“It is no coincidence that three women communicators won top spots in the Walter Reuter 2021 German Journalism Award (PAPWR). The theme of the 15th edition was 'Gender Violence and Feminist Movements.' Something that women currently need is unity, solidarity and support to be seen and heard, the winners said. In an interview with Deutsche […]
“La República journalist Liubomir Fernandez was physically attacked and handcuffed by Police in Puno on Nov. 26, while he was covering the takeover of the Huáscar Polytechnic School in Puno. The journalist was broadcasting live and collecting statements from area residents who condemned this action. There was a police contingent on site. The video shows […]
"The then Mexican Attorney General's Office (PGR, by its Spanish acronym) investigated the journalist Marcela Turati, the defender, Anla Lorena Delgadillo, and the anthropologist Mercedes Doretti, who investigated the massacre of 196 victims found in clandestine graves in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, according to court documents obtained by The Washington Post. According to this US newspaper, […]
"From [the region of] Huancavelica, [Peruvian] President Pedro Castillo severely questioned some media outlets that–according to him– 'misrepresent reality' for reporting that on his visit this Monday [Nov. 22] to Arequipa, a group of people asked for him to be replaced. Castillo warned that his government will not give "a penny" to media that misinform […]
The US company Apple sent an email "to a very small number of users" of iPhone phones in which it warns of "possible espionage" and points out "attackers sponsored by the State" as suspects. Through the email that was sent on Tuesday Nov. 23 in the afternoon, the company described its message as urgent due […]
“A group of at least nine people attacked the main entrance of the Clarín Group building, in the Barracas neighborhood of Buenos Aires, with Molotov cocktails. The sequence was filmed and an investigation is already underway by the Federal Court No. 9, led by Judge Luis Rodríguez, who classified the case as "public intimidation." [...] […]
"Two journalistic investigations published by Sudestada about the participation of Uruguayan law firms in complex international money laundering structures were removed from Google search results, according to the company, without prior defense nor due process. Unable to defend itself, Sudestada presented on Nov. 19 a protection recourse before the Uruguayan Justice, backed by lawyer Matías […]
"Voting for mayors and governors began with complaints from the media and journalists covering elections and present at voting centers throughout Venezuela. Espacio Publico registered a total of 27 cases which equaled 53 freedom of expression violations in Aragua, Lara, Táchira, Mérida, Nueva Esparta, Sucre, Guárico, Portuguesa, Carabobo, Falcón, Bolívar, Caracas, Trujillo, and Cojedes. Intimidation, […]
"The Gabo Foundation, an institution founded by journalist and Nobel Prize laurate in Literature, Gabriel García Márquez, announced the winners of the Premio Gabo 2021, the premier journalism award in Spanish and Portuguese, in its four contest categories: Text, Image, Coverage, and Innovation. 'Massacre in Tamaulipas. The American Dream dies in Mexico' and 'Beyond the […]
"The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) paid tribute Thursday to brave journalists from Guatemala, Mozambique, and Myanmar by presenting them with CPJ’s 2021 International Press Freedom Awards (IPFA) in New York. (...) The awardees recognized at the event included Mozambican investigative journalist Matías Guente, Guatemalan radio journalist Anastasia Mejía Tiriquiz, and Myanmar journalist and Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) founder Aye Chan […]
"On Nov. 18, the Peruvian judiciary added another sentence to Vladimiro Montesinos, the former spy chief of former President Alberto Fujimori, for abducting a renowned journalist in 1992 during the shut-down of Congress and the suspension of democracy. The sentence of 17 years in prison will be added to the more than 30 sentences for […]
"The house of journalist Elba Ileana Molina, Channel 10 correspondent in Carazo, was tagged overnight with threatening and intimidating messages, presumably left by Sandinista fanatics, as has happened in other instances. Sheltered in the darkness of night, fans of the regime arrived at the journalist's home at dawn on Nov. 18 and wrote the word 'lead.' […]