What I do

I am responsible for the Reuters Institute’s editorial team, which publishes articles and podcasts, promotes the work of the Institute’s researchers, and manages the Institute’s digital channels, including our daily roundup, several newsletters and our social media accounts. 

As part of my job, I design and execute the Institute’s editorial strategy, put journalists in touch with our in-house experts, oversee the publication of our own research, and edit articles from our reporters and freelance contributors. 

I report and write some of these pieces myself, with a special focus on the business of news, media innovation, democratic backsliding and the many ways technology is shaping the public sphere. I’m based in Oxford, but my reporting has featured journalists and news organisations from all over the world, from Spain and Brazil, to Hong Kong and United States. 

In recent years, I’ve interviewed newsroom leaders such as AG Sulzberger, Alessandra Galloni and Carlos F. Chamorro, and prominent voices in journalism such as Jelani Cobb, Julia Angwin and Patrícia Campos Mello. I’ve also published articles on news avoidance, the journalists documenting war crimes, and the impact of Donald Trump’s presidency on press freedom in the US and journalism around the world.

My background

I am a senior journalist with experience in Europe and the United States. Before I came to the Reuters Institute, I worked as a foreign correspondent and I co-founded a couple of news startups in my native Spain. 

I started my career at the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, where I worked for 14 years as an opinion writer and a foreign correspondent from London, New York and Brussels. I covered the 2016 US presidential campaign for Univision and have published three books on American politics. In 2014, I won the Gabriel García Márquez Journalism Award for a long-form story on the enduring impact of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

I am the co-founder of two news startups (El Español and Politibot). I have worked on digital strategy for the March Foundation, and have written extensively about journalism and politics for El País, the Washington Post, Nieman Reports and other publications. Before taking on my current job, I spent six months as a Journalist Fellow at the Institute working on this project on the rise of reader revenue models in European newspapers.

Journalistic ethics

Journalists at the Reuters Institute are committed to upholding Reuters trust principles and Reuters standards and values. I strive to protect sensitive sources and I always identify myself to people I cover as a reporter. I deeply believe journalism can be a force for good. But I am also aware that some newsrooms produce output that’s inaccurate, polarising and damaging for marginalised communities. So I approach my work with empathy, fairness and an open mind, and often focus on issues shaping the future of journalism beyond Western Europe and the United States.