"A federal judge ruled that Juan Francisco 'P,' alias 'El Quillo,' belonging to the criminal cell of the Dámaso, which was part of the Sinaloa Cartel, is responsible for the murder of journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas. The sentence will be issued later. [...] During the process, the Special Prosecutor's Office for Crimes Committed against Freedom […]
"The Rio Civil Police Deputy Pablo Dacosta Sartori summoned journalist Leandro Demori, from The Intercept Brasil, to testify on Thursday (June 10, 2021). According to information from the site Metrópoles, the motivation for the subpoena was the May 8 newsletter published by the website, with accusations against civil police officers in Rio de Janeiro. In […]
"The Press Emblem Campaign announced this Monday (June 7) in Geneva that the number of journalists killed by COVID-19 surpassed the 1,500 mark worldwide, reaching 1,503. The month of May was the deadliest for the media since the beginning of the pandemic, with more than 200 losses, an average of seven per day. The countries […]
"The Consortium to Support Independent Journalism in the Region (CAPIR) launches a call to support with training and a seed fund of up to 10,000 USD to help carry out a cross-border journalistic investigation that address issues of public interest to Latin America. Independent media outlets or independent journalists who have the backing of media […]
“Milagros Costabel is 19 years old, she is from Colonia, Uruguay, and she was born without being able to see. Her disability didn't stop her from dreaming big. Last year, in the midst of a pandemic, she published her articles in English-speaking media outlets. And, starting in August, she will study at the prestigious American […]
“The Gabo Foundation, an institution created in 1995 by the Colombian journalist and Nobel laureate of literature, Gabriel García Márquez, opens registration for the ninth edition of the Gabo Award, the most important recognition of journalism in Spanish and Portuguese. […] Journalistic works published for the first time in Spanish or Portuguese between July 1, […]
"On the Day of the Journalist, we published the Map of News Deserts of Argentina, an investigation by FOPEA, with the support of [Google Argentina]. We toured the entire country, town by town, to reveal the uneven distribution of journalism. For 6 months, a team of more than 20 journalists worked to ascertain where there […]
[...] “At about 7:30 p.m. on May 28, two unidentified men on a motorcycle approached [journalist Calixto] Zambrano as he was returning to his home in the western town of El Carmen, and one of the men pulled out a pistol and fired several shots. Two of the shots hit Zambrano as he ran away, […]
"At about 2:30 a.m. on May 21, an unidentified man attacked Aguilera with a knife as he returned to his home in Pénjamo, a city in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, according to the journalist, who spoke to CPJ in a phone interview, and news reports. Aguilera, the founder of the news outlets Pénjamo.Biz and Pénjamo.Biz 2.0, told CPJ, […]
"Google News Initiative Startups Lab Hispanoamérica is an independent digital media accelerator in Spanish that will support the development of journalistic ventures and promote the personal growth of its members. During the program, digital media will create strategies to strengthen their business models, expand knowledge about their audiences, and innovate in working with their teams. […]
"[In Peru], former presidential candidate and leader of the Alliance for Progress (APP, for its acronym in Spanish), César Acuña, sued the journalist and author of the book 'Plata como cancha,' Christopher Acosta, for alleged defamation. Likewise, he demanded the payment of civil compensation of 100,000,000 soles (about US $26 million) for allegedly having 'damaged […]
“Journalists Marvin del Cid and Sonny Figueroa were denounced on May 21 by María Luisa Morales Gatica de Martínez and Claudia Ivonne Martinez Morales de Girón because of a journalistic investigation into the luxury properties that relatives of the former director of the Center of Government, Luis Miguel Martínez Morales, occupied during his tenure and […]