Reporting on your colleagues' murders changes how you work
The murder of two journalists in Tijuana in less than a week has shocked reporters there and sparked outrage nationwide.
by Amy Isackson
Jan 27, 2022
3 minutes
"I fear for my life."
That's what reporter Lourdes Maldonado told Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador during a press conference nearly three years ago.
Last Sunday night, Maldonado was shot dead outside of her home in Tijuana.
She is the second journalist to be murdered in the city in less than a week — the third killed in Mexico already this year — which has cast a pall on reporters there, as they take photos of their colleagues' dead bodies and write about and investigate their deaths.
While the motives for the killings are
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