Lorne Matalon has reported from Mexico and Latin America for “The World”–co-produced by the BBC World Service, WGBH, Boston and Public Radio Int’l–since November 2007. Based in Mexico City for nearly three years, he now divides his time between Boston, Mexico and other and Latin American nations, most recently Guatemala and Panama.
Panama's Border Police on aerial surveillance along the Colombian border
He has covered the Mexican government’s battle against that nation’s drug cartels, including experience as an embedded reporter with the Mexican armed forces. Lorne has also covered immigration and economic stories from south of the border, reporting from Venezuela, Panama and Guatemala for “The World.”
In addition, he reported a three-part series from both sides of the Texas-Mexico border. Previously he worked at NPR Member Stations WUNC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina and WBUR, Boston. During that time, he filed for NPR from Haiti, North Carolina, and Mongolia.
Sanjim, a nomadic reindeer herder tends to his flock in Mongolia's far north near Siberia
Lorne is a former contributor to National Geographic’s Ethnosphere Project, a current contributor to National Geographic News and is a Fellow at the Explorers Club of New York. His articles and photographs have been featured in the Boston Globe & the San Diego Union Tribune. 
He is the producer of three broadcast documentaries, “Guantanamo,” an examination of United States-Cuba relations, “Sudan: Freedom for Sale,” an Emmy nominated chronicle of a well-intended but flawed effort to rescue slaves and “Amazon War,” an investigation into corruption and the failure to meaningfully reduce destruction in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.
He holds a Bachelors degree in American History from Middlebury College and a Masters degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York.