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Bristol Post
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Yvonne Deeney

Bristol journalist killed in Amazon remembered ahead of World Press Freedom Day

Tributes have been paid to journalists killed in 2022 and 2023 - including Bristol's Dom Philips - ahead of the 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day. A total of 68 journalists were killed in 2022, the highest death toll since 2018.

Dom worked for many years as a journalist in Bristol where he set up an events magazine, before moving to Brazil. NUJ members heard a speech from Dom's niece Dominique Davis. He was murdered alongside indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in Brazil in June last year.

Dominique spoke about her uncle and his colleague Bruno at an NUJ conference. She said: “Their story is not just one of two men killed in the forest.

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