About Us

The MexicoReporter.com project was founded and owned by Deborah Bonello, a multimedia journalist, with the help of Mike Butcher, editor of TechCrunch Europe in July 2007. We’re currently not publishing on a daily basis. Here’s the background:

The site launched in July 2007 as an experiment in digital journalism, and was first called www.NewCorrespondent.com. After deciding to stay put in Mexico, the site was renamed to MexicoReporter.com, 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 worked as a multi-media journalist based in Mexico City for three years, using MexicoReporter.com as part standalone newspaper, part portfolio site. 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 edited the La Plaza blog and wrote and produced video packages for LATimes.com (please see Published Video page).

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 worked as a fixer and translator for MexicoReporter.com. He now lives with Deborah in London.

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.