February 5th, 2010 | By Mary Stucky
Forty six journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2000 and eight more have disappeared, according to Reporters Without Borders. Many of those killed have reported on drug cartels or other illegal activity.
Some of the bravest Mexican journalists are women working for CIMAC, directed by Lucia Lagunes (photo left in our interview in Mexico City). CIMAC was founded in the 1980s with a propositon that was then radical in Mexico– to prove that women’s issues constitute news.
February 1st, 2010 | By Round Earth Media
Rodwan Nakshabandi | © JoAnn Verburg
These five restaurateurs survived war, genocide, and long journeys to bring their native cuisine to the Twin Cities.
January 28th, 2010 | By Mary Stucky
More from Paulina Yanez Navarro, NextGen journalist reporting in Mexico, (Paulina, left, checking her notes).
Paulina, who is from Chile, has been assisting us in our reporting from Mexico City and is one of the NextGen journalists mentored by Round Earth. Paulina blogs about one important thing she’s learning on this reporting trip, an essential tension in all reporting. –Mary Stucky
Paulina: Where are we going now? That is the worst question that you can ever have when you are working on a story.
January 25th, 2010 | By Mary Stucky
From Mexico, Nancy Huynh blogs on what she’s learned about working as a global journalist from assisting me on our Mexico reporting trip. Don’t let anyone tell you this work is glamouous, says Nancy! –Mary Stucky
January 24th, 2010 | By Mary Stucky
Round Earth is in Mexico reporting for our U.S. outlets with the assistance of two NextGen journalists. I asked these young journalists to blog about what they’re learning during this reporting trip. Here’s Paulina Yanez Navarro (left with me interviewing in Mexico City).
Paulina hails from Santiago, Chile and is studying international journalism at Hamline University in the U.S., one of the young journalists mentored by Round Earth. What Paulina has to say here may seem simple, but it captures the essence of what we do as journalists. — Mary Stucky
January 16th, 2010 | By Mary Stucky
Two Next Generation journalists Paulina Yanez Navarro and Nancy Huynh , will be in Mexico with Mary Stucky this month reporting for The World, the World Vision Report and other outlets, part of Round Earth’s project to mentor and help train the next generation of global journalists.
Paulina is from Santiago, Chile and Nancy (left) is from St Paul, Minnesota. Both are students in Hamline University’s groundbreaking international journalism program.
November 4th, 2009 | By Round Earth Media
The Chinese Teahouse restaurant in Plymouth, MN. | Photo by Mary Stucky
Mary Stucky is proud to have been a contributing producer to this Peabody award-winning documentary series about the history of Asian-American immigration to the United States.
January 10th, 2009 | By Mary Stucky
School girls eating Dona Maria’s hot chocolate. | Photo by Ginny Grossman
Mexico is the birthplace of chocolate. The story goes that the Mayan god Quetzalcoatl presented his people with a gift from the garden of paradise: the cacao tree from which chocolate is made. Nowhere in Mexico is chocolate held in higher esteem than in Oaxaca – it is said that every man woman and child in this city in southern Mexico consumes chocolate at least once a day.
Mary Stucky went to Pilar Cabrera, a native of Oaxaca and a well-known chef, to learn the secrets of making a special kind of Mexican hot chocolate known as chocolate atole. They start on a busy street in the center of town – where for blocks around the air is rich with the smell of chocolate.
May 6th, 2008 | By Mary Stucky
Arnulfo Mendoza weaving a rug. | Photo ©Linda Brooks
Twenty years ago, a young Canadian backpacker named Mary Jane Gagnier stumbled upon a tiny village in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca, fell in love with a local weaver — and never left.
To this day Mary Jane and Arnulfo Mendoza live in Teotitlan del Valle. That’s pretty typical in this village nestled in the dry foothills of the Sierra Juarez, where people stay put — unlike many in Mexico, who are forced by poverty to emigrate.
June 1st, 2007 | By Round Earth Media
A Hmong home in Walnut Grove. | Photo by Mary Stucky
Walnut Grove, Minnesota was the real life setting for the TV series “Little House on the Prairie.” But its population and business community was eroding until Hmong refugees from Laos showed up. They received such a friendly reception in Walnut Grove others followed. Now Hmong refugees make up a third of the town’s population. And Walnut Grove is prospering and growing. (more…)
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