@article {323196,
	title = {Informally governing information: how criminal rivalry leads to violence against the press in Mexico},
	journal = {Journal of Conflict Resolution},
	volume = {61},
	number = {5},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {1095-1119},
	abstract = {
	A well-functioning press is crucial for sustaining a healthy democracy. While attacks onjournalists occur regularly in many developing countries, previous work has largelyignored where and why journalists are attacked. Focusing on violence by criminalorganizations (COs) in Mexico, we offer the first systematic, micro-level analysis of theconditions under which journalists are more likely to be violently targeted. Contraryto popular belief, our evidence reveals that the presence of large, profitable COs doesnot necessarily lead to fatal attacks against the press. Rather, the likelihood of journalistsbeing killed only increases when rival criminal groups inhabit territories. Rivalryinhibits COs{\textquoteright} ability to control information leaks to the press, instead creatingincentives for such leaks to be used as weapons to intensify official enforcementoperations against rivals. Without the capacity to informally govern press content,rival criminals affected by such press coverage are more likely to target journalists.

},
	url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022002715600756},
	author = {V. R{\'\i}os and B. Holland}
}
