During his eight years working in Veracruz, Rubén Espinosa, a freelance photojournalist associated with the agency Cuartoscuro, had made a specialty of covering social movements and the acts of violent repression those movements often encountered.
David Brooks: All of this fuels my general rule about covering protest movements, of whatever stripe.
"If in the past there were supporters or sympathizers or admiration, what happened in New York will turn it off," said Jamal Khashoggi, the managing editor of The Arab News in Jidda, who spent years covering Islamic movements.
That means the people covering these movements are often those who are sympathetic to them.
At age 28 she founded World Pulse –- an online action media network bringing women a global voice -– after working as a freelance journalist covering indigenous movements and ethnic cleansing in South America and Southeast Asia.
Demonstrations calling for justice for the killings were also held in Jalisco, Guerrero, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, and in the city of Xalapa, the Veracruz state capital where Espinosa worked covering social movements for eight years before he fled.
His parents were committed to social justice, Mary campaigning for issues such as the promotion of education for women, and Andrew advocating Federation and covering reformist movements as editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and later promoting them as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
"Arab media, long noted for their coverage of wars, news of death in Palestine, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Iraq, and their specialization in disseminating official pronouncements from their sources, are unaccustomed to covering popular movements and transmitting the voice of the street and their sons' daily tribulations," she said.
Trump has already bucked tradition this election cycle by not allowing his traveling press corps to fly with him to events or form a "protective pool" covering his movements whenever outside the home, similar to a system White House reporters use to track the president. .
