Marcela Pizarro Coloma

Marcela's main areas of research and practice focus on journalism and theory in the Global South. She is completing a series entitled: Race Historicised: Epistemologies of Colour - a series of animations showcasing key thinkers in the Black radical tradition. She has recently worked on a documentary Mapuche and the Myth of Chile broadcast on Al Jazeera English. She is principal investigator at Northwestern University Qatar for the Journalistic Role Performance project - a cross-national, theory-driven endeavor to systematically analyze the state of journalistic cultures in the new media landscape across the world.

She directed the award-winning “Media Theorised: Reading Against the Grain”: an interactive online animation project showcasing the work of key thinkers on the media. Stuart Hall, Edward Said, Roland Barthes, Marshall McLuhan and Noam Chomsky. She has also produced films chronicling journalism’s literary and aesthetic histories globally: an archived based documentary on cinema newsreels shown during the height of Cuban Revolution, the New Journalism of Tom Wolfe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s literary journalism, political satire, news typography, reality TV for a global audience.