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54 Based in New York, Carolina Guerrero is a journalist and Chief Executive of Radio Ambulante, a pioneering long-form podcast that tells stories about and for Latinos from across the Americas. Neha Dixit is an independent, investigative journalist who reports from New Delhi, India, on politics, gender and social justice issues across South Asia. Karen Okonkwo, a Seattle-based media entrepreneur, co-founded TONL, a stock photo agency which aims to drive innovation and change by supplying the media with images that better reflect the United States of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity. “We wanted to change the narrative about ourselves in the media so we created this podcast,” explained Ms Guerrero. “We took advantage of the relatively new technology that was transitioning at the time and the large number of Latinos across the continent, to develop programmes from across the region. “What we try to do is challenge ourselves and the image that people have of Latin America, even Latin Americans, and stories that are not often reported,” said Ms Guerrero. “We have this common language but we really don’t know much about ourselves.” A first-generation Nigerian-American, Ms Okonkwo was inspired to start TONL after she realised that she was unconsciously consuming media that depicted the world as almost exclusively white. “It’s crazy to think that the media has looked this way for decades, centuries, and nobody has gone full-throttle to change that,” she said. Living in a society divided less by race than by caste and religion, Ms Dixit found herself increasingly out-of-step with lifestyle-focused corporate media organisations and so had to become an independent journalist in order to pursue the stories she felt impelled to tell. “If this is the model that the mainstream media is following, there is not much scope to look at the diversity of the society that you are reporting on, which is why the most socially and economically marginalised sections go underreported,” she said.