Surrounded by images of journalists killed for their work, Carlos Dada, the director of El Faro in El Salvador, remarked on the need for journalists to continue pushing back against authoritarian, anti-free press policies, even in the face of harassment, threats, and other risks to press freedom worldwide. “The ones who are here work under […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is today publishing the speech given by Salvadorian journalist Carlos Dada, founder of El Faro, as he accepted the World Press Freedom Hero award at IPI’s World Congress 2022 at Columbia University in New York on 9 September 2022.     Thank you, board members of the International Press Institute and the International Media Support, for this […]

Heroic journalism and courageous independent reporting from around the world were honoured during the award ceremony at the International Press Institute’s (IPI) World Congress at Columbia University in New York on September 9. The annual World Press Freedom Hero award was presented to Carlos Dada, editor-in-chief and co-founder of the pioneering online news site El […]

IPI and IMS are proud to announce that distinguished Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a pioneering figure for women in media in the Middle East who was killed while on assignment this year, and El Salvador’s Carlos Dada, co-founder and director of El Faro, one of Latin America’s most prominent online investigative news outlets, […]