15 of the most read, shared, liked and reTweeted posts from the Journalism in the Americas blog in 2015

• By Teresa Mioli
• December 16, 2015

As 2015 comes to a close, the team at the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas created a list of the Journalism in the Americas blog's most popular posts from the past year.

The most widely read, shared and liked stories included conversations and lessons from journalists working in the region, updates on media concentration and ownership, issues of violence against journalists in the region, challenges with cyber security and new digital media projects.

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• Three Latin American countries among deadliest for journalists in 2014 (January)
• Sale of Ecuador’s El Comercio marks a turning point for country’s media and raises concerns (January)
• Five years after earthquake, Haiti’s journalists show resilience amid threats to freedom of the press (January)
• 2014 was the “worst year” for freedom of expression in Venezuela, says Espacio Público (February)
• DDoS attacks are a growing digital threat to freedom of expression in Latin America (June)
• Venezuelan journalist says police beat and humiliate her, forced her to take off her clothes (June)
• Media coverage of lynching in Brazil stir debate about sensationalization of violence (July)
• Violence against Mexican journalists now concentrated in the southern states, with Veracruz in the spotlight (July)
• Ecuadoran journalist recounts how he was fired for not accepting newspaper’s conditions for his Tweets (August)
• Instagram account offers new lens on life in Latin America (October)
• Interview with correspondent Simon Romero: 15 years of covering Latin America for The New York Times (October)
• García Márquez archive opens at the University of Texas at Austin (October)
• Data journalism project NarcoData peels pack curtain on Mexican organized crime (October)
• Panel at UN General Assembly calls for more concrete actions to end impunity in crimes against journalists (November)
• Proportion of women in Latin American newsrooms grows significantly, study shows (December)

Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.