Investigative Journalists in an Age of Threat:
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Investigative Journalists as Cultural Mediators in an Age of Threat: Examples from Mexico and the Amazon.
Hosted by the Department of Languages and Cultures, Lancaster University; funded by the Society for Latin American Studies
Investigative journalists often become targets of violence, such as threats, intimidation, manufactured criminal charges, or assassination. Often, little is done to protect them or to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Domonique Davies, the niece of journalist Dom Phillips, and Mexico-based journalist John Gibler will speak to the work of investigative journalists who become targets of violence because of their work. Dom Phillips was murdered in June 2022 in the Amazon, together with local expert Bruno Pereira.
John Gibler is is an independent journalist based in Mexico. He is the author several books, including I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa (City Lights, 2017) and Torn from the World: A Guerrilla’s Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico (City Lights, 2018) and To Die In Mexico: Dispatches from the Drug War (City Lights, 2011).
Image credit Press Freedom Index 2024, Reporters without Borders
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