Journalists jumping ship at Venezuela TV channel
An exodus of top journalists from Globovision appeared to dim all hope Thursday for preserving editorial independence at what had been Venezuela's last nationally broadcast opposition TV channel.
At least a dozen journalists quit this week, complaining of government censorship, after the channel's best-known on-air personality, Leopoldo Castillo, announced that his signature show, "Hello, Citizen," was being taken off the air.
Castillo was named a news director at Globovision in May when the station's sale was completed to businessmen friendly with the socialist heirs of the late President Hugo Chavez.
The sale was announced before the April 14 presidential election in which Chavez's hand-picked successor, Nicolas Maduro, defeated opposition leader Henrique Capriles by a razor-thin margin. The seller, Guillermo Zuloaga, said state harassment, including fines, had left him no other option.
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