Susana Seijas

Knight International Journalism Fellow, Mexico

Susana Seijas is a Knight International Journalism Fellow who helped Mexican journalists to use the country's new access to information law to improve the quality and increase the quantity of investigative reports produced for the country's largest TV network and its website.

Seijas is a freelance journalist based in Mexico City. She currently hosts a half-hour nightly news program for Mexico City’s Imagen Radio. Previously she was a producer for BBC News. Her past assignments include 60 Minutes II, The Discovery Channel, Fox News, Voice of America, TV Azteca (Mexico), Latin America Press (Peru) and Herald News (New Jersey) among others. She also has worked at the Freedom Forum in London.

Seijas is president of the Mexico advisory committee of the Rory Peck Trust, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to the welfare of freelance journalists. Susana is a graduate of Leeds University (Russian Studies) and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York.