Carlos is a journalist from Mexico City and the 2024-2025 Mellon Public Humanities Fellow, working as WORT 89.9 FM’s Spanish Language Programming Fellow. He is a doctoral candidate at UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where he studies the relationship between Mexico and the United States in mainstream media, focusing on FM radio.
In 2017, Carlos earned a master’s degree from UT Austin’s Ethnomusicology Department, complementing his 2009 Graduate School of Journalism master’s from UC Berkeley. Carlos started reporting for Mexico City news outlets while getting his BA in Communication from Mexico City’s Universidad Iberoamericana, where he later became adjunct faculty.
Before moving to the United States for the second time, Carlos navigated various roles in the Mexican media, journalism, and music sectors. He worked as an international news editor for the MVS morning news show hosted by journalist Carmen Aristegui. He’s also held a music supervision position with film and TV producer Lynn Fainchtein (RIP), was editorial coordinator & management at Sony Music Mexico, and blogged for the Mexican newspaper El Universal. Carlos currently co-hosts and live streams a 2-hour weekly music show in one of Latin America’s leading audio & podcast platforms —Convoy Network.
Twitter: @davalos