Leonarda Reyes is founder and director of the Center for Journalism and Public Ethics in Mexico. She worked 11 years for Reforma-El Norte newspapers covering the federal Congress, political parties and the presidency as well as national security. Investigations she conducted revealed widespread electoral fraud and corruption involving public contracts. Reyes also covered the U.S. invasion of Panama, and Mexico's relations with Cuba. She later became Reforma 's national assignment editor. She went on to work for three years as managing editor for TV Azteca News and later was appointed director of production for its nationwide affiliates. Reyes was a 1990 Knight Fellow at Stanford University.