Q: Why do you believe The Global Report on Women in the News Media is needed?
CMR: Research about journalists has been very limited around the world… Most of the funds and research [go toward] the effect of the media as well as the message, but not [to] the [journalists] who make it possible.
Q: What impact do you think the project will have?
CMR: A great impact. These kinds of gender studies are necessary to understand the real changes of the profession.
Q: What prepared you to oversee the research for your area of the world?
CMR: I have been working in this line of research since 2004, when I started to worry about journalism as a profession. I have been conducting different research and studies in Chile and Latin America. Last year I finished my postdoctoral study at Indiana University in Bloomington doing a secondary analysis about 50 years of journalism studies in Latin America. Nowadays, I am leading a Chilean study, comparing the reconfiguration of the profession inside the country.