
Mexico's Journalists Under Siege
November 6, 2008 by Stan Alcorn
An unprecedented spike in violence is testing the skills and freedoms of the press in North America's youngest democracy.
An unprecedented spike in violence is testing the skills and freedoms of the press in North America's youngest democracy.
With the support of the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, the International News Safety Institute (INSI) has set up a global hostage crisis help center for journalists and other news professionals kidnapped as a result of their work.
At Berkeley's conference on The Media at War, speakers raised tough questions about press freedom and independence, about the relationship between media and military, and about the ethics of presenting, or withholding, graphic and disturbing details to mainstream audiences.