Nieman Fellows from Peru’s IDL-Reporteros newsroom face new threats

In a move widely criticized by media watchdogs as an assault on press freedom, Peru’s Congress in June approved a report recommending criminal charges against prosecutors, state attorneys, and award-winning journalist Gustavo Gorriti, NF ’86, the founder and director of the Peruvian investigative media outlet IDL-Reporteros . The report from the parliamentary Muñante Commission criticized a 2019…