"Over the past five years, IWMF sent 171 grantees and 85 recipients of year-long fellowships for local journalists to report stories from different countries throughout Latin America [as part of the Adelante reporting initiative.] The program ended this past February. IWMF Executive Director Elisa Lees Muñoz said in an impact report that Adelante’s goal was […]
"Over the past five years, IWMF sent 171 grantees and 85 recipients of year-long fellowships for local journalists to report stories from different countries throughout Latin America [as part of the Adelante reporting initiative.] The program ended this past February. IWMF Executive Director Elisa Lees Muñoz said in an impact report that Adelante’s goal was […]
"At about 8:30 p.m. on April 20, an unidentified man aboard a motorcycle shot and slightly injured [Luis Carlos] Ayala, who works as a freelance photojournalist and often contributes to the independent news website Colombia Informa, in the western city of Cali, according to news reports and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ via messaging […]
“Seventy-three percent of women journalists have suffered online harassment related to their work, according to a pioneering study released by UNESCO on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Conference, which will be held starting April 29 in Namibia. 'Online violence, often in the form of coordinated misogynistic attacks, ranges from hate speech to threats […]
"The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji, for its acronym in Portuguese) has mapped 100 journalists blocked by public authorities on Twitter since it started to monitor these cases continuously, in September 2020. There are 196 blocks to the profiles of the President of the Republic, of ministers, deputies, governors and other authorities. The reasons […]
“The anti-money laundering prosecutor [of Peru] Yovana Mori García, appointed as the person in charge of the Panama Papers Case in 2016, threatened Ojo Público with resorting to the Judiciary to request the seizure of documents related to the journalistic investigation into the law firm Mossack Fonseca, which originated as a collaborative effort led by […]
“The National Association of Journalists (CNP, for its acronym in Spanish) [of Venezuela] reported that the fire at the Sucre state headquarters was intentional, as established by a firefighters' investigation. The CNP classifies the incident as one more attack on freedom of expression that violates the legacy of all journalists, [as it said in a […]
"A Associação Brasileira de Jornalismo Investigativo (Abraji) mapeou 100 jornalistas bloqueados por autoridades públicas no Twitter desde que passou a monitorar esses casos de forma contínua, em set.2020. São 196 bloqueios aos perfis do presidente da República, de ministros, deputados, governadores e outras autoridades. Os motivos dos bloqueios recebidos pelo formulário do monitoramento ou feitos […]
"On April 22, 2021, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) adopted Resolution 34/21, in which it granted precautionary measures in favor of Yoel Suárez Fernández, after considering that he finds himself in a situation of serious and urgent risk of irreparable damage to his rights in Cuba. According to the request, the beneficiary is […]
"With the aim of providing resources to these professionals to help them overcome the new challenges presented by the digital environment, the project 'From the social network to the support network: Cyber-resilience for journalists," carried out by the Institute of Technology and Society (ITS Rio) and Redes Cordiales with the support of Facebook Journalism Project, […]
Jeremy McDermott, co-director of the investigative journalism outlet InSight Crime, faces a criminal defamation suit from Colombian businessman Guillermo León Acevedo Giraldo, alias “Memo Fantasma." "The case stems from a two-year investigation published in March 2020 into Acevedo. It showed how the Madrid-based businessman was once a prolific drug trafficker as well as a former leader […]
"Federal judge Luis Rodríguez charged journalist Daniel Santoro for an alleged attempt to extort businessman Daniel Traficante. The magistrate's decision included an embargo of 850,000 pesos (about US $9,100) without preventive detention, according to the ruling. Rodríguez considered that Santoro was a 'necessary participant' in the maneuver in which -according to the complaint- Traficante was […]