(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ news advisory: DANGEROUS ASSIGNMENT: INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN COLOMBIA Colombia’s Top Investigative Reporter Tells For the First Time Why He Fled The Country Special Report on CPJ’s Web Site New York, June 16, 2000 – For the first time since he left his country, Colombia’s top investigative journalist, Ignácio […]
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ news advisory:
DANGEROUS ASSIGNMENT: INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN COLOMBIA
Colombia’s Top Investigative Reporter Tells For the First Time Why He Fled The Country
Special Report on CPJ’s Web Site
New York, June 16, 2000 – For the first time since he left his country, Colombia’s top investigative journalist, Ignácio Gomez, tells why he had to flee.
In a CPJ “Dangerous Assignments” report, Gomez, head of the investigative unit of the Bogotá daily, “El Espectador,” talks about the circumstances and threats that forced him to flee to the United States, after his colleague Jineth Bedoya, was brutally beaten in resprisal for her reporting.
The article, by CPJ Washington Representative Frank Smyth, is available at
www.cpj.org.
