"The Monitoring Center of the Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES, for its acronym in Spanish) recorded a total of 314 attacks on journalists between Jan. 1 and July 14, 2025, with May being the month with the most violations, with 91. The figures are cause for concern in the context of Journalists' Day, […]
"Journalist Leilane Neubarth, 66, was verbally attacked by a woman while shopping in a store on Tuesday (July 29). She recorded the incident with her cell phone, shared the video on her Instagram profile, and claimed she only caught the final part of the woman's speech. In the footage, the attacker can be seen saying […]
"A journalism team from Record Bahia was attacked on Friday morning (July 25), while covering an accident involving a car and a motorcycle, on Avenida Anita Garibaldi, one of the main streets in Salvador [Brazil]. The incident occurred live during the "Bahia no Ar" program and involved reporter Mateus Borges and cameraman Tarcísio Lima. The […]
"A provocation to the Union of Professional Journalists (SJPMG, for its initials in Portuguese) and the Journalist's House caused great concern, on the afternoon of this Tuesday (July 22), with the need for mobilization of the Military Police and the Special Police Operations Battalion. In the morning, a suspicious package was left on the steps […]
"The cancellation of funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by decision of US President Donald Trump resulted in a loss of approximately US$150 million in annual support for journalism and the information ecosystem worldwide. The figure comes from the report "Crisis in Journalism: The Impact of the US Government Funding Cuts […]
"Economic instability and financial hardship continue to hinder independent journalism in Honduras. Those who commit to transparent reporting face daily obstacles that prevent the growth of alternative media serving the country. Journalists engaged in investigative and in-depth reporting regularly confront challenges such as limited technological infrastructure, threats to freedom of expression, censorship, self-censorship and violence. […]
"Journalist Mercedes Agüero, a former reporter for the newspaper La Nación, testified Tuesday [July 29] in the trial over alleged influence peddling involving former San José mayor Johnny Araya and former prosecutors Celso Gamboa and Berenice Smith. Agüero spoke about the process that led her to publish a report on the alleged removal of Araya’s […]
"The chief prosecutor for the National District in the Dominican Republic, Rosalba Ramos, expressed serious concern Tuesday over what she described as a growing wave of public defamation and alleged media blackmail, which she said threatens to undermine journalism ethics in the country. Ramos said the Attorney General’s Office has opened an investigation in response […]
"Amnesty International and a group of press organizations called for the release of Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora on Tuesday [July 29], three years after his arrest on accusations of money laundering that they consider a setup to attack freedom of information. Zamora, 68, who is also accused of blackmail, has been in prison since […]
"In May 2025, the Mexican government's Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists recorded an increase in applications from journalists, rising from 26 in May 2024 to 32 in the same month this year. This represented an increase of six cases, equivalent to a 23% increase over the previous year. However, of those 32 […]
"A total of 913 journalists have been forced to leave their countries in Latin America from 2018 to 2024 to protect their lives, safety, or freedom. This is according to the report “Displaced Voices: An X-ray of Latin American Journalistic Exile 2018–2024,” published by Proledi at the University of Costa Rica, along with Fundamedios (USA) […]
Five journalistic works from Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and El Salvador were announced as winners in the 13th edition of the Gabo Award, the most important recognition for journalism in Spanish and Portuguese. In the Text category, the award went to the report “Buscando a Mikelson: un apartheid en el Caribe” (Searching for Mikelson: Apartheid […]