This network supports Mexican freelancers facing insecurity and violence | International Journalists’ Network

In May 2017, a group of around 100 armed individuals robbed seven journalists in the Mexican state of Guerrero, making off with their cameras, cell phones, computers, money and car. No longer able to carry out the reporting they had traveled to the region for, and with no story as a result, the freelance journalists lost out on the revenue they may have earned from media outlets. Following the robbery, journalist Andalusia Knoll Soloff founded Frontline Freelance Mexico (FFM) in an effort to better organize freelance reporters in the country and defend their rights. Inspired by the international organization Frontline Freelance Register, FFM today has 250 members comprising journalists, documentary filmmakers, fixers, cartoonists, radio professionals, editors, designers and sound engineers.

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