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Where journalists still get respect

PANAMA CITY, July 21, 1999 — Investigative reporter Gustavo Gorriti, an ICIJ member and associate director of La Prensa in Panama, published the following op-ed in The New York Times, July 21, 1998. It is reprinted here with permission. From afar, the recent spate of journalistic embarrassments in the United States suggests that something more […]

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