"Agência Pública, Brazil’s first investigative journalism agency, launched today (19/07) 'Investigating Brazil', an English-language newsletter aimed at international media outlets and journalists covering Brazil. This biweekly newsletter will offer summaries of exclusive, in-depth, and on-the-ground investigations produced by a team of experienced Brazilian journalists devoted to uncovering stories about the abuses of power in government, […]
“Judge Air Marin Junior, of the 2nd Civil Court of Boa Vista (RR), granted an injunction determining the removal of excerpts of the report '"I buy everything': Yanomami gold is freely sold on Rua do Ouro, in Boa Vista,” produced by Amazônia Real, in partnership with Repórter Brasil, and published on June 24 of this […]
"Journalist Abraham Mendoza was murdered this Monday [July 19] by armed men as he was leaving a gym in Morelia, the capital of Michoacán. The EXA-Morelia host was leaving the establishment located in the Gertrudis Bocanegra neighborhood, in this city, when he was shot. Three men who were traveling in a compact car were detained […]
“Since the pandemic began, the media has been banished from the national capitol. […] It is assumed that the session of this July 20, in which the legislature will be installed, will be completely face-to-face due to the fact that the election of the presidency of both chambers will be held, but again the media […]
"Prodavinci found that only two daily print newspapers circulate in Venezuela when, up to 2013, there were more than one hundred. Another 20 go out to the streets with a less frequent periodicity than daily. By June 2021, six media with national information are printed and 16 local newspapers The areas with the greatest information […]
"The hitmen came for Cecilio Pineda Birto as he swung in a hammock at a carwash, waiting for his pickup to be cleaned. The 38-year-old freelance reporter was shot dead on 2 March 2017 in Ciudad Altamirano, a town in the southern Mexican region of Tierra Caliente – a battleground for rival organised crime factions. […]
"IFEX-ALC is concerned over the 11 July theft of computers and an external hard drive from the home of CAinfo president Fabián Werner and his partner, journalist María Natalia Rodríguez. The theft took place within a context of increasing hostility against the media in Uruguay, which was highlighted by CAinfo in its 7th Threats Monitoring […]
"Born in Zipaquirá on March 3, 1940, Germán Castro Caycedo was a Colombian writer and cronista. His works stood out around the world thanks to the testimonies about the reality of Colombia. As reported by Noticias Caracol, the journalist died in his house due to a fight against cancer and it was his wife who […]
“The National Association of Journalists of Peru condemns the attacks on journalists during a demonstration of Fujimori sympathizers in the streets of downtown Lima on Wednesday, July 14, in the afternoon and evening. In this protest, members of the self-styled group 'La Resistencia' attacked Fátima Chávez of Canal N; Anghela Torres, Karina Reynafarge Herrada, Ronald […]
"On July 11, 2021, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) adopted Resolution 52/21, in which it granted precautionary measures in favour of Willih Francisco Narváez González and Alberto José Miranda Herrera, after considering that they find themselves in a situation of serious and urgent risk of irreparable damage to their rights in Nicaragua. According […]
"On July 7, at about 6 p.m., agents with the Chilean Investigative Police shot rubber bullets at [journalists Vicente Rojas López and Felipe García] while they were covering the funeral procession of activist Luisa Toledo Sepúlveda as it passed in front of the Investigative Police headquarters in Santiago, the capital, hitting García in the face […]
"A journalist from Moju, northeastern Pará, was shot at on Friday night (July 9). According to residents, two suspects shot at least seven times at the victim, who was reportedly shot in the chest and face on his way home, after attending an Adventist church service. He was taken to Belém, where he must receive […]