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Location:
"Journalism in Latin America: Reporting in Minefields"
Speaker:
Javier Lafuente, Journalist; Nieman Fellow of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism; Deputy Managing Editor, El País.
Moderator:
Steve Levitsky, Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies, Department of Government; Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University.
Registration:
This event is hybrid. Please register to attend this event via Zoom.
Contact:
Darinelle Merced-Calderon
dmercedcalderon@fas.harvard.edu
Presented by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Abstract:
The profession of journalism is surrounded by multiple threats in Latin America: those from criminal organizations that operate freely; political threats, regardless of ideology; and those from power structures that try to subdue or limit a profession which, despite everything, resists being submissive.