The new ASU California Center hosted the first Media Summit of the Americas on Tuesday, a global journalism conference that drew a top government official and a major whistleblower, as well as Latin American journalists who work under threat from their own governments.
Journalists and civil society leaders from across the Americas gathered at the ASU California Center at the historic Los Angeles Herald Examiner Building on June 7 to participate in the first-ever Media Summit of the Americas, a multilingual conference designed to address a growing information crisis in the hemisphere.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told an ASU audience that a strong press is the cornerstone of democracy and that the U.S. is working to ease the threats faced by journalists around the world. He spoke at the ASU California Center in downtown Los Angeles, where the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication hosted the first Media Summit of the Americas,
The ninth Summit of the Americas kicked off Tuesday night with remarks by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, but much of the discussion was on the safety of journalists in the Western Hemisphere and the growing mistrust of the news media.