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Director of Human Rights Watch Americas says Mexican president does not care about murdered journalists

"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. […]

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Men shoot, attack and break equipment of journalists in the Brazilian city of Salvador de Bahía

"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 […]

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Political actors instigated a third of online gender attacks against journalists in Brazil in 2021

"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 […]

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Latin America registered higher traffic from social networks and an increase in mobile page views by the end of 2021

"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 […]

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El Tiempo de Colombia surpassed 100 thousand subscribers 14 months after launching its payment wall

"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 […]

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Mexico: Tijuana journalists join forces to do justice to their murdered colleagues, says El País in a special article

"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 […]

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Peru: Children of journalists murdered in Uchuraccay still await justice

“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 […]

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Brazil mayor endangers journalist Giovani Grizotti by publicizing picture in video

"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 […]

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The challenge of providing protection to threatened journalists in Mexico

"The murder of two journalists in Tijuana in a week once again raises the complexity of providing security to journalists in Mexico, one of the most dangerous countries for journalism and where protection mechanisms are overwhelmed or inefficient. Photographer Margarito Martínez and reporter Lourdes Maldonado were murdered on January 17 and last Sunday, respectively. [...] […]