Carlos Dada

Director and Co-founder, El Faro (El Salvador)

At ISOJ 2025, Carlos is a speaker on the panel “Doing journalism in countries with democracies on the decline,” happening on Friday, March 28, at 9:45 a.m.

Carlos Dada is the director of Salvadoran investigative news site El Faro, which he co-founded in 1998. 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 received the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University. In 2022, he was honored by the International Press Institute and International Media Support with a World Press Freedom Hero Award. He also won the International Center for Journalists’ Knight Trailblazer Award. He is a former JSK fellow at Stanford University and the author of Los Pliegues de la Cintura (Libros del KO, 2023), a selection of his Central American chronicles.