ABOUT 

Jorge is a Mexican born Emmy Award-winning freelance Video Journalist, Fixer/Field Producer and Camera Operator. Jorge  lives in Australia and works as a Creative Content Developer for Trending Media Australia. 

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Through Jorge's and his team (JN Productions) special knowledge of the language, culture and physical area of Latin America his team is sought after by foreign network as a Field Producer/ Fixer. Jorge and his team have worked with international media outlets from the USA, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Israel, South Africa, Italy, Japan, South Korea, China, Egypt, Russia, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

 

A recent highlight, is at the end of 2021, Jorge organised from Australia his team in Mexico to work with Hope Productions ( a French production company of documentary and institutional films, created by Yann Arthus Bertrand and Jean Yves Robin) for an important project. 

 

Jorge also manages his team of JN Productions in Mexico who provide news stories for US & Mexican news outlets & agencies such as Reuters, Imagen Television, Telemundo, Border Report.com, Estrella TV, LA Times en Espanol, Sintesis TV and other networks. The team also creates short films on topics such as migration and social justice.

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Jorge's expertise are often sought after to provide his opinion and insight in relation to topics involving journalism, border journalism, migration/asylum seekers and human rights for national and international news outlets. Jorge has been on the panel for ABC Australia's radio program, Al Jazeera- Qatar (English) and Al Jazeera- The Stream- DC, USA, Telemundo, San Diego, USA and the BBC. 

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JORGE'S BACKGROUND

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Jorge gained insight into journalism from a young age as a result of working as a teenager for his Father who was a Journalist and Director of a television network. Eventually, Jorge pathed his own way in his journalism career after completing a Bachelor of Communications and Social Science and began working for Sintesis TV of whom he worked for between 2003 to 2015. He started his career with Sintesis doing audio work, a year later working the cameras and writing notes.

 

Jorge then went onto being a Reporter and TV Anchor. Jorge’s then went into freelance journalism for LA networks and became known for his journalism covering the issues of drug trafficking, narco’s, migration and human rights. Later also expanded into field production and commercial productions prior to growing his team for JN Productions.