Salvador Rodriguez is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, working as the lead reporter on its Tech Now blog. He is also a publisher of the Downtown Devil, an online publication he co-founded in early 2009 and managed for nearly three years.

Salvador, a bilingual journalist, is an alum of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, where he earned his master's and bachelor's degrees in journalism as well as a specialization in business reporting.

Salvador worked for many news organizations while attending ASU, including the New York Times Phoenix Bureau, the Houston Chronicle, the Arizona Republic and the Arizona Capitol Times. Salvador was selected as a 2011 Chips Quinn Scholar, and in 2010 he was chosen to participate in the New York Times Student Journalism Institute in Tucson, Ariz.

Salvador has covered business, political and breaking news as well as written feature and enterprise stories. He has experience editing copy, shooting video and taking pictures, and he is also proficient at Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Final Cut, Wordpress and HTML.