The organization recorded 30 cases in which police officers violently advanced against journalists, photographers and cameramen from digital, print and televised media outlets.
This Plan of Action “aims to create a free and safe environment for journalists and media workers around the world,” according to the statement.
Se destacó también por su defensa de la libertad de prensa. De hecho fue director de la Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) de Colombia, y fue columnista de los diarios El Espectador, El Colombiano y El Heraldo.
Reports published in media in Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela and the United States were selected as the best in the categories of Text, Coverage, Innovation and Image from 1,730 applications and 12 finalists.
About 60 independent journalists have gone into exile, which in a country as small as Nicaragua is an important number proportionally speaking.
About 60 independent journalists have gone into exile, which in a country as small as Nicaragua is an important number proportionally speaking.
“Female journalists today face unprecedented hardships for simply speaking truth to power,” the IWMF writes.
“Female journalists today face unprecedented hardships for simply speaking truth to power,” the IWMF writes.
A Haitian journalist was hit by a gunshot as police fired live ammunition during a protest in Port-au-Prince on Sept. 30, according to the radio station where he works, Radio Sans Fin.
A program from the Facebook Journalism Project that has passed through the United States, Germany, Canada and Australia arrived in Brazil on July 29 to strengthen local journalism in five regions of the country.
The CPI published a report about leaked chat messages between governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló, and his inner circle. The often-times crude messages led to massive citizen protests. Eleven days later, Rosselló announced he would resign.
Peruvian investigative journalist Paola Ugaz is the target of a second lawsuit, this time for allegedly making false statements as a witness during the defamation trial against her colleague Pedro Salinas.