Zócalo Public SquareWill It Ever Be Safe To Be a Journalist in Mexico? – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Will It Ever Be Safe To Be a Journalist in Mexico? https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/06/10/will-it-ever-be-safe-to-be-a-journalist-in-mexico/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/06/10/will-it-ever-be-safe-to-be-a-journalist-in-mexico/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:01:49 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=48510 Violence against the press has long been a pernicious problem in Mexico, but the current wave of drug wars, which began in 2006, has been particularly deadly for journalists. Reporters have been murdered, kidnapped, or disappeared—and have to live in fear not just for their own lives but for those of their loved ones as well. When he was assigned to the Dallas Morning News cartel beat in Mexico City, Alfredo Corchado had some extra protection thanks to his status as an American reporter. But it wasn’t enough to keep the country’s most powerful cartels from threatening his life. In advance of “Reporting From Mexico’s Drug Wars,” a Zócalo event featuring Corchado, author of Midnight in Mexico, Zócalo asked reporters and people who study journalism in Latin America: What can be done to make journalists safe in Mexico?

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