Here's how it works: you suggest a story to be investigated on the GFM website, and donate personally or together with others until you have the necessary funds to effectively have the company find and hire a journalist for you to and I'm quoting from the website here—"go to briefings, press conferences, request interviews or door stop reluctant interviewees on your behalf".
So yeah, @mercnews, let me, a journalist, fix that for you: "Manuel Wins Historic Swimming Gold".
(There may be a fuller explanation in the report itself, but it's behind a paywall; they have an exemption for journalists but you have to send in an application. They haven't gotten back to me yet, blah blah blah).
Dario Ramirez, the director of Article 19 — who had his computer and personal documents stolen from him when unknown agents raided his house on March 16, the day before the organization presented their annual report on violence against journalists in Mexico — stated that it's difficult to improve the situation for journalists when you can't confide in the government.
And as for you journalists who don't accept our official law enforcement terminology -- freeze!
"Everything is easy for you journalists, isn't it?" he said.
Especially if other journalists have done favors for you.
As in, everything I do, I do for you, journalists in the nosebleed seats.
That's why having long-term relationships with journalists matters and why having people close to the journalist who can vouch for you.
