'None of Us Are Safe in the United States Right Now': A Roundtable on Press Freedom
Latino USA
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4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Governments worldwide are restricting press freedom, with the U.S. experiencing a drastic decline under the second Trump administration. Funding cuts to public media, lawsuits, federal censorship, and confrontations with ICE have become the norm. Journalists of color, Latino and immigrant journalists are disproportionately impacted. In this episode, we are joined by Maritza Félix, the founder and director of Conecta Arizona, and José Zamora, the regional director for the Americas at the Committee to Protect Journalists to discuss the state of press freedom and what it means for our democracy.
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