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Rio2016 Olympic Games communications director explains how the city is getting ready for 30,000 journalists

By the time the Olympic Games start in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 5, 2016, the communications team will have spent three years preparing for the influx of more than 30,000 media workers, millions of fans and scores of critics with eyes on Brazil.

Paraguayans mark anniversary of journalist's death with calls for justice

A white plaque near Villa Ygatimí, about 26 miles from the Paraguayan border with Brazil, commemorates a journalist and an assistant killed while driving on a dirt highway there a year earlier.

García Márquez archive opens at the University of Texas at Austin

From Bogotá to Mexico City to Los Angeles to Austin, admirers of Gabriel García Márquez watched as the archivesof the novelist and journalist opened for viewing at the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) on Oct. 21.

Brazilian journalist whose visa was revoked by Ecuador will present her case before the IACHR of the OAS

After the Provincial Court of Pichincha in Ecuador denied the appeal for protective action filed by Brazilian journalist Manuela Picq on Oct. 1, her lawyer announced that the case will be presented to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States (OAS).

Photographers gather in Mexico City to support family of murdered colleague

Photographers from around the world donated their work to support the family of photojournalist and colleague Rubén Espinosa who was killed almost three months ago in Mexico City.

Colombia’s El Tiempo is the most followed Latin American newspaper on Twitter

Newspapers from Colombia, Brazil and Venezuela are pulling in the highest numbers of Twitter followers for major dailies in Latin America.

Ownership is concentrated, transparency lacking with regard to Colombian media, study shows

Journalists and press advocates have created another project to study concentration of media ownership in Colombia. They found low transparency, high ownership concentration and links between media owners and the political world, among other insights.

Ownership is concentrated, transparency lacking with regard to Colombian media, study shows

Journalists and press advocates have created another project to study concentration of media ownership in Colombia. They found low transparency, high ownership concentration and links between media owners and the political world, among other insights.

AP's Mark Stevenson: We need to level the playing field for reporters in Mexico

Associated Press journalist Mark Stevenson’s reporting from Mexico showcases the country’s natural beauty, rich history and modern struggles for readers around the world. His ability as an investigator has led to concrete results for residents of his adopted country where misdeeds often go unpunished.

Interview with correspondent Simon Romero: 15 years of covering Latin America for The New York Times

Simon Romero started at The New York Times in 1999 as a stringer in Brazil. More than 15 years later, he has covered almost every country in Latin America and this week his work will be honored by the Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting on the Americas.

Media executives and journalists at IAPA assembly catalogue censorship in the Americas

Unsolved murders, violent government repression, oppressive anti-media laws and the ever-increasing ties between big money and big government were among the issues of debate at the 71st General Assembly of the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA).

New communications minister calls for less funding of state-owned media in Trinidad & Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago’s new communications minister told a group of Caribbean journalists that too much government money was being used to finance state-owned media companies in his country.