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After Maltese Journalist's Murder, Dozens More Reporters Pick Up Her Leads

The effort is led by the group Forbidden Stories, which aims to show that killing a journalist will not stop a story from coming to light.
People leave the church of St. Francis, after the Archbishop of Malta celebrated mass in memory of murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia on the six-month anniversary of her death in Valletta, Malta, on April 16, 2018. (Matthew Mirabelli/AFP/Getty Images)

A year ago, Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb.

Her murder is still unsolved, and her work was unfinished — until 45 journalists from across the world took up the investigations she started. For the past six months, a group called Forbidden Stories, which continues the work of journalists who have been killed or silenced, has been following Galizia’s leads.

Last week, five members of the European.”

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