"After CBS News hit the brakes on a 60 Minutes story about CECOT prison, the League of Latin American Citizens decided it was time to start their own newsroom. Within months, El Grito Media has become a definitive resource." Soon, they had collected more footage, from more angles—providing a definitive account that became a source for major news outlets. El Grito, Spanish for “the yell,” based in Washington, DC, is an initiative of the League of Latin American Citizens (LULAC), which provides the newsroom with funding but no editorial oversight. “After literally months of working on that, they called us up,” Proaño told me, of CBS, “and said, ‘Hey, we’re going to kill the story.’