Journalists Killings in Mexico: Threats to Press Freedom/Threats to Society
A discussion sponsored by the SPJ International Community.
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
6:00 pm ET
Guests:
Katherine Corcoran
Freelance Journalist
Former AP Bureau Chief in Mexico City
Angela Kocherga
News Director
KTEP – El Paso
Vicente Calderon
Founder/Editor
Tijuana Press
The killing of four journalists in Mexico in just the first four weeks of the new year once again drew our attention to the threats journalists face in Mexico. The Committee to Protect Journalists called Mexico the most danger place, except for a war zone, for journalists.
Katherine Corcoran is a former Associated Press journalist and bureau chief who worked in Mexico and Latin America for nine years. Under her leadership, the AP broke major stories, including extra-judicial killings by the Mexican army and a DEA drug raid that mistakenly targeted civilians in Honduras.
She is the author of the upcoming book In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Coverup and the True Cost of Silencing the Press, Bloomsbury Publishing, October 2022.
Angela Kocherga has covered the southwest border and Mexico for public media, television stations and digital news organizations. She served as Mexico Bureau Chief for a group of leading television stations and later opened a border bureau for that same media company.
She returned to her roots in public radio in 2019. She has earned several awards for her work including the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot Prize for courageous reporting in Latin America in 2019 from Columbia University, the Edward R. Murrow award for best radio documentary in 2020.
Vicente Calderon is a well-respected journalist in Tijuana who founded Tijuana Press, an independent news site https://tijuanapress.com/
Guest Host
Robert Buckman
Retired journalism professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Latin American Specialist