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Brittany Crocker

Stories By Brittany Crocker
Slideshow: Argentina's World Cup Riots
By  • 21 July 2014
[caption id="attachment_2978" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Tear gas settles after a riot at the Obelisco monument in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After the crowd fled, many people were separated from their families. A boy returned to the riot…
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Mexican magazine does 'suicide journalism'
By  • 30 June 2014
ZETA’s offices are easy to miss. Since Jesús Blancornelas founded the Mexican magazine with Francisco Ortiz Franco and political columnist Hector Felix Miranda, [caption id="attachment_2881" align="alignright" width="214"] Zeta magazine's Adela Navarro, Courtesy of the Missouri…
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Editor of newspaper targeted by cartels beaten in Mexico’s Sinaloa
By  • 8 April 2014
The editor of a Mexican newspaper targeted for its reporting on drug cartels and corruption was beaten, shot and robbed in Mexico’s Sinaloa state. Adrián López Ortiz the general director of a media group that…
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Brazilian journalist in coma after explosive attack
By  • 2 February 2014
A video journalist is in a coma after becoming injured at a protest in Rio de Janeiro where he was hit with an explosive device. Ilídio Andrade, cameraman for the television network Bandeirantes was filming…
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Environmental and health issues in the Zambian copper belt
By  • 22 November 2013
Self-regulated Mopani mines have come under scrutiny by non-governmental organizations and the World Health Organization for releasing harmful particles into the atmosphere through copper extraction processes called heap and situ leaching. The particles react with…
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The government shutdown explained
By  • 24 October 2013
A confrontation over budget led to a partial shutdown of the U.S. government from Oct. 1 to 16, exposing significant political divisions. Ten days after the Congress decided to end the shutdown, public opinion polls…
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Liberian journalist after his health deteriorated in prison
By  • 16 October 2013
Liberia’s Ministry of Justice has granted a journalist imprisoned since August a 30-day “compassionate release” after the journalist’s health had deteriorated in prison. Rodney Sieh, the publisher of FrontPage Africa, was jailed for not paying…
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Seven journalists attacked in Cambodia
By  • 2 October 2013
Uniformed police and men in surgical masks attacked seven journalists while they were covering a protest in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. The protest near a Buddhist shrine was about government evictions of an entire…
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Gunmen burned down community radio station
By  • 17 September 2013
Two masked gunmen destroyed a South African community radio station in an arson attack on the night of Sept. 10. The two assailants entered the offices during a show, stole the host’s and guests’ mobile…
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Chadian court gives journalist suspended jail term
By  • 3 September 2013
A Chadian journalist got a two-year suspended prison sentence and was ordered to pay a fine for challenging his country’s regime. Behind bars since May 7, Avenir Moussey De la Tchire, the managing editor of…
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