Mark Nieto
Producer, Your CallMark Nieto is a producer on KALW's daily call-in program, Your Call.
Mark’s work in public radio and podcasting includes stints at KQED, the Los Angeles Times, and The New Humanitarian. At KQED, he was a producer for Forum and won a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for a story he reported for The California Report Magazine. At the Los Angeles Times, he worked on the daily news podcast The Times and contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-finalist investigation.
In addition to his newsroom work, Mark reported a story for Monument Lab’s podcast series Plot of Land on the legacy of oil extraction in the Los Angeles basin and his family’s experience after a devastating 1980 petroleum pipeline explosion.
In 2021, Mark earned an M.A. in Research Architecture from Goldsmiths, University of London, where he collaborated with the investigative agency Forensic Architecture. He was part of a team that geolocated and verified police attacks on journalists during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, with the findings published on an interactive platform built with Bellingcat. Films he worked on with the agency have premiered at the Berlinale and the Venice Biennale and won a Golden Nica at Ars Electronica.
He studied film at Loyola Marymount University, where he was an on-air host at the campus station, KXLU.
A Long Beach native, Mark now lives in Oakland, where he also produces the podcast for The Oaklandside, the city’s nonprofit newsroom. His interests include trail running and composing music.
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What are voting rights advocates and attorneys doing to ensure free and fair elections? What can you do to make sure you're on the rolls and your vote will be counted? -
Federal agents are detaining and deporting record numbers of people across the country. Over 51,000 people were arrested in August, which is a record high.
