Myriam Giselle Vidal Valero began her journalistic career in 2016 as a contributor to Aquí entre nos from the General Directorate of Science Dissemination at the Universidad Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM) and editor of the website, La Jornada en la Ciencia. In 2017, she became a freelance reporter for ¿Cómo ves? scientific magazine. In 2018, she collaborated on Ciencia UNAM, on the radio program La Ciencia que Somos. She began specializing in health journalism in 2018 as a contributor to Medscape en Español. She also won a prize from the Mexican College for Cancer Research that financed long-range journalistic research on cancer, which resulted in her first publication with the New York Times en Español.

Explore some of Myriam’s reporting during the fellowship year:

• Covering trauma in times of COVID-19: reporting on victims and mental health (RED MPC | May 12, 2020)
• Addressing trauma in times of COVID-19: talking responsibly about suicide can help prevent it (RED MPC | May 12, 2020)
• Covering trauma in times of COVID-19: the physical and mental health of journalists also matters (RED MPC | May 12, 2020)
• Kids seeking asylum find some measure of it in one makeshift school (Spanish version here) (New York Times | August 18, 2020)
• Staying safe while covering the Coronavirus: lessons from the Latin American experience (The Open Notebook | November 24, 2020)
• At U.S.-Mexico border, journalists learn mental self-care (The Carter Center | January 4, 2021)