When Cam Newton, one of the biggest names in the NFL, said, “It’s funny to hear a female talk about routes; like, it’s funny” while responding to a question from Carolina Panthers beat reporter Jourdan Rodrigue of … Read more
Read in English. -¿Te sorprende que el gobierno mexicano los espía? A la pregunta del corresponsal extranjero sobre el último escándalo del gobierno mexicano mi respuesta no fue exagerada: -No. Eso siempre lo hemos sabido. Desde hace … Read more
Translated from the Spanish by Patrick Timmons of the Mexican Journalism Translation Project. Leer en español. “Is it a surprise that the Mexican government spies on you?” I did not exaggerate when I responded to the … Read more
I had increasingly intense visions of harming my wife. That’s not quite right. I had been having off-and-on images of violent events for years—seeing myself raped in prison or impaled during car crashes—and they finally became visions of hurting my … Read more
(Translated from the Spanish by Dick Cluster. Leer en español.) In some parts of Mexico, the majority of reporters have been silenced by means of torture. I first learned about this by reading the … Read more
Read in English. Existen zonas de México donde la mayoría de los reporteros han sido silenciados a base de torturas. La primera vez que me enteré de ese dato fue leyendo reportes de organizaciones dedicadas a la … Read more
An “AP Explains” piece illustrates just how difficult it is to get racial nuance right in the Trump era, even when journalists set out to bring much needed context to maybe the most vexing issue we face. The first clue … Read more
Read in English. Es extraño cómo mi vida y la de muchos periodistas mexicanos ha sido trastocada desde que en nuestro país comenzó la mal llamada “guerra contra las drogas”, y desde que se dispararon los asesinatos, … Read more
Translated by Dick Cluster. Leer en español. It’s strange how severely shaken my way of life and that of many Mexican journalists has been since the declaration of the poorly named “war on drugs” in … Read more
Donald Trump and the GOP may lack a coherent governing agenda, but they have no doubt about their electoral strategy: Run against the media. The campaign against the media is not simply a reflection of the president’s notoriously thin skin … Read more
