Reynaldo Gómez

Cuban journalist and news presenter at teleSUR. He holds a degree in Spanish and Literature, but chose social communication as a career due to the influence of his brother who is a journalist. International politics and processes of people's integration have always interested Gómez.

Reinaldo Gomez is one of those people who take advantage of what life offers them. Because from being a "substitute" announcer for the National Television News, he has become one of teleSUR's winning cards. Black, attractive, with impeccable diction, Rey Gómez (his stage name) always displays extensive knowledge of the topics he covers, because he is essentially a cultured man.

As a young man he dreamed of being a language interpreter or expert in International Relations. But life gradually led him toward Teaching. He earned a degree in Spanish and Literature, a career for which he is grateful for completing his humanistic education. From this university degree he owes the theoretical foundation that every professional communicator should possess in terms of Phonetics-Phonology, Morphosyntax, Lexicology and Semantics; as well as Latin, Art History and text analysis (literary or otherwise). From his postgraduate degree in Audiovisual Journalism he owes the complement he needed to complete his training as a press professional.

A lover of languages, he has studied English, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, and Russian.

When he was in his fifth year of university, his classmates and his mother informed him about a Broadcasting workshop. It was the year 2000. He took it, began working in Spiritus radio and a couple of years later moved to television. In both media he was always linked (perhaps due to his vocal range and aesthetic training) to news and cultural programs.

He arrived in Havana from CentroVisión (the telecenter in Sancti Spíritus) in July 2007. At the call of Froilán Arencibia—then Vice President of ICRT for the TVC News System—he went to provide services at the News broadcast for a month, but returned to his native province two months later. In December of that year they called him again, with an invitation to stay, and he did.

He worked on the magazine Buenos Días, on the Midday News, on the Prime Time Edition (by decision of his managers he became the substitute for the renowned presenter Rafael Serrano, sharing with Agnés Becerra); the Closing Edition, among other programs...

He owes radio the education of his voice, how to place it to project without shouting, how to modulate each genre, the development of live discourse skills, "losing his fear" of the microphone... In short, radio was his first laboratory. But it was also his first stage as a media employee, as he experienced for the first time there labor discipline, arriving (at minimum) a couple of hours before going on air and returning home no matter what time, with the satisfaction of duty fulfilled.

In April 2011, the President of ICRT told him that they were waiting for him in Caracas to work at teleSUR. In May of that year he headed to Caracas, and he is still there. It hasn't been easy, but it also hasn't been as difficult as he initially imagined.