This week, Ecuadoran journalist and the editor-in-chief of privately-run television station Ecuavisa, Allen Panchana Macay, will be speaking to UCO journalism students and the public about his work and viewpoints on journalism as a whole.
The event is part of a planned series of talks by journalists, hosted by professor Yvette Walker’s Press Freedom class.
“One of the things the class is doing is Skyping in journalists from around the world,” Walker said. “Macay was in Oklahoma visiting a friend, so we asked him to come speak.”
Macay will be showing a video about one of the big stories that happened in Ecuador in 2010—a police uprising that resulted in the detainment of incumbent president Rafael Correa. He will also be talking about his thoughts on democracy and freedom of expression in the country.
“Many times, I have been beaten, threatened,” Macay said in an email interview. “I covered protests and several overthrows of presidents, in the midst of armed conflict. I’ve also been a border reporter, and I had to go to the jungle, close to where armed guerillas of the FARC were. Ecuador shares borders with Colombia.”
Macay will speak on Wednesday, Feb. 22 in the Mass Communications Building, room 120, from 11 a.m. to 11:50.