**Correction to IFEX alert of 16 June 2000** (CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ correction to alert: 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 – Colombia’s top investigative journalist, Ignacio […]
**Correction to IFEX alert of 16 June 2000**
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ correction to alert:
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 – Colombia’s top investigative journalist, Ignacio Gomez, tells why he had to flee his country in a new 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 reprisal for her reporting.
The article, by CPJ Washington Representative Frank Smyth, is available at www.cpj.org.
