Mauricio Peña has joined Borderless Magazine, a nonprofit news outlet reporting on immigrants, as an editorial director. He wrote on X/Twitter:
“I could not be more thrilled to work with a small, mighty team committed to ethical immigration reporting.”
An award-winning journalist, Peña was recently at Chalkbeat, where he worked as an education reporter. Before that, he was a Southwest Side reporter at Block Club Chicago.
He worked as an associate digital editor at Chicago Magazine and as an immigration and equality reporter at Desert Sun Media Group. He was also a general assignment reporter at DNAinfo.
Peña has a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.
Be sure to congratulate Peña on X/Twitter.
