Mercedes Bluske Moscoso is an award-winning investigative journalist with extensive experience in reporting corruption, the environment, and organized crime. She works for some of the leading journalistic initiatives in Latin America, such as CONNECTAS, where she serves as security compliance officer, providing support and security training to journalists from more than 10 countries. Her work focuses on ensuring that high-risk investigations can be conducted safely by following strict security protocols aimed to address physical, psychological, digital, legal, and reputational threats.

In Bolivia, she co-founded the digital investigative media outlet Verdad con Tinta, which has been recognized with some of the country’s most prestigious journalism awards, such as the Eduardo Abaroa Award and the Hugo Ernst Rivera Award, among others. Bluske Moscoso has also contributed to La Hora de Venezuela, an unprecedented collaborative effort of 14 independent media outlets — 13 in Venezuela and CONNECTAS as the articulating organization — that bypassed the blockade imposed by the regime and safeguarded the right to information of millions in the country. She was in charge of establishing security protocols for the electoral coverage in Venezuela and supported subsequent publications by members of the project. Additionally, she has worked as a writer on regional reports assessing the state of investigative journalism in Latin America and the Caribbean, which has given her extensive knowledge of the context and challenges faced by journalists in the region.

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