Katherine Corcoran in Conversation with Tim DuRoche

We are pleased to welcome journalist Katherine Corcoran in conversation with Tim DuRoche, Director of Programs at WorldOregon, discussing her book In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, A Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press, published by Bloomsbury.

In the Mouth of the Wolf is a true crime story that examines the ongoing epidemic of journalist killings through the story of one legendary reporter, Regina Martinez, and her untimely death in 2012. A fearless journalist out of Mexico’s Gulf Coast state of Veracruz who wrote for the magazine Proceso, Martinez spent decades laying out the corruption and abuse underlying Mexican politics, and constantly fought to report the truth and give a voice to those without one in the country. A behind-the-scenes look at reporters who dare to step on the deadly “third rail,” where the state and organized crime have become indistinguishable, In the Mouth of the Wolf confronts how silencing the free press threatens basic protections and rule of law across the globe.

Katherine Corcoran is a former Associated Press bureau chief for Mexico and Central America and a former codirector of Cronkite Noticias, the bilingual reporting program at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She has been an Alicia Patterson fellow, the Hewlett Fellow for Public Policy at the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame, and a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow. At the AP, she led an award-winning team that broke major stories about cartel and state violence and abuse of authority in Mexico and Central America. Her columns about Mexican politics and press freedom have appeared in the Washington Post and the Houston Chronicle, and on Univision Online, among other publications. She is currently codirector of MasterLAB, an investigative editor training program in Mexico City.

Tim DuRoche has worked for thirty years as an artist, journalist, curator, and facilitator of community conversations in both Portland and Minneapolis. He is director of programs for the WorldOregon, where he has worked since 2010, producing upwards of 600 programs on global issues with world leaders, Nobel laureates, celebrated authors, and global activists. DuRoche is a frequent public speaker and moderator for cultural organizations including the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, The Never Again Coalition, Oregon Humanities, OPB, the Multnomah County Library, Portland Center Stage, and the Portland Business Alliance, among others. He is also an active jazz musician and for ten years was the host of “The New Thing,” a weekly radio show for KMHD Jazz Radio 89.1 FM.