Headquartered in Miami, Noticias Newswire is an innovative press release distribution service tailored to serve brands, marketing agencies, small businesses and non-profit organizations. Noticias Newswire offers comprehensive national, state and city-specific distributions to U.S. Hispanic and Puerto Rico media and influencers. Our newswire offers you a wide range of budget-friendly multimedia capabilities and online guaranteed placements that are priced at a fraction of what traditional wire services cost.
Noticias Newswire is 100% Hispanic-owned and operated. Led by an experienced and respected team, the company was founded by accomplished Latino entrepreneurs that built and sold the industry’s first Hispanic press release wire service to British media conglomerate United Business Media in 2008. In addition, they are also the original founding partners of Hispanicize Media Group, that included the iconic annual Hispanicize Event for Latino trendsetters, leading multicultural influencer network DiMe Media (formerly Latina Mom Bloggers), Hispanic Kitchen, Latina Moms and the Hispanic PR Blog, which were sold to John Leguizamo’s media company in 2019. The core team includes wire and Hispanicize alumni, Bill Gato, Manny Ruiz, Cristy Clavijo-Kish and Katherine Johnson Gunn.
Manny Ruiz is the founder of Noticias Newswire and a trailblazer in U.S. Hispanic public relations, media, and influencer marketing. He launched the company in 2013 under its original name, Hispanicize Wire, following the successful sale of Hispanic PR Wire to PR Newswire in 2008. While no longer involved in the company’s day-to-day operations, Manny remains a shareholder and trusted strategic advisor.
Manny also co-founded the nationally recognized Hispanicize Event, which played a central role in launching the U.S. Hispanic influencer marketing movement. Alongside his wife and longtime collaborator Angela Sustaita-Ruiz, he co-founded the Hispanic PR Blog, a leading industry trade site that remains active today under Noticias Newswire.
Currently, Manny serves as Chief Content Officer and co-founder of Brilla Media Ventures, the parent company of Minivela and Nuestro Stories—two digital platforms spotlighting Latino heritage and bicultural storytelling.
Earlier in his career, Manny was the national director of Hispanic media relations at Porter Novelli, where he co-founded the agency’s U.S. Hispanic PR practice. He began his professional journey as a journalist for The Miami Herald, where he was part of the reporting team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Community Service in 1993.
To learn more about Manny, visit his LinkedIn profile.
Bill Gato is an experienced Hispanic digital marketing and public relations expert, an online publishing entrepreneur, and a former Miami Herald journalist. He is also the publisher of the Hispanic PR Blog, a leading trade publication for Hispanic public relations and marketing professionals, published by Noticias Newswire as its content and thought leadership platform.
Since 2014, Bill has led Noticias Newswire as CEO and Partner, overseeing strategic growth, client relationships, and marketing. He is a passionate believer in the underutilized potential of public relations as a branding medium.
Prior to Noticias Newswire, Bill was president and co-founder of Hispanic Digital Network (HDN), the nation’s largest Internet advertising and hosting network of U.S. Hispanic newspapers, magazines, radio stations, and portals. He was responsible for growing HDN’s national online advertising revenues, guiding its strategic vision, and establishing its digital operations. After PR Newswire acquired HDN and its sister companies, Hispanic PR Wire and LatinClips, in 2008, Bill continued at PR Newswire as Vice President for three years.
Earlier in his career, Bill served as Creative Director at Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS), where he won several South Florida A.I.R. (Achievement in Radio) Awards. He began his professional journey as a writer and radio columnist for The Miami Herald.
Jay is an experienced bilingual marketing and communications professional with more than 10 years of experience in project management, planning, market research, data analysis, brand awareness, loyalty and retention, digital marketing, social media, service/product lifecycle strategies and customer engagement.
Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, Jay arrived in the United States at 16. He graduated with a Bachelor’s in Marketing from Florida Atlantic University and a Bachelor’s in Advertising from The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale.
Between 2013 and 2018, Jay served as a marketing coordinator and specialist for Hispanicize Media Group, the parent company of Hispanicize, the largest U.S. Hispanic marketing, social media, influencer, film, music and journalism conference in the United States. During this period, Jay was instrumental in launching Hispanicize Wire, the original namesake of what later became Noticias Newswire.
Prior to Hispanicize Media Group and Hispanicize Wire, Jay worked as a marketing coordinator for LearningU.
Since 2023, Jay has resided with his wife, Alexandra, in Vero Beach, Florida.
Maribel A. Pizá is a child of immigrants and a nationally renowned immigration attorney with three South Florida offices and two radio shows. She is a proud Cuban-American who has devoted her legal career advocating for migrants’ rights.
Maribel is also an entrepreneur and investor in various media, entertainment and restaurant ventures. She is the senior partner, board member, and legal counsel of RetroPop Con, a throwback pop culture convention.
Prior to relocating to Florida in 2006, Maribel was an Assistant District Attorney in New Orleans, where she graduated from Loyola University with a JD/MBA in 2002. She served as a Judicial Law Clerk in Civil District Court in Orleans Parish for the Honorable Sonja Spears.
Maribel got an early taste in business in 1992, when she and a partner bought New Orleans’ Dixie Tavern on Canal Street. Maribel regained the bar’s lost live performance license and developed a recognized live music venue that nurtured local talent and was featured on MTV and VH-1.
Prior to New Orleans, Maribel attended the U.S. Coast Guard Academy from 1986 to 1989 after graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy Prep School in Newport, Rhode Island.
An avid volunteer, Maribel is on the Advisory Council for the Cleveland Orchestra in Miami. She supports tomorrow’s young artists and immigrant students through the Alma Hispana arts scholarship in Palm Beach County and Casa Maya in Lake Worth.
Katherine is a founding partner of Noticias Newswire, and founder and CEO of Influenser.com, a digital trade news platform, online community and pop-up event series that covers and highlights U.S. Hispanic, Latinx and multicultural founders, creators, innovators and influencers who embody the entrepreneurial spirit.
Before launching her latest venture, Katherine was a founding partner of Hispanicize where she co-produced the annual Hispanicize Event.
Prior to joining the Hispanicize team, Katherine held positions with Fleishman-Hillard and Newlink Group working with beauty brands, LATAM clients and handling crisis communications. Previously, Katherine was a producer for the PBS show, Nightly Business Report. Katherine started her career in communications as the media relations manager at Hispanic PR Wire and became the managing editor of the Hispanic PR Monitor, before the company was sold to PR Newswire in 2008. Born in Lima, Peru but raised in the US since she was five, her passion for community building, storytelling and the Latino culture drives her innovative approach to social networking both on and offline.