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Ilana Sod in NYC (Chino Lemus) |
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| Born | February 3, 1973 Mexico Mexico City |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Ilana Sod (born February 3, 1973), is currently MTV Latin America's Newscaster and Editor-in-Chief for Public affairs programming. She is also a weekly columnist for the Mexican newspaper Excélsior[1] and contributor for Radio Trece[2] in the metropolitan area of DF. She was born in Mexico City, Mexico.
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These days she is in the ongoing production (Argentina,[3][4] Chile[5][6] and Guatemala [7][8][9]) of the special series that the Government of Finland, through the Inter-American Development Bank,[10] has sponsored in MTV for the pro-social project "Agents of Change" to which ] that counts more than six thousand young people with registered development plans.[11]
"Almost Ten" (Casi Diez) is the name of her column published every Saturday and Sunday by Excélsior. "Wide Spectrum" (Amplio Espectro) is the title of her segment every Thursday during the daily news radio show of Javier Solórzano in Radio 13 in Mexico City.
She has also worked as network TV news anchor for Channel 40 and Channel 22, as well as a reporter in Sydney for channel 108 of SKY, reviewing local issues such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Australian capital.
In August 2003, she co-produced for MTV the PSA campaign 'Grita' (Speak Out!),[12] empowering children to be more communicative about their sexuality. This series of spots won the Promax-BDA Golden Award as best pro-social campaign of a TV station in Latin America.
More than a year later, as a follow-up of the campaign mentioned above, she was in charge of reporting for CNN and MTV the views, thoughts and feelings of Latin American young kids regarding machismo and woman's vulnerability of being infected by HIV/AIDS. The 30-minute special[13] was premiered by CNN International on November 27, 2004 and days later by all the MTV channel around the globe during the World AIDS Day, December 1. Her segmente focused on the statistics and facts of Argentina, Colombia and Mexico.
Back in May and June 2006, she was the only reporter allowing the young audience to ask questions directly to all five Mexican presidential candidates, exactly one month before of the general election in Mexico, July 2. The series, the first of this kind in the history of Mexican television, were titled "Somos 30 Millones" (We Are 30 Million) in reference of the number of Mexicans under the age of 34.
Later that same year, in August 2006, she was the MTV International's correspondent and UNICEF's moderator during the XVI International AIDS Conference, 2006 in Toronto, Canada. As part of MTV's AIDS-awareness initiative, Staying Alive, Sod's contributions appeared at the "48 Fest" special vlog[22] and session[23] From Rhetoric to Action: Defining a Stronger Role for Youth in National HIV/AIDS Policies.
For the last eleven years she has been working for television, radio and the press in Mexico, her native country. In 1999 and 2001, she coordinated 'Radio Sex Project', 48-hours of investigative reports about sex for 'Radioactivo 98.5' (a radio station for young people in Mexico City where she worked for almost 8 years).
In 2003, she covered the Iraq War as a correspondent based in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv for 90.5FM 'Imagen Informativa' (a 24/7 coast to coast news radio station in Mexico).
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