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Tijuana, where the news kills: Mexican journalists under threat

In early 2022, in the Mexican city of Tijuana, two journalists were murdered less than a week apart. The killings of Margarito Martínez and Lourdes Maldonado represent the multiple dangers facing media professionals in Mexico, one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists. They are caught between…

Journalist deaths jumped 50 percent in 2022, CPJ says

Journalist deaths jumped 50 percent in 2022, CPJ says

At least 67 journalists were killed in 2022 driven by Ukraine, Mexico, and Haiti, Committee to Protect Journalists says.

Journalist deaths jumped 50% in 2022, led by Ukraine, Mexico

Journalist deaths jumped 50% in 2022, led by Ukraine, Mexico

Killings of journalists around the world jumped by 50% in 2022 compared to the previous year, driven largely by the slayings of reporters in Ukraine, Mexico and Haiti

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Mexican officials say a notorious cartel killed 2 Tijuana journalists. Critics aren’t buying it

TIJUANA, Mexico — Journalists, academics and law enforcement officials in Mexico are not convinced that the Arellano-Félix cartel was behind the January slayings of two prominent Tijuana journalists, as the government claims.

Tribune News Service

‘Threats and bullets’: wave of killings highlights perils of journalism in Mexico

Media ‘caught in crossfire’ between criminal gangs and government, say journalists after latest murder

The Guardian - UK

Killers of Tijuana journalist thought he was responsible for report on criminal group, AG says

TIJUANA, Mexico — Communications shared between the criminals who are accused of planning the murder of Tijuana photojournalist Margarito Martínez Esquivel shows the group mistakenly believed Martínez was responsible for publishing information that exposed the network of a violent criminal group, according to the Baja California Attorney General.

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Periodismo bajo asedio: Asesinatos recientes resaltan la esquiva justicia de México

SAN DIEGO — Incluso cuando los periodistas en docenas de ciudades de México realizaron vigilias y manifestaciones en las últimas semanas para protestar por los brutales asesinatos de dos de sus colegas, las amenazas contra los reporteros locales de Tijuana continuaron apareciendo en las redes sociales y en persona.

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Journalism under siege: Recent murders highlight Mexico’s elusive justice

SAN DIEGO — Even as journalists in dozens of cities across Mexico held vigils and demonstrations in recent weeks to protest vicious killings of two of their colleagues, the threats against local Tijuana reporters continued to pour in on social media and in person.

Tribune News Service

Jean Guerrero: If killings of Mexico's journalists continue, democracy will die with them

Democracy in Mexico depends on the work of Mexican journalists, and they're being murdered with impunity.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Mexico must end killings of journalists

On Jan. 23, Mexican journalist Lourdes Maldonado López was shot dead in her car in front of her home in Tijuana. She was the third Mexican journalist to be murdered that month, after another Tijuana reporter, crime photographer Margarito Martínez, was shot and killed on Jan. 17, and reporter José…

Tribune News Service

Third Mexican journalist killed this year as press corps faces murder crisis

Third Mexican journalist killed this year as press corps faces murder crisis

Lourdes Maldonado was shot in Tijuana, a week after another journalist was killed, and a third was fatally stabbed days earlier

The Guardian - US

She told Mexico's president she feared for her life. Then she was killed

MEXICO CITY — Journalist Lourdes Maldonado López stood before the Mexican president at a televised news conference and pleaded for help.

Los Angeles Times

Two journalists exposing Mexico’s corruption and drug violence murdered within one week

Two journalists exposing Mexico’s corruption and drug violence murdered within one week

Margarito Martínez Esquivel and José Luis Gamboa are the latest casualties in the world’s most dangerous country for reporters outside war zones

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