For Media Outlets, Blackmail and Corruption Is an Ongoing Problem in Mexico Michel Marizco - Fronteras Desk
go to original March 23, 2016

Luis Medina is co-owner of the news radio program Proyecto Puente (Michel Marizco)

Mexico remains one of the deadliest and most corrupted countries in the world for reporters to do their job. But what happens when a former journalist is accused of targeting his old colleagues?

Luis Medina is animated, almost yelling into his microphone as he encourages people to call into his radio station with their problems and issues.

He is deejaying live in the city of Hermosillo, the capital of the U.S. border state of Sonora. He’s co-owner of the news radio program Proyecto Puente. He bills it as a new kind of journalism for this northern Mexico state.

He relies on listeners to reach him through Twitter, WhatsApp and Facebook with their complaints about the government, crime and social issues — from schools to taxes.

"I think that for Sonora, we create a different kind of journalist. So we started this six years ago, and I created Proyecto Puente," he said.

It’s a new kind of journalism but it ran into an old problem here in Mexico: blackmail and corruption.

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