Join us for a conversation that will explore themes in Vanessa Freije's latest book,
Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico. Please note, this event will be available in English and Spanish through simultaneous translation. Co-organized with the CLACS at NYU. Free and open to the public. Register via Eventbrite.
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About the Event:
Mexico is one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists, and murders against media workers have only increased under the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. This event brings together scholars and journalists from Canada, Mexico, and the United States to discuss how the historical development of Mexican media, and the use of scandal as a mode of politics, has shaped the challenges and promises for Mexican journalists reporting today. In addition to considering the dangerous conditions under which reporters work, participants will discuss questions of representation and access: which stories make it to audiences and whose concerns get represented? The conversation will explore these and other pressing issues concerning Mexican journalism through a conversation about the recently published book by Vanessa Freije Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico (Duke University Press).