Jairo Lugo-Ocando, PhD (University of Sussex, UK), has worked as a reporter, staff-writer and chief sub-editor for several newspapers in Venezuela. He has also been correspondent for newspapers, magazines and radio stations in Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico and the United States. He has been invited to lecture at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Venezuela), IQRA University (Pakistan) and the University of Columbia (USA) among other institutions. He is author of the Media in Latin America (Open University Press McGraw-Hill, 2008) and the forthcoming ‘Poor News. Global Journalism and the reporting of world poverty’ (Pluto Press, 2014).