Скачать или смотреть Lydia Cacho: “My Life As…” (Excerpt: Journalism in Mexico)

For more than 20 years, Lydia Cacho has been a journalist, human rights activist and author. Her work has taken her to dangerous places, making her a target of drug dealers and Mexican authorities. In addition to her journalism work, Cacho also founded and directs the Refuge Center for Abused Women of Cancun and is the president of the Center for Women's Assistance.For more information on Lydia Cacho, please visit her website at http://www.lydiacacho.net/

“My Life As” is the Stony Brook University School of Journalism major lecture series, in which top journalists describe how they discovered their passion and answer questions from students. Since 2007 more than 100 journalists have travelled to Stony Brook for the event.

News Literacy Course Themes: Journalism Methods, Truth & Verification, Why Journalism?, Passion/Vocation, Information Neighborhood, Watchdog Journalism, Power of Information, Battle for Control of Information