Hay Festival Querétaro 2023 – Journalism

This workshop, given by the members of the BBC Mundo team, Carlos Serrano and Daniel García Marco, is aimed at Communication and Journalism students and will take a detailed look at the working methods of one of the world’s most respected media organisations, famous for the diversity of its programming and its news rigour and quality.

Yael Weiss (Mexico) is a writer, publisher and television presenter. She is the author of four books, the most recent being Los muros de aire y otras crónicas de frontera, which is a compilation of five reports by the writer about time she spent in the border cities of Ciudad Hidalgo, Ciudad Juárez, Tenosique, Tijuana and Reynosa. Based on the testimony of women, children and men from Central America and elsewhere in the world, Weiss tells the story of the travels on Mexican soil of people who flee hunger, danger, precarious labour conditions and drug trafficking in a bid to reach the United States, where a series of new challenges awaits them, some of them more dangerous than they might imagine. She will talk to Alma Candy Rangel Alvarado.

This workshop, given by members of the BBC Mundo team, Carlos Serrano and Daniel García Marco, is aimed at Communication and Journalism students and will take a detailed look at the working methods of one of the world’s most respected media organisations, famous for the diversity of its programming and its news rigour and quality.

Leontxo García (Spain) has been speaking and writing for 40 years about chess and its fascinating links with different fields of knowledge. At this event with Jan Martínez Ahrens, the author will share some views on this activity, which in recent years has enjoyed great success among Internet users. He will talk about its positive effects on the mental and emotional development of children, and its benefits in terms of the prevention of Alzheimer’s, and even the role that chess players have had in the struggles for power among the different geopolitical blocs over the course of history.

The journalist Diana Manzo (Mexico), from Unión Hidalgo, Oaxaca, has a degree in Communication from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla and a Master’s in Education from the UNAM. She has worked with media outlets such as Página 3 and Aristegui Noticias. In 2015 she created the independent website Istmo Press, which covers the Tehuantepec Isthmus area. Her organisation covers matters related to gender, migration, the environment and health. In 2019 she was given an Honourable Mention in the National Journalism Prizes. Yael Weiss (Mexico) is a writer, publisher and television broadcaster. She has authored four books, the most recent of which is Los muros de aire y otras crónicas de frontera, which offers four articles about the author’s time in the border cities of Ciudad Hidalgo, Ciudad Juárez, Tenosique, Tijuana and Reynosa. They will talk to the journalist Pascal Beltrán del Río.