Work in Progress Seminar - En la Boca del Lobo (In the Mouth of the Wolf): The Press in Mexico
A narrative non-fiction story of the journalist killings in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Veracruz state explains what happens to a fledgling democracy when the press is completely discredited and attacked. Without the checks and balances of a watchdog press, parts of Mexico have been free to morph into narco-political states. There are other factors involved, of course. But this story, part of a book project, focuses on what happens to a society in the absence of a vibrant, independent press.
Katherine Corcoran
Katherine Corcoran, the 2017-2018 Hewlett Fellow for Public Policy at the Kellogg Institute, is a freelance journalist and author of In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, A Coverup and the True Cost of Silencing the Press (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022), which she worked on while in residence with the Kellogg Institute...
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