David Hidalgo
Ojo-publico.com
News Director
Peru
David Hidalgo is News Director at OjoPúblico, a digital investigative media outled from Perú. He is author of the book: "Sombras de un rescate" (Planeta), a non-fiction story about the last armed action perpetrated by the terrorist group MRTA in Peru. He directed the team of the Stolen Memory Project (Memoria Robada), a trasnational investigation on the trafficking of the Latin American cultural patrimony, that was awarded with the Third Prize at the 2016 Latin American Investigative Journalism Awards. He was also a member of the Peruvian team whom received the Data Journalism Award 2015 for Best Investigation of the Year (Small newsroom), granted by the Global Editors Network. He received the Human Rights and Journalism Award twice, in 2006 and 2015. Hidalgo was fellow of the 2009 Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists, organized by the United States Department of State. He was editor-in-chief of Etiqueta Negra magazine, an awarded publication of narrative journalism.
