Story Hunter, a global community of video reporters, recently released a four-minute documentary on the threats Mexican reporters face in Veracruz, a state where 11 journalists have been killed in the last 18 months. The Gulf-state of Veracruz is considered one of the 10 most dangerous places in the world for journalists, according to Reporters Without Borders.
Manuel Monroy, police reporter, spoke in the documentary about the disappearance of three of his colleagues whose dismembered bodies were found in May 2012. "We don't know what comes next," Monroy said, who still works as a reporter although he is now always accompanied when he arrives at a crime scene, among other precautions.
"I think I'll keep working in this, I like it, it's my profession. It's a job that pays but I can't say it pays well," Monroy says at the end of the film.
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Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
