Mexican Journalist to Receive WKU’s Award for Courageous International Reporting

The School of Journalism & Broadcasting at Western Kentucky University will welcome Mexican journalist Marcela Turati to campus September 27

as the recipient of the third annual Fleischaker/Greene Award for Courageous International Reporting.

Turati is a reporter for the magazine Proceso, where she reports about human rights, social development and the impact of drug violence and its victims. She is co-founder of the network Periodistas de a Pie (Journalists on Foot), dedicated to training journalists to improve the quality of their journalism and to defend freedom of expression, and she recently founded the organization, Fifth Element Lab (www.quintoelab.org), devoted to strengthening investigative journalism in the country.

contact Teresa Jameson in the School of Journalism & Broadcasting office, at 270-745-4143