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In 2012 Mexican journalist Regina Martinez was murdered in her home. She had been reporting on the links between drug cartels, public officials and thousands of individuals who had mysteriously disappeared. Eight years later, her investigations were published simultaneously around the world as The Cartel Project.
Forbidden Stories, a nonprofit newsroom created by Laurent Richard during his year as a Knight- Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, organized the project, secretly bringing together an international network of journalists dedicated to continuing the work of Martinez. Sixty reporters from 18 countries, followed her leads to expose a global network of Mexican drug cartels and their political connections around the world.
Laurent Richard. Laurent Richard is a French award-winning documentary filmmaker and producer. Richard has directed investigative documentaries for 20 years, and co-founded the French investigative television program Cash Investigation. Richard has reported from Iraq several times and has done investigations into the corporate sector, such as Big Tobacco or the pharmaceutical sector. His documentary My President Is on a Business Trip was awarded the best investigative documentary of 2016 at the FIGRA. Richard was a 2017 Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan and in 2018 was named European Journalist of the Year by the Prix Europa in Berlin.
Richard founded Forbidden Stories, a network of investigative journalists devoted to keeping stories alive. This consortium of journalists is continuing the work of threatened, jailed, and assassinated journalists with the collaboration of more than 30 news organizations, including Le Monde, The New York Times, and The Guardian. The
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Daphneâs sons worried about her. She was fifty-three and lived in an old stone farmhouse on the edge of Bidnija, a hilltop hamlet on the island of Malta. From the dining-room table, where Daphne wrote, she could see the morning sunlight glisten on the Mediterranean. But she hadnât been to the beach in four years. When she left the house, people spat at her, followed her, photographed her, and hurled insults and abuse. Once, when she was taking an afternoon walk in a nearby village, a former mayor gathered a mob and began chasing her. She took refuge in a monastery, where the villagers pounded on the heavy wooden doors. All over the island, there were people who were certain that they hated her but had never read a word she had written. They simply knew her as
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