A native of Esteli, Nicaragua, Lorena E. López is a seasoned journalist. López started in television journalism in Nicaragua and hosted a popular talk-show for Channel 6, a primary station in her native nation. López, who is bilingual, emigrated to the United States in the 1990s. She worked in a variety of positions, including as a nurse, before launching Denison, Iowa-based LA PRENSA Spanish Language Newspaper with her son, Carlos Arguello, a Des Moines entrepreneur. López, the owner and primary writer and photographer for LA PRENSA, is frequently a guest or source for major national publications and news outlets, such as The Washington Post, The New York Times and Univision, where her views on Latinos in rural areas and observations on the Iowa presidential nominating process are highly sought. She lives in Denison, and her office is located in 109 North Main St.  López can be reached by phone at (712) 790-1563 or by email at [email protected]

Jon Sampson has been doing newspaper publishing design for 25 years. He began working with LA PRENSA in 2007 and has been designing the newspaper’s ads and formatting the articles ever since. Jon lives in Carroll with his wife, Tammera, and two sons, Ben and Everett. His full-time job is Executive Director at Central Church of Carroll.

Douglas Burns, the founder of The Western Iowa Journalism Foundation and The Iowa Mercury, is a fourth – generation Iowa journalist and the former long –time co–owner of the Carroll and Jefferson, Iowa newspapers. Burns is a regular contributor to La Prensa Iowa Spanish language newspaper and Des Moines City View magazine. Burns, who lives in Carroll, Iowa, where he has overseen the newsrooms of his family’s newspapers, has written for Inside Washington Publishers in Washington, D.C., The Palm Beach Post in Florida and the Ames Tribune and Iowa Independent. Burns is also the business development director for Latino IQ, an organization that helps clients build connections in the Iowa’s growing Latino Community. Burns is a member of the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative which features several prominent Iowa authors and journalists. He is the 2019 Carroll (Iowa) Citizen Of The Year. Burns is an alum of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.