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Academic Research
For Latin America’s journalism students, news starts on Instagram

Researchers found students in nine Latin American countries get most of their news on social media and only dive deeper selectively — a pattern they say poses challenges for training the journalists of the future.

Violence Against Journalists
‘We wish our pain had a statute of limitations’: Daughter of slain Peruvian journalist condemns annulled conviction in father’s murder

Peru’s Constitutional Court voided the conviction of a former military officer in the 1988 murder of journalist Hugo Bustíos, ruling that the statute of limitations had expired under a new law.

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Violence Against Journalists
He survived the attack that killed his friend. Now his tribute is up for an Oscar

Wounded in the attack that killed Brent Renaud in Ukraine, Colombian American photographer Juan Arredondo speaks with LJR about grief, mental health and the documentary honoring slain journalists.

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Press Freedom
Venezuela has freed jailed journalists, but some say the amnesty serves the regime

After three months in prison, journalism student Omario Castellanos was released along with dozens of other journalists. Activists say Venezuela’s new amnesty law buries evidence of repression instead of addressing it.