McCausland began in journalism in 1982, as a reporter of crime stories for his home town newspaper El Heraldo.

He later started to work in the genre of narrative journalism, becoming one of the best in multiple fields such as press, radio and TV in Colombia.

Since 1998, he led his own production studio, La Esquina del Cine, where he worked with some of the most talented young producers in the Colombian Caribbean Region.

Some of his best works in the genre of narrative journalism are included in his book Las Crónicas de McCausland (Espasa, 1996).

He published two novels, Febrero escarlata (Planeta, 2004) and El Alma del Acordeón (Intermedio, 2006).