In newsrooms across Bangladesh, the word "Indigenous" has become too dangerous to put in print. Editors quietly strike it from the copy, wary that a single mention could invite the wrath of the state.

A generation of reporters-built careers on confidential sources, many now write without them.

Independent journalism no longer exists as a functioning practice inside Chechnya. What remains is a profession rebuilt in exile, forced to operate at a distance from the very place it is meant to cover.