From WNYKINYC in New York, this is on the media.

Brooke Gladstone is out this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

In the last five years, 66 Mexican journalists have been killed, and another 12 have disappeared,

making that country one of the most dangerous places in the world to report.

This is, of course, mainly the

toll of drug violence, which endangers reporters and every other part of Mexican society. Many,

many reporters and papers are abandoning coverage of the violence for fear that they will be caught up

in it. Those are the findings of a recent study by MEPI,

an investigative journalism project based in Mexico City,

a project which has for the first time quantified

just how small a percentage of Mexico's regional papers

is reporting on drug violence.

Anna Arana is a reporter who directs the project.

Anna, welcome to On the Media.

Thank you.

Why did you undertake this study?

Well, we had always heard of reporters who were called and told, don't write this or

will kill you.

One case that I had heard was in one town, one of the local drug gang

leaders coming up and forcing the editor to bring down the front page so he could red pencil

what stories should go on and which ones shouldn't. People were saying, you know, we're getting

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