Dr Marcela Pizarro Coloma is a journalist and lecturer in the department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

She has worked as a journalist in international news and filmmaking for more than 20 years. She began at the Associated Press and then went on to work at Al Jazeera English, most notably at The Listening Post, the channel’s media critique show. She has focused on the political economy, geopolitics and culture of the news media around the world. Her long form reports, documentaries and animations look at issues of race, gender and class and much of her work has been dedicated to histories of journalism in the Global South

In addition, she has produced shows on the Middle East since the 2011 Arab uprisings, Latin America’s media revolutions past and present, the rise of far right populist discourse across the world and the legacies of colonialism in legacy media.

Marcela 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.