Every 12 hours, a Mexican journalist is threatened. Decades of impunity in states rife with organized crime have made the country among the most dangerous for news media. And though Mexico’s government has an official system to protect journalists — known as the Mechanism — it doesn’t go far enough.

RESPONSIBILITIES

In addition to illustrating the story, I also designed and programmed the page.

I used responsive web design to tailor the presentation so that it works well on a phone or a larger desktop monitor. The comics load significantly faster than videos, which is critical in VOA markets with limited bandwidth.

  • Video clip
  • Simple CSS animations as the reader scrolls
  • Portraits of the XX journalists murdered between X-Z
  • Interactive graphic showing their bios and showing trends.

I modified a storyboard tool I built using Google Sheets to help simplify the translation process.