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Laura Garcia is a broadcast journalist with a wide range of television and online experience.
Her work as a multimedia journalist started back in her home town of Mexico as a photographer for a newspaper. She also worked for newspapers and film production companies in the US before coming to the UK in September 2011.
She completed the MA in Multimedia Journalism (plus NCTJ diploma) at the University of Kent in the summer of 2012.
Since then, Laura has been working in different newsrooms across the UK: ITV Meridian, BBC South East, BBC Radio Kent, NBC News, R4's The World Tonight and ITN's Channel 5 News. As a result of growing interest in UK politics since the vote to leave the European Union, Laura also works as a foreign correspondent for Imagen Mexico, Bloomberg Mexico and Estrella TV in Los Angeles. During 2017 Laura will also be a Research Associate at Cumberland Lodge, an educational charity focused on generating constructive dialogue.
Currently she works as a Lecturer in Televisio and Multimedia Journalism, freelances for ITN, works as a correspondent for hispanic media in Mexico and the US, and is Special Programme's producer at KMTV. Her role requires her to oversee and coordinate the Centre for Journalism's intern programme as well as their politics and business shows.