The 2026 Reuters Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Carlos Dada under the title 'Journalism as Resistance'. Dada is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Salvadoran digital news outlet El Faro, the first digital-only news site launched in Latin America. The lecture will be followed by a panel discussion on the challenges facing journalists worldwide.

Our speaker

Carlos Dada is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of El Faro, (The Lighthouse), one of Latin America’s most renowned media organisations, with a reputation earned by its investigations on violence, organised crime, gangs, migration, corruption and human rights violations in Central America.

Dada is an investigative reporter and a nonfiction writer. His book Los Pliegues de la Cintura is a series of long stories on violence, organised crime and its effects on millions of hopeless people eager for change in Central America. He is also the host of the podcast Malas Compañías.

He has been named World Press Freedom Hero by the International Press Institute, and is a recipient, among other distinctions, of the Maria Moors Cabot Award by Columbia University and the Trailblazer Award by the International Center for Journalists. Today, at the onset of a dictatorship in El Salvador, he and his newsroom are in exile, facing the enormous challenge of telling the story while away.

Previous speakers

In previous years, the Reuters Memorial Lecture has been delivered by Dr Jelani Cobb, Dean of Columbia Journalism School; AG Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times; Carlos F. Chamorro, Nicaraguan journalist and editor of Confidencial; Alessandra Galloni, editor-in-chief of Reuters; Patrícia Campos Mello, Brazilian journalist and columnist at Folha; Rebecca Corbett, New York Times investigations editor; Siddharth Varadarajan, Indian journalist and editor of The Wire; and Marty Baron, at the time editor-in-chief of the Washington Post.

Attendance in person is by invitation only. Register below to watch online.