Censor or Die: The Death of Mexican News in the Age of Drug Cartels
Brad Horn - The Washington Post
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December 16, 2015
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One journalist's experience on Mexico's deadliest beat (The Washington Post)

Hildebrando "Brando” Deandar’s family has been in Northern Mexico’s journalism business for nearly 100 years. But in the last ten years, one beat has become a potentially fatal task: reporting on the country’s savage drug cartels.

Mexico has long been a deadly place for reporters. Some 88 journalists have been slain in the last two decades, according to Article 19, a worldwide advocacy group that promotes press freedom.

Read the story at The Washington Post

Related: Another Chilling Year of Killings and Attacks on Journalists (The Guardian)

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