“In his last column in the Mexican regional newspaper Notiver, Miguel Ángel López Velasco addressed femicide, political nepotism and the contamination of drinking water. Authorities had promised to deal with the problems, wrote López Velasco, then deputy director of that media outlet for the state of Veracruz. "And if not, we will remind you here," […]
"Reporters Without Borders (RSF, for its acronym in French) hails the progress in the investigation into journalist Romano dos Anjos’s abduction and torture in October 2020 in Roraima state, in northern Brazil, which has led to the arrest of Roraima state assembly representative Jalser Renier. The judicial system must now clearly identify everyone involved in […]
"The Pulitzer Center has opened its call for applications to the Rainforest Investigations Network Fellowships. In its second year, the network will select a new cohort of journalists to receive financial and editorial support to investigate the most pressing issues driving deforestation in the Amazon, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia. ... December 15, 2021, is […]
"The National Association of Newspapers (ANJ) and the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) released, this Thursday [Oct. 21], a statement of repudiation against the decision of Judge Manuel Amaro de Lima, of the 3rd Civil and Work Accidents Court of Amazonas, who increased censorship against articles in the newspaper O Globo about studies under […]
"The headquarters of Editora Três, responsible for publishing the magazine IstoÉ, was the target of criminal attacks this Wednesday night [Oct. 20], days after publishing an edition whose cover compares President Jair Bolsonaro to Adolf Hitler. According to the company, 'political activists' put up posters and graffiti on the walls of the place, causing damage […]
"On the day that Brazil reached more than half of its population fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the consortium of media outlets completed 500 uninterrupted days of work. The group is formed by G1, O Globo, Extra, O Estado de S.Paulo, Folha de S.Paulo and UOL. The consortium was created on June 8, 2020 in response […]
"Miami (October 21, 2021) - Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua are the countries with the worst results in the "Chapultepec Index 2021", a barometer of the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) that measures levels of freedom of the press and expression in the Americas, while Uruguay and Chile continue to be the best located and most reliable […]
"The Colonel of the National Police, Rafael Marcelo Pérez Aguirre, sent a letter to the journalist of Código Vidrio, Arturo Torres, with threatening terms in which he asked to know the journalist's source and also disqualified his work, after the communicator launched a tweet on Twitter. Torres wrote a thread on Twitter that reported that […]
"Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora, president and founder of the morning newspaper elPeriódico, denounced this Tuesday [Oct. 19] before the general public that the head of the Executive, Alejandro Giammattei, together with the attorney general and head of the public prosecutor's office, Consuelo Porras, 'are fabricating' a case against him to incarcerate him. Zamora, one […]
"The battle over what is true or false, who gets to decide, and whether and how to punish offenders, is tearing at the very fabric of [Brazil's] young democracy. Fake news is badly eroding the public’s faith in Brazil’s voting system ahead of presidential elections in 2022. It is also at the heart of a […]