Susana Seijas (chair) is a freelance journalist based in Mexico City. She is presently working as producer and reporter for CBS News in Mexico. Previously, she was a Knight Fellow at Televisa, producer for BBC News and radio host on the half-hour nightly news programme at Mexico City´s Imagen Radio. Her freelance work includes assignments with 60 Minutes II, Fox News Radio, Voice of America, Latin America Press, Herald News (New Jersey) and Gatopardo Magazine among others. Before becoming a journalist, Susana worked at the Freedom Forum in London. Susana is a graduate of Leeds University (Russian Studies) and of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York.

Juan Angulo Osorio is the editorial director of the newspaper El Sur in the state of Guerrero. He has over thirty years experience working as a distinguished reporter in Mexican print media, including Unomásuno, and is founder of La Jornada newspaper.

Pedro Enrique Armendares is Executive Director of the Centro de Periodistas de Investigación, A.C. (CPI), an independent organisation affiliated with Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). He frequently takes part as an instructor and panellist in journalism workshops and seminars both in Mexico and at universities in the US. He has worked as a full-time researcher and professor in the International Studies Division of the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE, México City), and as Academic Coordinator at the Mexico City Study Center of the University of California. Before joining CPI he worked as an investigative reporter for national and international print and broadcast media, including La Jornada and BBC Mundo. Pedro Enrique holds a BA in History from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico City) and an MA in International Journalism from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

José Cohen is a freelance producer based in Mexico City and the main freelance correspondent for ABC in Mexico. He started working in newsgathering as a freelance sound recordist and cameraman for NBC News in Russia in the early 1990s and has covered wars and civil unrest around the world, especially in Latin America. He has over thirteen years experience in television and has worked for international broadcasting organisations, such as ABC News, NBC News, RAI Italy, APTN, Reuters TV, and Swiss TV. In 1996, he established his own video media production company Cactus Film which now specialises in aerial and underwater photography. He holds a bachelors degree in visual arts from the Cambridge School of Weston in the U.S.

María Idalia Gómez is a freelance journalist based in Mexico City. She is presently working in the Quick Response Unit for the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) in Mexico City. She is a freelance journalist for several magazines and newspapers in Mexico and Central America, and previously worked on W-Radio’s programme Hoy por Hoy with Carmen Aristegui. She is the co-author of the book “With Death in Their Pockets: Six Outrageous Stories of Drug Trafficking” which was awarded the prize ‘Planeta’ for journalism in 2005. She has over 15 years experience in newspapers and electronic media and has also been awarded the Mexican National Prize of Journalism in 2006 in the investigative reporting category. She has participated in different journalism workshops and seminars related on journalism safety, national security and human rights, in Mexico, United States, Chile and Argentina.

Darío López-Mills is the Photo Editor and Chief Photographer for Mexico and Central America at the Associated Press (AP) . He started working for AP in 1995 as a photographer based out of Mexico and later became senior photographer and photo editor for Brazil. He has also freelanced for several Mexican and international publications including Reforma, La Jornada and Proceso. In 1996 he won the Second Ibero-American Photojournalism Biennale of Mexico and was awarded 2nd place in the General News category of Pictures of the Year International (POYI). More recently, he has been working on multimedia creation using content from the AP photo production in Latin America. He is also actively involved in training staff photographers the use of new technologies and tools for content delivery.

Guillermo Osorno is the founder of the Mapas Editorial group, which edits several publications in Mexico City. This includes the monthly magazine Gatopardo, where he is editor. Previously, he collaborated with Reforma newspaper and Nexos magazine. Guillermo holds postgraduate degrees from Cambridge and Columbia universities.

Porfirio Patiño Juárez is a TV journalist and producer with over 30 years experience. He has worked for several national and international channels including ABC, Telemundo and CNN. Porfirio is currently Univisión’s bureau chief in Mexico City, where he has been working for the past 18 years. He has been nominated for several Emmys, and in 1995 received a special commendation.