Miguel Ortiz

Miguel Ortiz edits the Fullimedia culture desk. He is a long-form writer and critic, and he built the culture beat as the most editorial corner of Fullimedia — the place for ideas that take more than five hundred words to land.

His beat is the connective tissue of contemporary life: books, art, design, food and travel, and the ideas that link them. He is drawn to the essay and the considered review, to the cultural moment that still makes sense a year later rather than the one that trends for an afternoon. He believes a good cultural piece should send the reader somewhere — to a book, a city, a table, an argument.

At Fullimedia, Miguel holds culture writing to the standard of honesty over hype: a review that argues its case, reporting that respects its subjects, and recommendations he would actually stand behind. He is especially interested in the contemporary cultural life of the wider Spanish-speaking world, and in the way food and travel reveal how people actually live.

Miguel is based in Mexico City and keeps a list of restaurants longer than is socially advisable.