Hand-in-hand: How Mexican journalists are partnering with civil society to combat impunity
by Jacqueline Strzemp
Jun 06 in Investigative Journalism
In a country like Mexico — which Reporters without Borders considers one of the most dangerous countries for media — journalists face corruption and impunity nearly everywhere they turn, from misused public funding on large-scale social projects to a broken justice system that limits the ability for crimes to be investigated.
Today, many in the country are working to address these challenges. This includes journalists, who dedicate their work to keeping the public informed. To more effectively combat these issues, however, they may need to tap into their civil society peers, who utilize different approaches and networks to address the same problems.
This is the mission of the Border Hub, a USAID-funded project run by the International Center for Journalists, in partnership with the Border Center for Journalists and Bloggers and Iniciativa Sinaloa.
The program organized panels in three U.S.-Mexico border cities — Tijuana, Juarez and Saltillo — to discuss partnership models for journalists and civil society organizations (CSOs). Here are some tips from the panelists on how best to work together to demand accountability:
Read more at: https://ijnet.org/en/story/hand-hand-how-mexican-journalists-are-partnering-civil-society-combat-impunity
So far, journalists are targeted with impunity, civil society there at least, is a mess though, their economy continues to do relatively well as they attract a lot of foreign investment, Germany, USA and so on.
