New Digital Map Tracks Attacks on Mexican Journalists and Bloggers Jorge Luis Sierra - International Center for Journalists
go to original October 28, 2013

In Mexico, where more than 80 journalists have been killed since 2005, many assaults, beatings, threats, disappearances and abductions go unreported because victims and their families fear retribution.

We need a safe way to report these attacks and to show the effect of violence on freedom of expression in Mexico. That’s why Freedom House and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) are launching a new map to track attacks against journalists, Twitter and Facebook users, bloggers and citizens who use social media to report crime and corruption.

I am coordinating the map, called “Periodistas en Riesgo” (“Journalists at Risk”) as part of my ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellowship. In my previous fellowship with ICFJ, I developed Mi Panamá Transparente, a map tracking crime and corruption based on reports from citizens and journalists.

This new map is Latin America’s first digital crowdsourcing platform related to freedom of expression. Based on the open source platform called Crowdmap, which was developed by the group Ushahidi, the map allows users to send their reports anonymously, without using their name or real email address. All information that reaches the map is checked by an editor and reviewed for credibility and reliability.

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