Acknowledgements

First and foremost, I want to thank the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. Diving into the toughest questions of our practice for six months in a supportive environment, as everyone at the institute provided, has been the opportunity of a lifetime.  

Special gratitude to Caithlin Mercer for her guidance, care, and enthusiasm with my work, and to Mitali Mukherjee for her leadership.  

A recognition to Alejandro Valdez Sanabria ↗ co-founder of El Surtidor ↗, is due. The rapport we have built for the past 10 years while co-leading our news outlet is present in this project in ways that I cannot even begin to untangle. His brilliance has inspired me, and his insights have reassured me.  

Many thanks to Sebastián Auyanet, for introducing me to the concept of engagement journalism way before others talked about it in our industry and for sharing with me the work of Sue Robinson.  

Sannuta Raghu, for being the sounding board of my ideas at Oxford and the friend who made this fellowship journey so rich. And my other co-fellows, for showing me what it is like to lift each other up with constant words of support and kindness.