Why independent journalism is dying in the Dominican Republic

I knew early on that journalism was a main interest of mine. So, I decided to take a three-month internship at HOY newspaper, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (DR).

I didn’t think much of it, I wasn’t sure what the internship would entail, but to my surprise, the editor who hired me encouraged me to actually write. She granted me access to state documents and told me to write stories about what I found. I was elated.

Week after week I would turn in stories, a lot of which contained what I thought was pretty jaw-dropping information that I strongly believed should somehow make its way to the Dominican public.