At Large Spanish
Two-time Emmy Nominee, multimedia journalist Mariela Murdocco started her career in journalism in New York nearly twelve years ago as reporter and photographer for many local (The Daily News Español), national and international publications. Her six-year TV career includes the educational national network HITN-TV, and most recently, NBC’s Telemundo 47 where she worked as writer and producer for Noticiero 47 (Emmy Nomination 2009) and as writer, content and line producer for Acceso Total (Emmy Nomination 2011). In radio, she co-hosted the 2004 Olympic Games for a local Spanish-language station, as well as New York correspondent for Radio Nacional (Uruguay).
After writing in Spanish for more than a decade, Mariela has recently started working in English language media for Fox News Latino and is a blogger for the Huffington Post Latino Voices.
Among her other honors, in 2007 Mariela won a New York Times Fellowship to the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
She has covered a wide variety of subjects including; the arts, music, entertainment, health, finance, education, politics, the environment and community issues. Mariela has a special love for entertainment and music and has reported and/or photographed hundreds of concerts and performing arts shows.
Parallel to her work as a journalist, she is also an independent TV and documentary producer and does professional photography. Mariela is proud to be an active member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Mother of two and married to an American, Mariela was born in Uruguay having emigrated to New York City in 1997. Part of a bilingual home, she still keeps close ties to her Latina roots which is a continual source of inspiration and motivation behind her interest in social and cultural issues.
