Iván Carrillo (CDMX, 1970). Journalist, editor and TV host specialized in science, health and the environment. He is co-founder and co-director of Historias sin Fronteras and En Común (podcast). He is a member of the 2016-17 generation of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship del MIT and is part of the National Geographic Society's global community of Explorers. As well, Ivan is the general editor of the Tec Review platform specialized in science, innovation and entrepreneurship and is the head of the Ibero-American Scientific and Cultural News (NCC) that is broadcast in 20 countries and three languages. Recently he launched the Aquatic Atlas program on YouTube dedicated to the conservation of the oceans. He has collaborated with the most important national media and his reports in Natgeo (LA) and Newsweek en Español have been recognized with the most outstanding awards in Mexico.
S. Lynne Walker is the president and executive director of InquireFirst and co-founder of Historias sin Fronteras, which was established in 2019 to provide reporting grants to science, health and environment writers in Latin America.
Lynne is a Pulitzer Prize finalist who spent much of her career reporting from Mexico, where she served as Mexico City Bureau Chief from 1992 to 2008 for San Diego, Calif.-based Copley News Service.
Her four-part series on a small Illinois town transformed by immigration, “Beardstown: Reflection of a Changing America,” was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting. She was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2005 for her outstanding coverage of Latin America.
As executive director of InquireFirst, which she founded in 2016, Lynne continues to travel to Latin America to work with colleagues on new ways to produce in-depth reporting on science, health and the environment and conduct investigative reporting. She has instructed Spanish-language journalism workshops in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina and Ecuador.
Lynne also launched Bajo la Lupa, a grant program to support investigative reporting in Latin America and she is the co-founder of En Común: Conocimiento en Voz Viva, a Spanish-language radio program that reports on science, health and the environment for rural and indigenous audiences in Mexico.
Member of the Editorial Board of CONNECTAS and its Hub. Graduate from University of Concepción, Chile, and Master in Written Journalism from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He was editor of chronicle in the newspaper El Mercurio de Antofagasta. His topics of interest are environment, science, and migration. He has also covered the impact of drug trafficking on the Chilean-Bolivian border and issues related to social exclusion.
Some of the articles in which he has participated were nationally and internationally recognized, including "El Nuevo Éxodo Latino" (2015), which won the IAPA awards in the Inter-American Relations category and the Pobre el que no cambia de mirada award, multimedia category; "Un rompecabezas arqueológico oculto en 300 telas", which won the Science Journalism Award from the Andrés Bello National University; "Las Mujeres Carne de Cañón del Narcotráfico" (2018), which won the Excellence Journalism Prize awarded by Alberto Hurtado University, reporting category, and the Pobre el que no cambia el de mirada award, regional category; and "Empresas Exprés", which was a finalist for the Excellence Journalism Prize awarded by Alberto Hurtado University, reporting category.
In 2022 he specialized in OSINT and satellite tools for climate change research.
He has a degree in Journalism from the National University of Saint Augustine in Arequipa. He is currently a journalist for Convoca, Peru. Since 2015 he did his pre-professional internship at Noticias newspaper and then was its editor until 2016. He worked in the Arequipa newspapers El Pueblo, Sin Fronteras and other small initiatives such as weekly newspapers and magazines. He was director of the weekly newspaper En la mira and head of the Investigative Unit of Viral newspaper in Arequipa. Since July 2017 he worked at the southern edition of the newspaper La República. And from 2021 he is part of the CONNECTAS Hub.
He specialized in investigative, data and socio-environmental journalism, developing reports on corruption in the region of Arequipa, and socio-environmental mining problems nationwide.
In 2021 he won the Journalistic Production Grant from CONNECTAS and the International Republican Institute. The report Ríos Muertos: Cicatrices de la minería en el sur del Perú, which was published in partnership with CONNECTAS, Viral newspaper, the weekly newspaper En la mira, and Convoca.pe, won the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) award in the environmental category.
Editor / Peru:
Gonzalo Torrico
Photo:
Magaly Visedo-Soriano
Cristian Ascencio Ojeda
Rodrigo Talavera Velarde
Ivan Salcedo Llerena
Web Design:
Miguel Ángel Garnica
Infographics:
Fermín García-Fabila
Translation:
Jessica Valenzuela / Translation to English
Jerusa Rodrigues / Translation to Portuguese
