Who’s killing Mexico’s journalists?

2022 saw the highest number of Mexican journalists ever killed in a year. The murders of Lourdes Maldonado Lopez and Margarito Martínez last January sparked an outcry in a string of murders that have largely gone unsolved. We’re revisiting our episode with Mexican journalists about how safe they feel while covering the news there, why there are so many murders of journalists in Mexico, and what's being done to protect them.

In this episode: 

• León Krauze (@LeonKrauze), Univision Anchor
• Alejandra Guerra (@alisguerra8), Journalist in Tijuana, Mexico
• Rocío Galván (@RocioGalvanZ), Journalist in Tijuana, Mexico
• Andalusia Knoll Soloff (@Andalalucha), Journalist in Mexico City
• Natalie Southwick, Program Coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom)

Episode credits:

This episode was updated by Amy Walters with our host Malika Bilal. The original production team was Ney Alvarez, Priyanka Tilve, Ruby Zaman, Negin Owliaei, Amy Walters, Alexandra Locke, Tom Fenton, and Stacey Samuel. Special thanks to Lorena Arroyo and Inger Diaz Barriga.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our engagement producers are Andy Greiner and Adam Abou-Gad. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s Executive Producer and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.

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