MexicoReporter.com is a news and analysis site aimed at English-speakers living in and outside Mexico.
The project was founded in July 2007 by Deborah Bonello, a writer and video journalist. It launched as an experiment in digital journalism and has been going ever since. MexicoReporter.com has been featured as one of the top ten most innovative journalism sites on the internet by Press Gazette, and appears on the Frontline Club network of blogs, a London-based club for foreign correspondents and journalists.
Editor-in chief, founder – Deborah Bonello
Deborah is a video journalist and writer based in Mexico City. She works on a freelance basis for broadcasters and newspapers, shooting, producing and editing video news and features. She has produced video reports for the Los Angeles Times, the Economist, Time Magazine, AFP, the Guardian, AlJazeera, and the Financial Times and contributed reporting and opinion to BBC and Canadian radio stations.
Deborah has worked as a staff video journalist for the Financial Times and the Los Angeles Times.
You can see her talking about setting up MexicoReporter.com is the interviews below, and read an interview with her here on the Innovative Individuals blog and Adam Westbrook’s Next Generation Journalist site, as well as here on Wannabe Hacks.
You can reach Deborah on dbonello@gmail.com.
Ulises Escamilla Haro is a researcher, fixer and translator for MexicoReporter.com. He is available for hire by newspapers and TV companies and can be reached on ules99@gmail.com. He was born and lives in Mexico City.
Mike Butcher was one of the original creators of MexicoReporter.com. Butcher is editor-in-chief of TechCrunch Europe.