''Ríodoce'' is a Mexican weekly dedicated to coverage of organized crime and the
Mexican drug war in
Sinaloa, Mexico. The newspaper is based in
Culiacán
Culiacán, officially Culiacán Rosales, is a city in northwestern Mexico, the capital and largest city of both the Culiacán Municipality and the state of Sinaloa. The city was founded on 29 September 1531, by the Spanish conquerors Lázar ...
.
History
The paper was founded in 2003 by a group of reporters from the daily ''
Noroeste'', including
Javier Valdez Cárdenas.
In September 2009, ''Ríodoce'' published a series on drug trafficking entitled "Hitman: Confession of an Assassin in Ciudad Juárez." One morning a few days after the conclusion of the series, a grenade was thrown into ''Ríodoces office, damaging the building but causing no injuries. The attackers were never identified.
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In 2011, co-founder Valdez Cárdenas was awarded the International Press Freedom Award of the ]Committee to Protect Journalists
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, "an annual recognition of courageous journalism". Later in the same year, the trustees of Columbia University
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awarded ''Ríodoce'' the Maria Moors Cabot Prize
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for journalism that contributes to "inter-American understanding". In 2013, PEN International
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gave ''Ríodoce'' the "Excellence in Journalism" award.
On May 15, 2017
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, ''Riodoce'' reporter Javier Valdez Cárdenas was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen. He was the sixth Mexican journalist killed in 2017.
See also
* List of newspapers in Mexico
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People
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Organizations
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References
External links
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Alone, 'Riodoce' Covers the Mexican Drug Cartel Beat
April 26, 2012
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Maria Moors Cabot Prize winners
Newspapers published in Mexico
Mass media in Culiacán