2017

Friday, April 21st

6:00pm

Carmen Aristegui: "Trump from the Mexican Perspective"

We are at capacity – seating is not reserved and will be first come, first served.

***LIVE-STREAM AVAILABLE HERE***

Acclaimed Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui will present her views on how the news media in Mexico perceives Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office.

The event will include a conversation between Aristegui and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and UC Berkeley investigative reporting Professor Lowell Bergman.

Aristegui has received numerous awards throughout her career as a radio and broadcast journalist in Mexico and Latin America. Fortune Magazine
included her in its 2017 list of World’s Greatest Leaders.

Recommended Reading:

Expelled from Mexican radio after ‰”blow from censorship,” Carmen Aristegui’s show returns via the Internet” (The Knight Center for Journalism at UT Austin, January 2017)

Mexican Journalist Who Exposed Scandal Says Lawsuit Is Meant as a Warning (The New York Times, July 2016)

Dismissal of News Anchor in Mexico: A Return to “÷Bad Old Days’ of Media Control? (Vice News, March 2015)

Press contact: Marlena Telvick at journalism@berkeley.edu.

LOCATION

Sibley Auditorium - Bechtel Engineering Center

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