birth_place name article_title education birth_name occupation
quito , ecuador janet hinostroza janet hinostroza
 central university of ecuador janet hinostroza television journalist , investigative journalist
janet hinostroza

janet hinostroza is an ecuadoran television journalist and one of the best known personalities on ecuadorian television .
she is the anchor on a morning news program , `` la mañana de 24 horas , '' and was the creator and anchor of the long-running investigative news program `` 30 plus , '' which aired on teleamazonas for more than a decade , investigating such subjects as human trafficking , arms trafficking , government and police corruption , and extrajudicial killings .
hinostroza has been a major target and opponent of the ecuadorian government , and has also been a recurring topic of president rafael correa 's weekly tv and radio talks , which usually last several hours .
correa has referred to her dismissively as `` blondie . ''
in 2012 , after hinostroza reported on a suspicious loan by the state bank cofiec to a businessman allegedly associated with a cousin of correa , she received death threats and took a leave of absence for safety reasons .
due to this she was offered security surveillance by the minister of the interior josé serrano to which hinostroza gratefully did not accept .
in 2013 , she was awarded the international press freedom award of the new york-based committee to protect journalists .
