“I didn’t feel much when the Slovak prime minister
resigned soon afterwards. My job is to provide information, not to take down
politicians. Journalism is facing a kind of crisis around the world. But maybe
soon we will hit the bottom, and then we can come up with a better kind of
journalism for the 21st century.”
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| Jan Kuciak & Martina Kušnírová |
—Pavla Holcová, Czech
journalist, whose 28-year-old co-worker, Jan Kuciak, and his fiancée were killed
while working on a story linking the Slovak prime minister and the Italian
mafia. More than 30 journalists, including Kuciak and the Washington Post’s
Jamal Khashoggi, were murdered in 2018. “‘Killed for speaking the truth’: nine journalists murdered in 2018,” The Guardian, Dec. 5, 2018.
• Editorial Comment: RIP. #All for Jan and Martina.
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