The Guardian to launch new investigative podcast series honouring former Mixmag editor Dom Phillips

Dom Phillips will be the focus of a new investigative podcast series by The Guardian.

Missing in the Amazon is the culmination of a three-year investigation by The Guardian's Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips, who was part of the 10-day search for the journalist and former Mixmag editor after he vanished alongside Brazilian indigenous rights activist Bruno Pereira in 2022.

The podcast will launch on June 5, marking the third anniversary of Phillips and Pereira's murders, and will focus on the work of the two men and the events that led to their deaths, as told by those closest to them.

“When discussing the case, everybody talked about the British journalist and the Brazilian Indigenous expert, but I don’t know if we ever really found out so much about who these men were,” Tom Philips says.

“I don’t think we ever heard so much from the people who loved them, cared about them and respected them – about who they were, where they came from, why they were doing what they were doing, and that’s something that we’ve tried to make a big part of the podcast.”

On Tuesday (May 27), Dom Phillips' book How to Save the Amazon was officially published, which offers solutions to protecting the Amazon Rainforest through the lens of indigenous communities.

The book was halfway complete at the time of Phillips' death and later finished with the help of a number of close friends and his widow, Alessandra Sampaio.

Missing in the Amazon will launch via The Guardian on June 5, you can buy Dom Phillips' book How to Save the Amazon, here.

[Via: The Guardian]

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