15 of the most read, shared, liked and reTweeted posts from the Journalism in the Americas blog in 2017

• By Teresa Mioli
• January 3, 2018

As we start 2018, we wanted to take a look back at some of the most important, as well as widely read, shared and liked stories on the Knight Center’s Journalism in the Americas blog.

These stories looked at entrepreneurial successes, business strategies for sustainability, creative storytelling formats, digital security, development of new reporting tools and more. As always, they also included freedom of expression issues, including violence and legal cases against the press.

Thank you for joining us in 2017. We hope you’ll keep reading with us this year.

• Anabel Hernández tells how a U.S. university fellowship helped her investigate the disappearance of students in Mexico (January)
• Mexico's Pictoline engages audiences by explaining complex issues with intelligent, fun graphic communication (January)
• What to do after losing your job at a newspaper: Brazilian reporter creates a profitable startup and hires 20 journalists (February)
• How to use Facebook Live for journalism and to improve user engagement: Lessons from Spanish-language media (February)
• After protests, judge reverses ruling to access Brazilian blogger’s communications records (March)
• Crime reporter killed in Baja California Sur is fourth journalist killed in Mexico in the past two months (April)
• Journalists attacked during anti-government protests in Venezuela (April)
• How Argentina’s La Nación became a data journalism powerhouse in Latin America (April)
• Freedom of the press organizations warn of dark situation for journalism in Latin America (May)
• Award-winning Mexican journalist and author who covered drug trafficking is killed in Sinaloa (May)
• Public official sentenced for the first time in Mexico for ordering an attack against a journalist (July)
• After Hurricane Maria Puerto Rican journalists defy collapse of communications and personal losses to continue reporting (September)
• Join us in recognizing Latin America’s Women Journalists for the IWMF "Women Journo Heroes" campaign (October)
• Latin American journalists play pivotal role in #ParadisePapers transnational investigation (November)
• Brazilian reporters create profitable news site, JOTA, specializing in judicial issues (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.