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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. [...] […]

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Argentina: 'Never again a journalist assassinated'

"The Association of Graphic Reporters of the Argentine Republic (Argra) commemorated this Jan. 25 [...] the 25th anniversary of the murder of photographer José Luis Cabezas. The organizers of the memorial said the crime against the journalist was "an act to intimidate journalism and society." The event was also attended by representatives of press unions, under the […]

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Mexico: Journalist from Oaxaca is shot after a car chase, but escapes unharmed

"This Wed. Jan. 26 in the morning, after a car chase, armed individuals shot at the Oaxacan journalist José Ignacio Santiago Martínez, when he was on his way to the city of Juchitán, in the region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the victim confirmed to EL UNIVERSAL, the Ombudsman for Human Rights of the People […]

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Gender violence against journalists in Brazil totaled 119 cases in 2021, according to report

"During 2021, 89 journalists and media outlets were the target of 119 gender-related attacks related to their profession, which represents almost 10 cases of aggression, abuse, threats and intimidation per month. As a result of monitoring gender-based violence against journalists, carried out by the Associação Brasileira de Jornalismo Investigativo (Abraji), the data includes attacks involving […]

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Protests in Mexico: Dozens of cities cry out for a stop to violence against journalists

"Journalists and citizens from all over Mexico wen out this Tues. Jan. 25 to protest in more than thirty cities to denounce the violence suffered by journalists. Mexico is the most dangerous country in the world to practice the profession, with dozens of murders every year and hundreds of attacks. Impunity reigns. Every year, around […]

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Panama: The 2002 transparency law turns 20

"Law 6, signed on Jan. 22, 2002, "which dictates rules for transparency in public management, establishes the action of habeas data and dictates other provisions," celebrates its first 20 years in an environment of controversy over access to public information, the resistance of national and local authorities to deliver information, and paradoxically supported by an […]