Vanessa Freije’s academic research examines the history of media, technology, and information in Latin America, with a particular focus on Mexico. Her first book, Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico (Duke University Press, 2020), examines how media scandals forged new modes of political engagement during one-party rule. This book has been translated to Spanish and published in Mexico (Siglo XXI/Instituto Mora, 2023) as De escándalo en escándalo: Cómo las revelaciones periodísticas construyeron la opinión pública en México. She also has written award-winning articles on rumors, the formation of the public sphere, and inter-American information politics, which have been published in the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Journal of Social History, the Journal of Global History and elsewhere. She is currently working on a new book on the history of outer space satellites in Mexico.
Awards and Praise
The Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the history of journalism, by the American Historical Association
The Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the history of journalism, by the American Historical Association
The Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the history of journalism, by the American Historical Association
Latin American Studies Association, Best Book in the Social Sciences (Mexico), honorable mention
The Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the history of journalism, by the American Historical Association
The Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the history of journalism, by the American Historical Association
“[Citizens of Scandal] is an outstanding contribution to the literature on Mexican journalism and the communication processes involved in making scandals, and should be of considerable interest to scholars studying news in other one-party-dominant and ‘hybrid’ regimes, more generally.”
- Daniel C. Hallin, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
“This is a breakthrough book. With extensive documentation, Vanessa Freije narrates the uneven and incomplete dance among the public, journalists, and government that opened the Mexican media in the 1960s and transformed the nature of public debate and political culture."
- Mary Kay Vaughan, author of Portrait of a Young Painter: Pepe Zúñiga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation
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