Alfredo Corchado

A few weeks before the U.S. election, I traveled to Wisconsin, the crucial battleground state some 1,500 miles away from what’s been described as a place where evil runs rampant,…

Together with colleagues around the globe, we call on the Mexican government to solve one case: the murder of reporter Javier Valdez, and thus elevate assaults on journalists to the…

I’ve seen this bad movie before—in fact, far too many times: strongmen, whether vicious kingpins or populist leaders bullying reporters in either my native Mexico or across Latin America, authorities…

Telling a story on the stage, not the page

Alfredo Corchado, who has covered Mexico for the Dallas Morning News since 1994, was interviewed at Lippmann House. Video from the interview is available. What was it like coming to…

Dallas Morning News Mexico bureau chief Alfredo Corchado, NF ’09, recently sat down at Lippmann House to discuss his year as a fellow and his new book, “Midnight in Mexico.”An…

Through her reporting and activism, Mexican journalist Marcela Turati, recipient of the 2013 Lyons Award, is giving voice to those who lack political power and access to the media

Ours was a year of uncertainty, especially after reverberations from September’s economic crash worked their way through the global economy. It was the fall of 2008, and my Nieman year…