'Adios': Juarez Newspaper 'Norte' Shuts Down, Citing Rampant Threats to Journalists Daniella Silva - NBC News
go to original April 3, 2017

A woman reads the last edition of the newspaper El Norte de Chihuahua, in Chihuahua, Mexico, on Sunday (Alejandro Bringas/European Pressphoto Agency)

“I would rather they lose their jobs than lose their lives,” said Oscar A. Cantu Murguia, the editor of Norte, referring to his employees.

A Mexican newspaper in the border city of Juarez announced it was closing on Sunday following the violent death of a journalist, saying not one more of its reporters would pay a deadly price for their work.

Oscar Cantú Murguía, the owner of Norte newspaper in Juarez, said in a farewell address to readers that the "tragic" killing of journalist Miroslava Breach on March 23, other "deadly assaults" and the overall lack of security for journalists had made it too dangerous for the publication to continue working freely and safely.

Cantú said Sunday's paper would be the final print edition.



Breach, who was a correspondent for national newspaper La Jornada and also collaborated with Norte, was shot eight times outside her garage and died while she was being taken to the hospital, according to The Associated Press.

La Jornada said Breach was with one of her three children at the time of the attack.

Cantú said that throughout its 27 years, Norte was attacked and punished for exposing acts of corruption. But he said he "was not willing for any more" of his collaborators to pay the price of their lives for their work as journalists under his watch, nor to pay that price himself.

The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas said at the time that Breach's death was one of three in Mexico in March alone.

Read the rest at NBC News

Related: Journalist killed in Mexico’s Veracruz State, 20th Since 2000 (Reporters Without Borders)

Related: Mexico Press Freedom: Journalists Live Between Fear and Bribes (Mexico Voices)

Related: Open Wars Against a Free Press (Capitol Hill Blue)

Related: The Mexican Journalists Club Denounces Authorities' Neglect Against Aggressions (Prensa Latina)

Related: Predators of Press Freedom Use Fake News as a Censorship Tool (Reporters Without Borders)

Related: Mexican Government Abandons Society and Journalists to Criminal Cartels (Mexico Voices)

Related: If You Want to Murder a Journalist in Mexico, Chances Are You'll Get Away with It (teleSUR)

Related: Journalists' Safety: Tips for Staying Safe While Covering Violent Protests (International Center for Journalists)

We invite you to add your charity or supporting organizations' news stories and coming events to PVAngels so we can share them with the world. Do it now!