Event Description
Gisela Pérez de Acha (’20) in conversation with journalist and author Katherine Corcoran about her newly released book In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up and the True Cost of Silencing the Press
Speakers
Katherine Corcoran is a former Associated Press bureau chief for Mexico and Central America. She has been an Alicia Patterson fellow, the Hewlett Fellow for Public Policy at the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame, and a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow. At the AP, she led an award-winning team that broke major stories about cartel and state violence and abuse of authority in Mexico and Central America. Her columns about Mexican politics and press freedom have appeared in the Washington Post, the Houston Chronicle, and Univision Online, among other publications. She was co-director of Cronkite Noticias, the bilingual reporting program at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and is co-leader of MasterLAB, an investigative editor training program in Mexico City.
Gisela Pérez de Acha reports on extremism, disinformation and environmental issues for the Investigative Reporting Program. She co-teaches the Open-Source Investigative Reporting class with Prof. David Barstow and J.D. PhD Alexa Koenig: the country’s first multidisciplinary investigative reporting course using open source intelligence (OSINT) techniques at a university. Gisela is also a human rights lawyer, an open source researcher at Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center Investigations Lab. She recently won a team Polk Award for her work on the PBS FRONTLINE documentary “American Insurrection” and was also part of an Emmy award-winning team at the New York Times for “The Siege of Culiacán”. Born and raised in Mexico, Pérez de Acha speaks fluent Spanish, English, French and Portuguese. She has a master’s degree from Berkeley Journalism.
Cosponsors
Presented by the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and co-sponsored by CLAS.