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Carlos Eduardo Huertas, director of CONNECTAS, a pioneer and leader Latin American investigative journalism and collaboration platform, lectured students and professors from the Lee Caplin School of Journalism and Media about the power of collaboration to reveal corruption and illegal activities in the public sphere.
“The collaborations we’ve participated in have helped protect journalists, strengthen investigations, expand our ability to obtain more and better coverage angles, and have a greater impact on dissemination,” said Huertas.
Carlos Huertas founded Connectas in 2012 as a Niewman Fellow at Harvard University. With 160 members in 19 countries, CONNECTAS has exposed abuses of power, human rights violations and the environment, earning them international recognition.
“It is a privilege and an honor to have Carlos in our School”, said Prof. Alejandro Alvarado, director of the Spanish-Language Journalism Masters at FIU, and he added that the School is looking forward for a stronger collaboration with CONNECTAS in areas such as certifications for Hispanic journalists, workshops for Spanish-Speaking journalism students, and paneles on the issues that affect Latinos living in the US and Latin America and the Caribbean.
“It is great to have the opportunity to be here at the Lee Caplin School of Journalism and Media to kick-off a relationship that we hope will consolidate,” said Huertas. “I am very excited that this is the first opportunity to talk about CONNECTAS, an organization working in Latin America.”
The conference was streamed live on Instagram accounts @FIUPeriodismo and @CONNECTAS.
