Daphne's message lives on

Superhuman. Thoughtful. Hated being bullied. Bold, but shy. A great present-giver. That’s how Matthew Caruana Galizia describes his mother.

Investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia is widely known for probing the activities of Malta’s ruling elite and her death in October 2017 after a car bomb planted on her vehicle exploded outside of her home. She was 53 and the most famous journalist in Malta.

To her children she was an energetic and thoughtful mother. “She would be working on these major corruption stories, but at the same time, for example, in May 2017, a few months before her murder, she was planning my brother’s wedding, which was a huge operation with hundreds of guests,” Matthew says in a recent interview with Fraud Magazine.

To the Maltese citizens, she was a tireless champion for the fight against government corruption. “You can kill the messenger, but not the message,” said investigative journalist, Bastian Oberymayer, of his friend in a 2019 interview with Fraud Magazine. According to the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, her blog, “Running Commentary,” still regularly attracts more views than the combined circulation of all of Malta’s newspapers.