"Fresh blocks on a handful of Venezuela’s few remaining independent news websites are a troubling sign of escalating press censorship, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday [Feb 4]. Journalists and experts say private internet service providers (ISPs) are censoring the sites for the first time, though they have been unavailable on state-run networks for […]
"The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) warned this Wednesday of "serious implications for press freedom" in El Salvador due to recent modifications to the Criminal Procedure Code (CPP) to combat computer crimes that "creates the legal status of an "undercover digital agent.” According to the agency's statement, the reform, approved on Feb. 1, by the Legislative […]
"Violence against the press in Mexico continues to be unstoppable. The director of a Mexican Caribbean news outlet suffered an attack on Tuesday, Feb. 1, at night. He escaped unharmed thanks to the fact that the attacker's weapon jammed at the moment he was going to shoot him. This saved him by mere seconds from […]
"The director of the Americas of Human Rights Watch (HRW), José Miguel Vivanco, said that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador 'does not care about the issue of murdered journalists.' 'In the last 20 years, at least 145 journalists have been assassinated in Mexico and of those, 25 in the first three years of his government. […]
"Armed criminals threatened teams of reporters from the TV channels Aratu and Band in Águas Claras, Salvador, in Brazil, on the morning of Feb. 1. The journalists were there to report on a homicide that occurred on Santa Tereza Street. The armed men fired into the air near press crews to intimidate the journalists. Band's […]
"According to monitoring of gender violence against journalists, carried out by the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji, by its Portuguese acronym), 85 (71.4%) of the 119 attacks recorded in 2021 had their origin or some repercussion in the digital environment. The numbers reveal an additional difficulty that social media and the digital environment pose […]
"Journalist Roberto Toledo has been murdered this Monday, Jan. 31 in Zitácuaro, Michoacán. This was confirmed by the editor of the digital news outlet Monitor Michoacán, Armando Linares, for whom the reporter worked. 'Showing the corruption by corrupt governments, corrupt officials and politicians led today to the death of one of our colleagues,' Linares condemned […]
"According to the latest public data from Chartbeat, the real-time tool used by the main newspapers in the world, there was a contraction in the total percentage of page views coming from cell phones during the last quarter of 2021. [...] Latin America is the only region in the world where pages viewed from the […]
"EL TIEMPO has reached an important milestone in its subscription model to surpass the threshold of 100,000 active digital subscribers, a great achievement which has placed it in first place within the news media by subscription in Colombia and third in Latin America, according to ranking by Grupo de Diarios de America, GDA. […] Thanks […]
"Tijuana's journalists, united these days by force of gunpowder, work more hours than the day is long to continue reporting on their city and, at the same time, to do the work that the Prosecutor's office should speed up in carrying out. Aware that the crimes against their colleagues in the Semanario Zeta go unpunished—as […]
“Their parents were taken from them in 1983, and since then they've asked for the case to be clarified and for justice to be done. 'These are photos that shock me, that always scared me because to me they meant death,' journalist Alicia Retto said, recalling the snapshots of her father, photographer Willy Retto, taken before […]
"Local authorities in the southern Brazilian city of Bagé should stop harassing and attempting to censor investigative journalist Giovani Grizotti and allow the press to do their job without retaliation, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. On January 13, Bagé mayor Divaldo Lara and communications officer Roberta Mércio shared a photo they claimed is of investigative […]