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Good Practice Programme, Mexico Freelancers in Mexico - Findings and Challenges The Rory Peck Trust has launched a report Freelancers in Mexico – Findings and Challenges, the first ever investigation into the situation for freelancers in Mexico. “Mexico’s tenuous democracy is in dire need of objective and critical journalism, but the country has been unable to provide an environment where independent journalists can do their job without fearing for their personal integrity or even their lives”, says Pedro Enrique Armendares, Executive Director of the Centre of Investigative Journalists, Mexico. In the last decade, attacks on the press in Mexico have spiralled, making today’s Mexico the most dangerous country for media workers in Latin America. Freelance journalists struggle to provide objective reporting on crime, conflict and corruption in their communities, but often bear the brunt of violent reprisals against the media. Threats can come from all sides - the police, the military, drug traffickers, organised criminals, corrupt officials. This increasing violence is effectively censoring freelancers from telling the stories their fellow Mexicans, and the rest of the world, desperately need to hear. Although the situation in Mexico is particularly serious, there are many countries in which freelance journalists are under threat. Anywhere freelancers are attacked, freedom of expression is stifled. To download the full report as a pdf, click here No article or photograph may be reproduced from this publication without authorisation and full credit must be given to The Rory Peck Trust. For information about the Good Practice Programme- Mexico, please contact: In London:
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