'Independent Journalism in Latin America: El Faro'

When: April 21, 2022 9:00am

The Bilingual Journalism M.A. presents: "Independent Journalism in Latin America: El Faro" – a talk with Jimmy O. Alvarado and María Luz Nóchez.

El Faro is an online digital newspaper founded in 1998 in El Salvador by Jorge Simán and Carlos Dada, sons of political exiles who returned to El Salvador with the purpose of starting a newspaper that would change Salvadoran media. For years it was produced by journalism students

María Luz Nochez has worked as a staff reporter for Salvadoran investigative newsroom El Faro since 2011 and has coordinated the opinion section since 2019. She specializes in arts and culture, gender-based violence against women and the LGBTQ community, and Indigenous people's rights.

Jimmy Osvaldo Alvarado is an investigative journalist with eight years of experience. He specializes in transparency, politics, economics and human rights. He contributed to the Panama Papers' global investigation project in 2016. He was also part of the team investigating the hidden accounts of former presidents of El Salvador.


Audience: All

Where

Campus: Virtual

Address

United States
US

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Contacts

Jessica Retis School of Journalism

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