“Kristian Uriel Zavala, reporter and director of digital media outlet Silaoense Mx, was murdered early Sunday morning [March 2] after gunmen aboard a motorcycle shot at the car in which he was traveling accompanied by another young man identified as Axel. According to initial reports, the vehicle Sentra model 2024 in which the two young […]
"The Brazilian Press Association (ABI for its initials in Portuguese) filed a petition with the Federal Supreme Court on Wednesday, Feb. 26, signed by 29 journalist and civil society organizations, along with 550 journalists, legal experts, politicians, and public figures. The petition, addressed to Chief Justice Luís Roberto Barroso, calls for the suspension of charges […]
"Cheryl Ann Branker, the mother of Venezuelan journalist Rory Branker, said she has been unable to contact her son for a week and still does not know his whereabouts. Branker works for the digital news outlet LaPatilla.com. […] Meanwhile, Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello addressed the case on Wednesday during his TV program on state media, […]
"Colombia’s Council of State—the highest court handling cases involving the government—has rejected a lawsuit filed by 16 prominent journalists and two foundations against President Gustavo Petro for his use of the term “muñecas de la mafia” (“mafia dolls” in English). The presidency had requested the court dismiss the case. The ruling has drawn attention because […]
Argentina’s Circle of Parliamentary Journalists has condemned the decision to bar accredited reporters from the press galleries traditionally reserved for media during the upcoming legislative assembly, where President Javier Milei will address both chambers on Saturday. ‘This is an unprecedented decision, made without consultation, breaking more than a century of media access in Parliament, and […]
The National Union of Press Workers in Venezuela confirmed that journalist Eleangel Navas Vidal, who was detained during post-election protests in August 2024, has been released. The union announced on Feb. 26 that Navas Vidal was freed in late January, but the news was not made public until nearly a month later because his family […]
Ajor has published the Oasis Brasil report, a study on the sustainability and innovation of digital-native journalism organizations. The report, now available on Ajor’s website, presents an in-depth analysis of Brazil’s sector, based on data collected separately from the global study. The research, conducted between 2023 and 2024, surveyed more than 160 journalistic organizations across […]
A video captured the moment when a taxi driver, without no apparent provocation, accelerated his vehicle toward journalist Belén Goncalves of Ecuavisa as she was preparing to report live on air about flooding in the Guayas province of Ecuador. Goncalves told Fundamedios that before the incident, another driver passed near her team, shouting politically charged […]
"We reject and express our deep concern over the serious safety risk faced by journalist Edward Fabián Álvarez Rivera of La Chiva de Urabá. Since February 22, he has received death threats on social media from an individual identifying themselves as ‘El Tigre,’ a commander of a front of the National Liberation Army, demanding he […]
"The Paraguayan Journalists’ Union has reported new attacks on the press by Cartista Senator Norma Aquino, also known as Yami Nal, who threatened a journalist for exposing alleged ghost employment [irregularities in employe roster] involving her son at the National Statistics Institute. […] ‘Following the third threat from Senator Yamy Nal Aquino against our colleague […]
“Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum criticized the work of journalist Anabel Hernández, after she reported drug trafficker Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada's lawyer, Juan Pablo Penilla, is close to the Morena political party. In her morning conference this Monday, Feb. 24 at the National Palace, Sheinbaum said Anabel Hernández's journalism 'is fiction'. 'She has established a form […]
"Igor Melo, a student and owner of the website 'Informe Botafogo', was shot on Monday [24 February] by a reserve military police officer after being mistaken for a bandit when he was leaving the place where he works, in Penha, in the north section of Rio de Janeiro. According to journalist Renan Moura, from Rádio […]