Laura Garcia

Laura is a multimedia journalist at BBC Mundo, the Spanish language service of the BBC as part of their video team. Her career began in Laura’s home town of Mexico as a newspaper photographer covering the “lucha libre”. Laura worked for newspapers and film production companies in the US before moving to the UK in September 2011. She has worked in different national newsrooms across the UK as a TV and radio producer. Recently she worked with First Draft teaching journos to spot and verify disinformation. She taught a course on social media for the UN-mandated University for Peace and regularly featured as a foreign correspondent on Mexican TV explaining European politics.