“I knew since I was a child that I wanted to be a journalist,” says Carolina Mella, the communicator who replaced Dayanna Monroy on the show “Te veo Ecuador”

Narrator. This is how Manabita journalist Carolina Mella, the new host of the program, presents herself on her social networks I see you Ecuadorspace of Teleamazon from whom her friend and partner said goodbye in April Dianna Monroe. Associated with this production since March of this year, Mella currently shares the program that is broadcast from Monday to Friday at 18:00, with Martina Vera Pérez.

“The audience and I have been indirectly connected since March when I joined the team I see you Ecuador as a journalistic producer. I am in charge of the content of the program, for monitoring the journalists in defining the axis of the report and for live links”, he says for this newspaper.

Monroy’s resignation moved the pieces so that she joined the screen, with Vera, also a space director. “The opportunity to host the show came when Dayanna Monroy moved to the United States to work and expand her career. The channel decided that I should lead the presentation and that I could also be in front of the screen,” says the communicator from Manta.

Mella, with 16 years of experience, also says that, even though she is the only journalist in her family, she has always been confident in pursuing this profession.

“I knew from childhood that I wanted to be a journalist. My father watched (and continues to watch) at least three newscasts a day. I grew up watching the news and my mother always said I had a gift for communication. She was the girl who always recited at every family event or knew how to give a speech in front of everyone. “It was clear to me that I wanted to be a journalist when I enrolled in college, and I started on that path from the beginning,” he points out. He recalls from his student days: “I liked to look through newspaper archives, go to film university papers and spend hours in the editing room building stories.” Journalism conquered me from the first moment and I live it with a lot of passion”, he adds.

“I am very happy because since ‘Te veo Ecuador’ premiered, I have loved the spirit of the program, which not only talks about current events, but also highlights who we Ecuadorians are: resilient, enterprising, creative, generous people. It’s good to see yourself like that in these turbulent times, because people have a hard time bearing the complex situation of insecurity that we are experiencing and in ‘Te veo Ecuador’ we talk about this concern, but from human skin”, Carolina Mella, journalist.

“I see you Ecuador”

The program, Mella explains, focuses on solving the problems people are talking about. “We care a lot about the narrative, how to tell it and give a different axis to traditional news. That’s why the main protagonists of our stories are people”, he believes and confirms that for now there will be no changes in the content of the production.

TV input

During the university graduation ceremony, he received an invitation to enter the world of work. News producer TC television he invited her to a casting. “I remember repeating the shot ten times because I was so nervous. In the background I had dancers from the Jacchigu ballet repeating the choreography over and over, and the cameraman was on a chair with his arms outstretched holding this very heavy camera so he could get a high angle shot, in the end they chose me and that’s where it all started,” he recalls. is 40-year-old Mella.

IN Ecuavisa, instead, he worked for more than eight years, the program was 360 vision one of the last productions in which he participated in the television company. “It was a great school and without a doubt a turning point in my career. WITH 360 vision I traveled all over the country, I did reports in other countries in America and I was even able to be in Antarctica, and some of these works received recognition from awards such as Iris in Spain and Jorge Mantilla Ortega in Ecuador”.

The investigative program in which he shared with film talents such as Tania Tinoco, as a result of the pandemic, became a 15-minute slot after the Sunday news on Canal del Cerro. These changes resulted in the team rotating its functions with staff news. “For that moment in my life, I needed to take things a little more calmly, have time for myself, and the opportunity to work in a digital environment simply presented itself. first fruits, that although I had the intensity required by journalism, I could work remotely, be in Manabí close to my family and I decided to make a change”, he explains about his departure from the channel.

This transition also allowed him to become a newspaper correspondent Earth from Spain in Ecuador.

Tania Tinoco, her friend

About the journalist from Machala who was one of the most recognized journalists in the country and anchor from ecuavisa, Mella admits that his nose for finding stories was spot on, as was his connection with the characters he interviewed. “I admired that about her and how she managed to make her interlocutors speak strong phrases to her,” he adds.

Outside the field of work, Tinoco marked his life with teachings related to the spiritual plane. “She always gave me and my friends advice. It was the desire and pursuit of what you want, what makes you happy. She said that there is nothing else in the world but to be happy and I shared that with her and I try to apply it every day”, says Mella, who started her profession in Quito, where she lived for more than ten years. years.

Dreams to fulfill

Mella is aware that journalism is a very demanding job, but there are goals she wants to achieve in her daily life. “I dream of writing a book and having it podcast, but the path of life does not lead me there. In the meantime, I’m taking advantage of these wonderful opportunities,” he admits.