About

Hi, I'm Magali. 

I'm a journalist who recently made Idyllwild my mountain escape after fifteen years of covering stories across Europe and the United States.

My career has been defined by listening. As a reporter and editor for major international publications, I built my reputation on finding the human story beneath the headline, whether covering presidential elections, social movements, or the daily lives of communities in transition. I've interviewed politicians and street vendors, tech founders and activists, always with the same conviction: that everyone's story matters, and that good journalism means getting out of the way and letting people speak for themselves.

From Paris to Los Angeles, I specialized in the kinds of stories that required trust: politics, justice, social issues, the fault lines where different worlds meet. I learned early that the best interviews happen when you stop performing expertise and start getting genuinely curious. Over 2,000 published articles taught me to write quickly, but more importantly, to listen slowly.

Now, I'm bringing those decades of experience to a more intimate scale. This project isn't journalism in the traditional sense, there's no breaking news here, no agenda beyond documentation. It's an attempt to do what I've always done best: create space for people to be heard, to be seen as they are, not as anyone thinks they should be.

I also capture stories through images, and I believe a good portrait, like a good story, is a collaboration. I want to create pictures that simply witness: no angle, no spin, just the quiet exchange that happens when someone trusts you enough to be still and real in front of a camera.