Breathing New Life Into a Murdered Journalist’s Work
In October 2017, the Maltese blogger and investigative reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia needed to go to the bank. Her account had been blocked after a government minister filed a defamation charge against her. She left her house, got into her car—a Peugeot 108—and set off. Three minutes later, she was dead. The cause? A car bomb, lodged under the driver’s seat.
Two weeks later, the French journalist Laurent Richard launched his project “Forbidden Stories” at the Newseum in Washington, DC. Richard had developed the idea—an encrypted platform allowing endangered journalists to upload their work—as a Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan one year earlier. Its intended purpose was twofold: to deter would-be attacks on journalists by backing up their work, and to publicize murders and disappearances of colleagues such as Caruana Galizia.
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