Maria Burns Ortiz
Maria Burns Ortiz is a social media columnist for ESPN.com and writes a weekly sports column for Fox News Latino.
She began her career as an editorial assistant at Sports Illustrated, spent two years as a sports reporter at The (Fort Wayne, Indiana) News-Sentinel, was a regular stringer for the Associated Press and has produced freelance content for numerous media outlets.
She covered soccer for ESPNSoccernet from 2006 through 2010 and have been a contributor to ESPN.com’s Page 2 since 2009. In March 2011, she was named the social media columnist for ESPN.com.
Since October 2010, she has been a contributor to Fox News Latino. That role was expanded in January 2011, and she now writes a weekly column for the site.
She was the Region 2 director on the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Board of Directors from July 2009 to June 2011. A lifetime member of NAHJ, she is currently the Sports Task Force chair.
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