Mexico Journo

19/05/2012

Seven Mexican journalists found dead in 2012. Of those, 6 have been killed in the past month.

The tortured body of a Mexican crime reporter was found on the side of a road in the northern state of Sonora on Friday, a day after he was kidnapped by gunmen while waiting at a car wash, authorit...

16/05/2012

Fifth journalist found dead in just two weeks.

The body of another Mexican reporter was found over the weekend by police in the trunk of his car in the central state of Morelos. René Orta Salgado was reported missing by his family on Satur...

13/05/2012

Mexican reporter Javier Valdez Cardenas explains how dangerous it is to investigate the drug trade in a short-film produced by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

http://vimeo.com/33904164 Mexican reporter Javier Valdez Cardenas shares his struggles to report drug-related violence in his own country in a short-film produced by the Committee to Protect Journa...

13/05/2012

In London and interested in the plight of Mexican journalists? Go check out this photo exhibition @ The Guardian HQ.

The Silenced: Fighting for Press Freedom in MexicoCAFOD launched a new photo exhibition, developed in collaboration with The Guardian and the Committee to Protect Journalists. ‘The Silenced: Figh...

10/05/2012

The State government of Veracruz knew its journalists were at risk.

10/05/2012

Veracruz State to be blacklisted by Mexican journalists.

05/05/2012

For the first guest post of Mexico Journo, Marcela Turati tells us what it's like to cover the drug war in her own country.

Marcela Turati is a journalist for the magazine Proceso, where she has been covering the social effects of violence related to drug trafficking in Mexico, including the impact of drug trafficking i...

05/05/2012

After covering PTSD amongst international correspondents, Dr. Anthony Feinstein is now studying the mental health of local journalists in Mexico.

A new study on the psychological health of Mexican journalists underscores the realities of day-to-day reporting in a country beset by a deadly drug war. The University of Toronto’s Dr. Antho...

05/05/2012

A bloody World Press Freedom Day for Mexico.

Three photojournalists were found dismembered and dumped in plastic bags in a canal in Veracruz on Thursday, less than a week after a reporter for an investigative newsmagazine was beaten and stran...

30/04/2012

Regina Martinez, another press victim of the Mexican drug war.

Regina Martínez, the newsweekly Proceso’s respected correspondent in the eastern state of Veracruz, was found strangled in her home in the Veracruz capital of Xalapa on 28 April. She joins the l...

24/04/2012

Mexican journalists share their pain in struggle to report violence in a short-film produced by Article 19.

http://vimeo.com/38841450 50 hours of interviews with 60 journalists across 13 cities in a short film describing violence against journalists in Mexico. Continue reading →

24/04/2012

Article 19 new report calls the Mexican state "an accomplice in violence against journalists".

During the last year there were 172 attacks in Mexico related to the exercise of press freedom. This represents an increase over 2010 when there were a total of 155 cases. The most serious violatio...