"Marco Aurélio de Morais Siqueira was a radio host at FM Cultura in Teresina, Brazil, for 23 years. He presented the Usina do Som program, which aired Monday to Friday, 5 pm to 6 pm. About a month ago, he was removed by force from his place of work for the municipality's Finance Department. According […]
"Based on the information collected and brought to the public annually in the CPT's Conflicts in Campo Brasil reports, the Conflict Map makes an unprecedented analysis of data, investigating the instances of conflicts in the countryside in the Legal Amazon during the last decade (2011-2020). In addition to being a way to stimulate readers' interest […]
"On Journalist's Day [in Paraguay], the General Secretary of the Paraguayan Journalists' Union, Santiago Ortiz, stressed that journalism demands security and guarantees for its professional practice, particularly for colleagues from the interior of the country. He pointed to the accelerated deterioration of working conditions of journalists (...) The low salaries, long working hours, breach of […]
“The Gabo Foundation, an institution created in 1995 by Colombian journalist and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, officially opened the 2022 Gabo Award cycle. The competing works must have been published for the first time between July 1, 2021 and June 7, 2022 and be entered to the award platform before the deadline: Wed., […]
"Daniel Ortega's regime denied entry to the country and threatened to arrest the journalistic team of MegaTV, a Spanish-language channel based in Miami, Florida, on April 24. The journalists were forcibly expelled from the country and sent to El Salvador. The journalist Camilo Loret de Mola and his cameraman, César Torero, were detained at the […]
"The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Free Press Unlimited (FPU) lead this forum, which promotes "popular justice" against the murders of journalists while seeking that governments "be accountable for their actions," according to representatives. "We have prosecutors working at the service of criminal groups," denounced Sara Mendiola during the first of […]
"This Monday, April 25, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), took advantage of his usual morning press conference to exhibit the alleged luxury property of the communicator Carlos Loret de Mola, who works as the owner of the news outlet Latinus and as a columnist for the newspapers El Universal and The […]
"In Mexico, being a woman and a journalist implies a double violence. On the one hand, the one that impacts us every day with 10 murdered women; and on the other, the absolute lack of access to comprehensive protection for the exercise of freedom of expression, with 99% of impunity in recorded cases of attacks […]
"Freedom of the press in the Dominican Republic has been tarnished by the recent aggression suffered by journalists and by the obstacles they have in accessing public information, as the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) denounced on April 20th in its preliminary report. The IAPA described that police agents repressed and stripped reporters from Listín Diario […]
"We are delighted to announce the third edition of the Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge for Latin America, designed to stimulate innovation around creating a more sustainable and diverse news ecosystem in the region. (...) In this third edition for the region, we want to promote innovative projects focused (but not limited) in the following […]