Journalism Under Fire: How Mexican Reporters Protect Themselves

The Center on the Future of War co-director Daniel Rothenberg held a discussion with Javier Garza Ramos, an independent journalist journalist based in northern Mexico. He is co-host of Expansión Daily, one of the most popular news podcasts in México, and runs the local news platform EnRe2Laguna and the radio newscast Reporte100.
For the past 15 years, Garza Ramos has worked on journalist protection and press freedom issues. As editorial director of El Siglo de Torreón, he led a newsroom that came under fire from drug cartels operating in his city and developed safety protocols that are now used by newsrooms in several countries.
He is a contributor in El País and The Washington Post, was a Knight Fellow at the International Center for Journalists focusing on digital security, and is the recipient of a Special Citation of the 2022 Maria Moors Cabot Prize for journalism in the Americas given by Columbia University.