Please join us Tuesday, Jan. 17, for cafecito and conversation with journalism scholar and historian Celeste González de Bustamante, Professor and Centennial Chair in Communication, School of Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin
Cafecito and Research Talk: How Journalists Survive Violence(s): Examining Pathways of Resistance and Resilience in Mexico. Center for Communication, Culture and Change, Wolfson 1021, 10:45 am.
Abstract: At least 17 media workers were killed in Mexico in 2022, making last year the deadliest year on record for Mexico, which ranks as the most dangerous country in the world for those whose profession is to inform their communities. Since 2000, more than 165 journalists have been killed. Despite a federal law that makes it a crime to attack journalists or human rights workers, the conditions continue to be dire. Corrupt government officials collude with organize crime groups in attempts to silence journalists, and reporters who work on the country’s periphery are at most risk. For more than 10 years, Drs. Celeste González de Bustamante and Jeannine E. Relly have been examining how journalists on the country’s periphery have responded to mounting pressures and continued threats. In this talk, Dr. González de Bustamante discusses how journalists have turned to one another and to their communities to resist pressures and create their own networks of resilience. A lack of support from media owners, the government, and the public, journalists have taken it upon themselves to become their own activists.