Requiem for a journalist

Yesterday, I received an email from Lise Olsen, an investigative reporter at the Houston Chronicle [via the GIJN’s listserv]. In it, she implored the global community of investigative reporters to take action following news that one of our own was murdered in Mexico.

An excerpt:

“So it is really important for us AS A COMMUNITY OF INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS to react strongly to the news this week of an assasination of a young online editor in Mexico [Jaime Guadalupe González Domínguez] – who lived minutes from America – and of yet another armed attack on El Siglo de Torreon, one of the most important and few remaining strong voices for press freedom in Northeast Mexico, which has been devasted by violence.”

Every time I tweet news like this, I say “It could happen to any of us.” Really, what I’m thinking is it could happen to me. And I know others are thinking the same thing.