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The news is our connection to the world. Whether you wake up and listen to a podcast or grab a morning paper.

Journalists are responsible for the information you use

to form an accurate picture of the world.

It's an easy thing to take for granted, but as authoritarian populism surges

worldwide, journalism has become an increasingly dangerous profession, and populations are losing their access to the news they need.

Nowhere is this trend more dramatic than in Latin America, especially in our closest

neighbor Mexico, which has become one of the most dangerous places on

earth for reporting the news. I'm Gabriel Sierra and this is why it matters. Today

vanishing pressed freedom in Latin America and the global assault on the news.

What do you think as a healthy relationship between the government and journalism?

I mean because it sort of feels like there's this natural antagonism there, you know, like what, but when does it get unhealthy?

It gets unhealthy when we start to see people in high levels of government attack journalists verbally because if people

very high levels of government start criticizing the press calling into

question journalists and journalism.

What we find is that then that trickles down to other levels of government and it becomes the norm.

This is Karen Zissus, editor-in-chief of ASCOA online, the website of the America's Society and Council of the Americas.

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