Alberto Cairo

Alberto Cairo joined the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as Assistant Professor in 2005. Before coming to UNC-CH, Professor Cairo worked for La Voz de Galicia and Diario16 (newspapers in Spain) and as a freelance designer for DPI Comunicacisn. He led the creation of the Infographics Department at elmundo.es, which won more NetMedia, Malofiej, and SND.ies design and infographics awards than any other publication in the world between 2000 and 2005. In the 2004 edition of the SND.ies (Society for News Design awards), Professor Cairo's Department won the first gold medal ever given for breaking-news coverage.

He was also a professor of Graphic Communication at Carlos III University in Madrid and has been an invited lecturer at the SND-Malofiej Infographics international conference (Pamplona, Spain), the Symposium of Online Journalism (University of Austin, Texas), the Multimedia Bootcamp (UNC-Chapel Hill) and the World Editors Forum 2005 (WAN/WEF Seoul, Korea). He also has experience as a design and infographics consultant (El Universal/, Mexico).

Professor Cairo administers a website, albertocairo.com, which is considered one of the major international resources for journalistic design and infographics. His main interests are information design, educational and scientifical graphics and visual communication history. He received a master’s degree from the Instituto de Artes Visuales and a B.A. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.