
Journalism in Colombia: The stories that kill
Colombia ranks among the most dangerous countries in the world to work as a journalist, and this report from the news program Latin Pulse asks who is doing the silencing, and how. Correspondents working with Mark Shapiro of the Center for Investigative Reporting talk to reporters who keep publishing despite drug cartels, paramilitary groups, and corrupt officials who have killed colleagues for less. The central interview is with Hollman Morris, an award-winning journalist who describes being tailed by Colombia's secret police and denounced as a terrorist by the country's own president for his coverage of the armed conflict. Other journalists and family members of those killed describe threats, surveillance, and the calculation every story requires: is this fact worth dying for. Their stated goal is not just exposure but peace, giving voice to indigenous communities, war victims, and political opposition that the conflict has tried to erase. The film stays close to its subjects' daily working conditions rather than the broader politics of the drug war.