Mayte Carrasco
Mayte Carrasco (Terrasa, Catalonia, Spain, 1974) is a freelance journalist specialized in international topics. She has worked for the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, the news agency EFE and the Spanish TV channel Telecinco. She has reported on wars in Caucasus, Central Asia and Afghanistan, among others.
Education
Mayte Carrasco is licensed in Communication Sciences by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1992–1997). Between 1995 and 1996 she travelled to Grenoble (France) to complement her education at Stendhal University.
After getting her degree, in 1997, she travelled to the United Kingdom to study for a masters degree on International Security Studies (specialization in [...] and conflict resolution). In 2003 she got a masters specialization in Philosophy for Peace in Jaume I University (Castellón, Spain) in an UNESCO cathedra.
In 2009 Mayte Carrasco complete a course in survival in conflict zones with a grant from Reuters. She speaks Spanish, French, English, Catalan, and some Russian.
Career
She started her professional career as correspondent in Granada (Spain) for EFE in 1994. Between 2000 and 2002 she was a correspondent for the Spanish newspaper El Mundo in Almería.
From 1994–2004 she worked as reporter for Telecinco´s newsreel in Barcelona and Almería, where she covered topics related to immigration from the north of Morocco.
From 2004 to 2007, she moved to France, where she worked as bilingual journalist in the headquarters of Euronews in Lyon in 2004. In the following two years, she worked in Paris as the correspondent in Informativos Telecinco and Punto Radio where she reported on the presidential elections legislative of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Cannes Film Festival, U.S. President Barack Obama’s head of state visit on the 60th anniversary of Normandy landings, and directed the reports on ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna).
She worked as a war correspondent from 2008 when she worked for Informativos Telecinco in Moscow, Russia. She reported on the conflicts in Afghanistan, with the Spanish troops in Herat and carried interviews with Taliban leaders. In August 2008, she covered the Georgia War.
Carrasco also contributed as a media scholar. She was a research collaborator for IECAH (Institute for Conflict Studies and Action Humanitarian); a specialist in international security studies, [...] and conflict resolution in University of Reading; a collaborator in Publicaciones en Papeles del Este (Complutense University in Madrid) and Journal of IECAH; a speaker in conferences (civil-military coordination in violent scenarios, women in area of conflict, war correspondents); and participated in media’s role in peacebuilding for the Spanish Ministry of Defense.
From 2009-2012, she worked as a Professor on Journalism and a freelance journalist covering conflicts in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.
External links
Article of Mayte Carrasco:Real Journalism Now: the media after Spain's revolution.(13 June 2011)
Report of Mayte Carrasco in Herat, Afghanistan in August 2009