in Syracuse, NY, where he covered crime, education, business and politics. The website for the newspaper is syracuse.com.
Alfonso graduated from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications with a master’s degree in magazine, newspaper and online journalism in 2010. At Newhouse Alfonso was also a minority fellow.
When Alfonso isn’t exploring the Internet for stories, he blogs on the East Coast Post and East Coast Post redux.
His interests include Polaroid photography, letter writing, design, technology, travelling, and turtles.