LA Press Freedom Week

A staff reporter for one of Brazil’s biggest news outlets and a Washington correspondent for the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, Campos Mello was personally attacked in response to her coverage of allegations of local businessesmen’s interference in the electoral campaign of then-presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro. DOWNLOAD TRANSCRIPT HERE.

Dutch journalist Jan-Albert Hootsen has been working as a freelance out of Mexico City since 2009. Hootsen reports on national affairs and cultural and socio-economic issues for various Dutch and American media and is the Mexico Representative for the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) in partnership with The Los Angeles Times is hosting the inaugural LA Press Freedom Week in Los Angeles. A series of panels will examine issues of freedom of the press as they face unprecedented challenges around the world from both totalitarian regimes and from the rising tide of populist attacks.