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Crusading Mexican Journalist Murdered in Tijuana

NPR | By Madeleine Brand

Published June 23, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Sandra Dibble of The San Diego Tribune about Tuesday's murder of journalist Francisco Ortiz Franco in the sprawling border city of Tijuana, Mexico. Ortiz Franco was a founding editor of Zeta, a weekly magazine known for investigating drug trafficking and corruption.

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Madeleine Brand

Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).