Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism

Environmental journalists under threat

6 September 2019
A photo of a shrine to the slain Indian journalist Jagendra Singh. (Credit: Forbidden Stories)

Covering the environment is a surprisingly dangerous beat for journalists around the world. Over the last decade, as many as 29 reporters have been killed for their work on environmental stories.

On this edition of Global Journalist, the story of an Indian journalist burned to death for reporting on illegal mining and a Guatemalan journalist forced into hiding for covering pollution protests. Plus: how a group of international investigators are trying to follow environmental stories too dangerous for the local press to report.

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Producer: Edom Kassaye

Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism.
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