The Killing of a Journalist
Documentary • Crime


Premiere Release (US)
~ "An attack on a journalist is an attack on us all!" ~
Overview:
A young investigative journalist and his fiancée are brutally murdered in their home in Slovakia. Their deaths inspire the biggest protests in Slovakia since the fall of communism. The story takes an unexpected turn when a source leaks the secret murder case file to the murdered journalist’s colleagues. It includes the computers and encrypted communications of the assassination’s alleged mastermind, a businessman closely connected to the country’s ruling party. Trawling these encrypted messages, journalists discover that their country has been captured by corrupt oligarchs, judges, and law enforcement officials. A reckoning awaits.
Director:
Matt Sarnecki
Status:
Released
Language:
Slovak
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Key words:
- corruption
- politics
- journalism
- protest
- press freedom
- political corruption
- investigative journalism
- investigative journalist
- slovakia
- central europe
- freedom of the press
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