Bredowcast

Veronica Sánchez is a young Mexican journalist and media researcher currently researching watchdog journalism in her country. On the BredowCast she talks to Johanna Sebauer about the slow development of critical reporting in her country, the challenges of the Mexican media industry and why she, while working as a journalist, would never touch the buffet table at press conferences. Watchdog Journalism is a young concept in Mexico. As a general trend, it only started in the late 1970. Before that, the political elite and the press in Mexico were closely tied together in, what scholars now call, a “relationship of convenience”. The press offered loyalty to the powerful and the powerful, in turn, provided the press with economic benefits. Since Mexico experienced economic growth until the 1990s as well as social and political stability, nobody seemed to miss critical voices. “During this time many journalists saw themselves as a part of the political system not as someone to hold the powerful accountable”, accor