In Conversation with Gustavo Gorriti: Investigating in the Face of Repression

Increasingly, authoritarian governments abuse laws, manufacture security concerns, deploy oligarch allies, and misuse state organs to intimidate and persecute independent journalists: an autocrats’ playbook tactic to “investigate the investigators.” In this critically topical keynote session, Gustavo Gorriti, the pioneering director of IDL-Reporteros in Peru, shares lessons learned and key insights about the power of collaboration, new tools, and uncompromising independence in the face of repression.