Rolando Pujol

Rolando Pujol has been an award-winning journalist in the newsrooms of several newspapers and television stations in New York City for over three decades.

Fueled by a passion for storytelling and a love of the American roadside, Rolando often leaves the traffic-choked streets of Manhattan to explore the bucolic roads of the Heartland. This is all thanks to his long-term project, The Retrologist, where he shares captivating stories and photos from the American roadside.

Across platforms, including a Substack newsletter, he has over 100,000 followers who keep up with his nostalgic travelogues.

When he’s not on the road, Pujol is the executive producer of digital content, innovation, and strategy at WABC-TV Channel 7, the flagship station of the ABC television network.

His most recent Emmy award, for a profile of a New York sign-manufacturing shop, emerged from his love of roadside Americana.

He lives in New York.