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Press freedom
After years in exile for covering the José Rubén Zamora case, journalists still fear returning home

Journalists who fled Guatemala after being targeted for covering their former boss’s trial can now return following court rulings. But they worry the forces that drove them into exile are still in place.

Composite image featuring two separate photographs of Mexican journalist Nadia Altamirano: one interviewing a man while holding a microphone and another working at a stationery store.
Job market
When journalism stopped paying, this reporter found another way to tell stories — at her family’s stationery store

The crisis facing Oaxaca’s local media forced Mexican journalist Nadia Altamirano to juggle as many as five news jobs. Now she is putting those skills to work at the family business.

Media sustainability
In Brazil’s election, small newsrooms bet on the local view

With smaller staffs and budgets, local outlets are leaning into their community ties to find stories national newsrooms can’t easily see.

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Ibero-American Colloquium
Leading Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui to headline 2026 Ibero-American Journalism Colloquium

The award-winning journalist will deliver the keynote address at the Colloquium, which will take place on Sept. 19 at The University of Texas at Austin after the International Symposium on Journalism (ISOJ).