Journalists are often not recognized, and when they are, it takes years to build the kind of audience that truly gets the story out there.

Journalists do not get attention from their stories, but more importantly the stories are not getting attention. The world is critical and cruel, and in most cases, those are the hard truths journalists tell, and the truths society does not want to hear.

Stories like the genocide in Gaza, Hurricane Melissa across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica and the rise in drug gangs in Rio. Yes, most of these stories are being published and headlined, but those who are writing the story are not accounted for. Journalists risk their lives to not only get an important story told, but they also to an extent experience these traumatic events firsthand. Many journalists are killed while writing these stories. Journalists give voice to the victims of traumatic events, holding power and wrongs accountable and educating the public on important and real word issues.

The genocide in Gaza has been a reoccurring topic journalists report on. It should not be like this. Yes, educating the world on the bad is very needed, but these journalists are risking their lives for other stories to be told, and they get absolutely no credit. As of October 29,2025, according to UN News, 256 journalists have been killed since the beginning of the war on October 7th, 2023. No media deaths have been announced on journalists reporting on Hurricane Melissa, but according to The Guardian, many reporters had to take cover and were impacted by Hurricane Melissa.

Journalists reporting face to face with the drug gangs in Rio could cause them physical harm, maybe not death because of authority being around but still harmed. Many journalists, and even more the authority can barely even get information about these drug gangs without possibly being hurt because of the regulations the gangs hold, given that the warehouses and controlled territories are hard to find.

Journalists go to lengths to get stories told that they themselves are still learning along the way.