Francisco Barradas has worked as a journalist for two decades. He has lived in San Francisco since 2006, and contributes regularly to El Tecolote and
El Mensajero newspapers.
His articles and videos has been syndicated across Impremedia newspapers such as La Opinión (Los Angeles), El Diario (New York), La Raza (Chicago), La Prensa (Orlando). His photographs have landed on the covers of El Tecolote and El Mensajero, and been published in La Opinión, El Diario, SF Weekly, and San Francisco Bay View.
Barradas’ work focuses on immigration, poverty, education, labor rights, crime, health and science. He is also passionate about movies and baseball; he has covered the San Francisco International Film Festival for the last four years, and chronicled the 2010 World Series through tweets, photos and articles for Impremedia.
On the side, Barradas is a voracious reader of literature and history, and pens calaveras (or “skulls”), satiric verses adopted as a journalistic genre in Mexico since the 19th century.
