Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
Nigerian rape report leads to threats
By  • 3 November 2015
A Nigerian radio journalist has been threatened after reporting on an alleged rape case at a boy’s school in Kano, the Nigeria's second-largest city. Nasir Salisu Zango reported that three men visited his house early…
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Colombian journalists fear paramilitary 'blacklists'
By  • 15 December 2014
Colombian journalists met on Dec. 11 in the capital city of Bogota to publicize threats they have received from a right-wing paramilitary group called Bloque Capital - Águilas Negras [Capital Block - Black Eagles]. The…
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Venezuelan journalists threatened for covering prison clash
By  • 2 December 2014
Members of Venezuela's Bolivarian National Guard threatened to kill two photojournalists and a cameraman as they covered demonstrations at a prison where inmates had gone on a hunger strike to protest conditions. The demonstration took…
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Project Exile: Mexican journalist fled amidst kidnapping probe
By  • 4 November 2014
'After I left Mexico my parents kept receiving letters for six months just to remind me to be quiet.' Verónica Basurto first became interested in journalism at age 12. She recalls combing through the financial…
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Colombian journalist flees after gunshots fired at house
By  • 9 September 2014
A Colombian investigative reporter fled her home in the northern city of Barrancas in La Guajira state after gunshots were fired at the house in the early morning hours of Sept. 3. Amalfi Rosales, who…
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Journalists probing Russian troop deaths threatened
By  • 1 September 2014
Russian journalists have told international news outlets that they were attacked while investigating the secret burials of Russian paratroopers killed in the conflict in Ukraine. Vladimir Romensky, of the independent Russian television station Dozhd, and…
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