About Us

MexicoReporter.com reports on culture, travel and society in Mexico, using multi-media. The site launched in July 2007, and since then has been featured as one of the top ten most innovative journalism sites on the internet by Press Gazette. MexicoReporter.com also appears on the Frontline Club network of blogs, a London-based club for foreign correspondents and journalists.

Editor-in chief – Deborah Bonello

Deborah created MexicoReporter.com jointly with Mike Butcher (see below) in 2007. She is a multi-media journalist based in Mexico City. Six months after arriving in Mexico in July 2007, she got a job working as a contract blogger, news assistant and video journalist for the Los Angeles Times Mexico City bureau, where she editing the La Plaza blog and wrote and produced video packages for LATimes.com (please see Published Video page).

She is currently working as a video producer in Mexico for the Financial Times, and is due to return to London in early 2010.

Prior to arriving in Mexico, she worked as a freelance journalist from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and before that as a media trade journalist in the UK for ten years, writing for all of the UK’s media trade magazines as well as the Guardian and the FT.

See an interview she recently did with Nokia Siemens about digital journalism below.

You can reach Deborah on dbonello@gmail.com.

Producer – Ulises Escamilla Haro

Ulises is a native Mexican who has lived in Mexico City all his life. He works as a fixer and translator for MexicoReporter.com.

Founder, board director — Mike Butcher was one of the creators of MexicoReporter.com, and is now a board director.

Butcher is head of one of TechCrunch Europe.

The views and posts on this site do NOT, in any way, represent the opinion or view of the Los Angeles Times of the Financial Times. They are the sole responsibility of Deborah Bonello.