CPJ to host Press Freedom Summit: Mexico

New York June 11, 2019–The Committee to Protect Journalists will host a press freedom summit in Mexico City on June 18, bringing together journalists, policy makers, and activists. Panels will cover the regional backsliding in press freedom, impunity in attacks against journalists in Mexico, and the relationship between the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the media.

Speakers include the investigative journalist Anabel Hernández, congressional representative Tatiana Clouthier, and Univision news anchor Enrique Acevedo.

Details, including a full line up and registration information, is available at https://cpj.boletia.com/

The summit organizing committee is: CPJ, Zeta Tijuana general director Adela Navarro Bello, Reporters Without Borders, Article 19-Office for Mexico and Central America, and R3D: Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales.

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What: Press Freedom Summit: Mexico

Where: Museo Nacional de Antropología, Auditorio Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexico City

When: June 18, 2019, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. (GMT-5)

Who: Committee to Protect Journalists

Press contact: [email protected]

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