Mayte Carrasco

Mayte Carrasco is a freelance war correspondent (Afghanistan, Russia, Georgia, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya) working in five languages for Spanish and international media. A researcher for RESET (Research for Security and Transnational Governance) she is an expert in Defense and Security Studies (University of Reading) and a teacher of "Journalism and Conflicts. How Media can contribute to peace" for the UNESCO chair of Philosophy for Peace. She writes analysis for Spanish media and the IEEE (Spanish Institute of Strategic Studies, Ministry of Defence).

Real Journalism Now: the media after Spain's revolution

‘Why are the traditional media losing their credibility? Why do our citizens no longer trust us? In the Puerta del Sol - the seat of the Spanish Revolution - why were they shouting ‘Television: manipulation’?’

By Cecilia Ballesteros and Mayte Carrasco

/ 13 Jun 2011