Carlos Dada

Carlos Dada is the director of El Faro, which he co-founded in 1998, and is the lead plaintiff in Dada v. NSO Group. His reporting focuses on corruption and violence, and he has reported from numerous conflict zones, including Guatemala, Honduras, Iraq, Mexico, and Venezuela. In 2011, he won the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Latin American Reporting. In 2022, he was honored by the International Press Institute and International Media Support with a World Press Freedom Hero Award, which recognizes “journalists who have made significant contributions to promote press freedom, particularly in the face of great personal risk.” He also won the International Center for Journalists’ Knight Trailblazer Award for “his hard-hitting investigative reporting, lyrical writing, and visionary leadership.” He lives in San Salvador, El Salvador.