Sandra Vera Zambrano

Associate Professor, Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico)

Sandra Vera Zambrano is an associate professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana and a Level 1 member of the National System of Researchers. She coordinates the Revista Iberoamericana de Comunicación and leads a research project about journalists’ labor conditions in Mexico. Before focusing on precarity of journalists, she analyzed how French and American journalists adapt to economic constraints and the use of technology along with Matthew Powers. Prior to her comparative work between France and the U.S., her PhD dissertation focused on French celebrity journalists and how they are increasingly interested by politicians’ private lives.

She publishes in prestigious journals and publishers such as Journal of Communication, New Media and Society, the International Journal of Press/Politics. Specialized in the sociology of journalism and comparative studies, she recently co-authored “The Journalist’s Predicament” with Matthew Powers (Columbia University Press, 2023).

She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana and then moved to France, where she received a Master’s degree and a PhD from Université Toulouse 1/ Sciences Po Toulouse.