| Description |
1 online resource (243 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Rubén Espinosa I -- Rubén Espinosa II -- Moisés Sánchez -- Pedro Canché -- Proceso -- Along the Border -- Laura Castellanos -- Carmen Aristegui -- Javier Valdez -- The End of the Telenovela -- The Beginning of a New Regime -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
"A harrowing and unforgettable look at reporting in Mexico, one of the world's most dangerous countries to be a journalist In 2017, Mexico edged out Iraq and Syria as the deadliest country in the world in which to be a reporter, with at least fourteen journalists killed over the course of the year. The following year another ten journalists were murdered, joining the almost 150 reporters who have been killed since the mid-2000s in a wave of violence that has accompanied Mexico's war on drugs. In Killing the Story, award-winning journalist and filmmaker Temoris Grecko reveals how journalists are risking their lives to expose crime and corruption. From the streets of Veracruz to the national television studios of Mexico City, Grecko writes about the heroic work of reporters at all levels'from the local self-trained journalist, Moises Sanchez, whose body was found dismembered by the side of a road after he reported on corruption by the state's governor, to high-profile journalists such as Javier Valdez CArdenas, gunned down in the streets of Sinaloa, and Carmen Aristegui, battling the forces attempting to censor her. In the vein of Charles Bowden's Murder City and Anna Politskaya's A Russian Diary, Killing the Story is a powerful memorial to the work of Grecko's lost colleagues, which shows a country riven by brutality, hypocrisy, and corruption, and sheds a light on how those in power are bent on silencing those determined to reveal the truth and bring an end to corruption." -- Provided by the publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Recorded Books, viewed July 07, 2020) |
| Subject |
Journalists -- Violence against -- Mexico
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Journalists -- Crimes against -- Mexico
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Journalism -- Mexico -- History -- 21st century
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Investigative reporting -- Mexico
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers.
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Investigative reporting
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Journalism
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Journalists -- Crimes against
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Journalists -- Violence against
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Mexico
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stockwell, Diane, translator.
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Recorded Books, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9781620975039 |
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1620975033 |
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