A little more than a month after the departure of President Pedro Castillo, the Peruvian press has experienced more than 70 cases of aggressions including beatings, insults and vandalism of equipment and facilities by demonstrators, as well as threats, obstruction of coverage and even an attack with rubber bullets by police officers.
The latest report "Journalism, Media and Technology: Trends and Predictions for 2023," published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, sheds light on what the news industry can expect in 2023. Concerns about the sustainability of some news outlets are on the rise, as are the challenges to innovate.
In journalism, participation and collaboration are essential. LatAm Journalism Review (LJR) has created a list of the most important events for journalists in Latin America to be held during 2023. Buenos Aires, Bogota, Quito, and Mexico City, are some of the expected venues.
InfoAmazonia, a trilingual platform devoted to covering the Amazon Rainforest, has launched a Citizen Network of news outlets based in the Brazilian Amazon that cover socio-environmental issues. The idea is to strengthen local journalism in the region and expand media audiences, improving the content and bringing it in and around the Amazon to local populations and a global audience.
🖋️🇧🇷The national secretary of Justice, @augustodeAB, told LJR that the National Observatory of Violence against Journalists, recently created by the Brazilian government, will seek to ensure that cases are investigated.
https://latamjournalismreview.org/articles/brazilian-government-responds-to-demands-from-press-freedom-organizations-and-creates-the-national-observatory-on-violence-against-journalists/
Brazil: ICFJ and Meta launch new edition of digital business acceleration program https://latamjournalismreview.org/news/brazil-icfj-and-meta-launch-new-edition-of-digital-business-acceleration-program/ #journalism #journalists #Brazil
#Image2Text, an image recognition API 🔎 developed by journalists from #Argentina 🇦🇷, the #Philippines 🇵🇭 and #Paraguay 🇵🇾, seeks to make artificial intelligence 🤖 more diverse by training its algorithm within the context of the Global South.
https://latamjournalismreview.org/articles/journalists-from-argentina-paraguay-and-the-philippines-develop-image-recognition-model-to-make-artificial-intelligence-more-inclusive/
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