Roderic Camp, the Philip M. McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim, will speak on Sunday, April 25, on The Media and Democracy in Mexico and the United States: the Role of the Press, at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for in Washington, D.C. His lecture is sponsored by the Mexico Institute and Foreign Affairs en Espanol, the Spanish-language edition of Foreign Affairs.
Camp will address a group of American and Mexican foreign correspondents from leading newspapers in the United States and Mexico, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, on the perceptions of Mexican and American reporters about their neighboring countries. The talk opens a conference on Reporting on Their Neighbors: a Conference of Mexican and American Journalists.
Camp is the author of 20 books, including Politics in Mexico: The Democratic Transformation (Oxford University Press, 2003) and Mexico's Mandarins, Crafting a Power Elite for the 21st Century (University of California Press, 2002).