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...more fortunate sons, working as a photojournalist at a local paper called the Freeman. It was an impossibly glamorous job by the standards of the slum, but also a dangerous one. When he was gunned down last November, at the age of 30, Dizon became the fifth Filipino journalist to be killed that month, and one of 15 murdered around the country...
...Dizon's own story may not be, as it first seems, one of a crusading journalist whose commitment to exposing uncomfortable truths cost him his life. He was an ordinary, hard-up man, who had to support four children from two marriages on a salary of just $110 a month. One way of earning extra money at the Freeman was to go after exclusives. "You get a bonus for exclusive photos," explains Mercado. For Dizon, the most prolific source of these was Lorega, where he knew how to track down local methamphetamine pushers and illegal gambling operators. According...
...With more than 60 of its journalists killed since 1986 (the year that dictator Ferdinand Marcos was ousted and a free press restored), the Philippines is no ordinary place to practice journalism. In fact, after Iraq, it is the second deadliest country in the world for journalists. It's a sign of just how treacherous the profession has become that fledgling reporters are routinely given a booklet titled Staying Alive, published by a nonprofit group called the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists. It contains helpful hints such as, "Vary your regular routes and routines so that it is harder...
...standard pay scales. But as the case of Allan Dizon illustrates, no place is immune from the murky interplay of poverty and crime that pervades many areas of Philippine society. Things are especially bad in the cattle towns and fetid jungle outposts, where the cowboys of publishing rule. Many journalists at small rural papers don't receive a salary, but are instead paid piecemeal, earning a few dollars per story ($10 is roughly the going rate for a front-page exclusive at a provincial daily). To make ends meet, some take on public relations work or sell advertising, placing them...
...still have the hearts of animals," says Dusabe Theoneste, 41, a farmer who lost much of his family during the genocide. "They haven't changed from when they were taken to prison." But Ntirushwamaboko's case shows how the gacaca system could help heal Rwanda. As he accompanies a journalist into the house of Febronia Mukamusoni, the sister of the man he admits to killing, Ntirushwamaboko is greeted with a smile. "Five years ago, if I saw him and I had the means, I would have killed him," says Mukamusoni, 47. But after hearing him testify during the gacaca court...