Reportero: documentary on journalist’s life in one of the world’s deadliest places for news

A powerful documentary film about the risks for journalists operating in Mexico.

via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/01/09/reportero-notable-documentary.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

For a limited time at PBS.org, you can watch the full-length version of “Reportero,” an incredible documentary film about Jesús Blancornelas and Héctor Félix Miranda’s long-running Mexican newsweekly, Zeta. The environment in Baja California is so hostile — it is certainly one of the most dangerous places in the world for reporters — that the paper is printed across the border in Southern California to ensure its survival, and that of the people who run it