Carmen Aristegui

La Casa Blanca by Carmen Aristegui's Team (Mexico) In November 2014 Aristegui's investigative unit revealed that a roughly $7 million mansion linked to Angélica Rivera, wife of President Enrique Peña Nieto, had been built by Grupo Higa, a government contractor. The story became shorthand for the cosy dealing between officials and contractors that defined the era. The cost came through the employer rather than a courtroom. In March 2015 MVS Radio dismissed Daniel Lizárraga and Irving Huerta, two of the reporters behind the story, then fired Aristegui when she demanded their return. MVS denied censorship. She carried on through her own site, Aristegui Noticias, a useful case of how pressure on a free press can arrive quietly.