From Democracy Fighters to DDLD
Defensores de la Democracia (Democracy Fighters). Ibarra Chaoul, who is Mexican, set out to collect and preserve stories by murdered journalists in her home country, a delicate duty that no one else had attempted before at such a scale. In October, she launched Defensores de la Democracia, or “Democracy Fighters,” a living digital archive of more than twelve thousand clips by forty journalists killed in Mexico over thirty-plus years.
“Democracy Fighters” Opens in Mexico City. October 9, 2019, midday. Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul (the project’s creator), Michael Krisch (Brown’s Deputy Director) and Tim Robertson (co-founder of the design firm Good Digital Culture) spent the day in their hotel putting finishing touches on the web site and database.
COLUMBIA CLUB. Join us for the presentation of Democracy Fighters, a living archive, and a conversation with Emmanuel Guillén Lozano, Mexican photojournalist.
Seminario sobre prensa y poder. Democracy Fighters. A living archive. Archivo viviente en homenaje a los periodistas asesinados.
Ponente: Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul – Ver Facebook Live
Hablé en Cuestión de Poder con Guau Alegret sobre violencia contra periodistas en México, el juicio del Chapo y mi libro sobre el mismo.
The Dialogue: No News is Not Good News: Combating Pervasive Violence Against Journalists in Mexico
a panel discussion featuring Maureen Meyer, Director of the Mexico Program at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA); Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul, Founder and Lead of Democracy Fighters; Dolia Estévez, weekly columnist for SinEmbargo.com and freelance journalist; and Edison Lanza, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
El periodismo se enfrenta a una diversidad de retos todos los días: Ibarra
Fui invitada a La Nota Dura de El Financiero TV Bloomberg donde hablé sobre el tema. “El periodismo es información pública que nos beneficia a todos; qué tanto como población lo valoramos”, mencionó Alejandra Ibarra, autora de ‘El Chapo Guzmán. El juicio del siglo’, sobre esta profesión en México.
The Aronson Awards & The Jaime Lucero Mexican Studies Institute/CUNY poresentan: “Crisis para los periodistas mexicanos”. Panel & Discusión.
2019 - Attacks on free press in Mexico
Organized by The Bronx Documentary Center, during Photoville, I spoke with Mexican photojournalist Emmanuel Guillén Lozano, and renown Propublica reporter Ginger Thompson about different dangers faced by Mexican reporters.
2017 - Reporting in dangerous contexts
To welcome the new class of journalism students at the Columbia Journalism School, I spoke about different dangerous contexts where reporters do their work, focusing on Mexico. The conversation was moderated by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
2017 - Dart Center
For Dart Center’s award ceremony, I spoke about the hardships and risks faced by Mexican journalists in our country.
2013 - Colegio de México
Participated in a panel about censorship and a comparative approach between Turkey and Mexico.