Dom Phillips: editors around world urge Bolsonaro to do more to find missing journalist

Media organisations call on Brazil's president to step up efforts to find Phillips and indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira

Editors and journalists from some of the world's biggest news organisations have written to the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, to ask that he urgently step up and fully resource the effort" to find missing British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira.

Led by the Guardian and the Washington Post, two newspapers for whom Phillips worked as a freelance correspondent, editors from at least 20 major media and press freedom organisations signed the open letter that was published on Thursday.