IRE Panel: Human Rights Investigations

June 18, 2016
3:00 pm
New Orleans Marriott, Salon D
555 Canal Street
New Orleans, LA, 70130, United States
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At the 2016 Investigative Reporters & Editors Conference in New Orleans, the Dart Center will sponsor a panel on human rights investigations.

Speakers

Investigator Reporter and TV Producer Mostafa Elmarsafawy. @marsafawy

Carlos Dada is founder and director of El Faro, a Salvadoran Online Media awarded for its investigative pieces on organized crime and war crimes. He is a Stanford Knight Fellow 05, and has received the Maria Moors Cabot Award 2011, LASA Media Award 2010 and the Anna Politkovskaja Award 2012. @carlosdada

Angela Kocherga serves as a director of the borderlands bureau of Cronkite News at Arizona PBS and a professor of practice at the Cronkite School of Journalism. As Bureau Chief in Mexico City and on the border for Belo and later Tegna Broadcasting, she's reported on drug violence, Mexico's disappeared and the mass migration of Central American children. On the US side she's covered the security buildup, human and drug smuggling among other stories. @AKochergaBorder

Bruce Shapiro is executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, based at Columbia Journalism School. He is editor of Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America. @dartcenter