Dr Marcela Pizarro Coloma

Marcela Pizarro Coloma has worked as a journalist in international news and filmmaking for over 20 years. She worked at the Associated Press HQ in London from 2000, covering big global news stories (including 9/11 attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq) and as a video journalists covering news, sports and culture across Latin America. She then went on to work at Al Jazeera English, both on flagship current affairs shows out of London and Washington DC, and then The Listening Post, the channel’s media critique show as a producer and correspondent. Her long form reports, documentaries and animations series cover the politics and histories of news journalism, and much of her work has been dedicated to histories of journalism in the Global South.

She completed her AHRC funded PhD in 2004 at the University of London. Her thesis focused on the work of one of Latin America’s most important cultural theorists, Nelly Richard.