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Robert Mahoney

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Stop killing messenger

Published On: November 4, 2018 12:15 AM NPT By: Robert Mahoney

NEW YORK – What does it cost to silence a muckraking reporter? In the Philippines, officials needed just $250 in 2011 to buy the services of a journalist-slaying gunman. In Slovakia, Ján Kuciak and his fiancée were killed in February for about $80,000.