New digital map tracks attacks on journalists and bloggers in Mexico

This article was suggested by taquista Linda Cuellar. 

By Jorge Luis Sierra, icfj

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 theInternational 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.

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