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Brazil - Third journalist's murder confirms disastrous start to year for Brazilian media

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Reporters without borders

Paulo Roberto Cardoso Rodrigues, a journalist based in Ponta Porã, in the southwestern state of Mato Grosso do Sul, died yesterday from the gunshot injuries he received the previous day, when two individuals on a motorcycle fired a total of 12 shots at him, hitting him five times, as he was driving his car in the town. Also known as Paulo Rocaro, Rodrigues, 51, edited a local daily, Jornal da Praça, and the Mercosul News website. Coming just three days after online journalist Mário Randolfo (...)

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