"During the recording of the informative special 'Colombia asks the President,' produced by Noticias Caracol, President Iván Duque refused to answer a question posed by journalist Daniel Samper Ospina. FLIP has documented that Duque strongly warned that he would not answer questions that came from 'that man,' referring to Samper. The president sought to justify […]
Newsrooms from Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela are among the finalists for the 2021 Online Journalism Awards. The awards honor excellence in digital journalism and are a program of the Online News Association. Winners will be announced on Oct. 15. The finalists from Latin America are: GENERAL EXCELLENCE IN ONLINE JOURNALISM Agência Pública (Small Newsroom Finalist) […]
"A total of 80 attacks on press freedom were registered in Nicaragua in the month of August alone, according to the most recent report by La Prensa newspaper for this month, in which civil and judicial processes, assaults and arbitrary detentions against independent media directors, journalists and editors persist." Read original article (in Spanish)
"Journalists from Guerrero [Mexico] denounced the attacks they suffer while exercising their profession and pointed to authorities from the three levels of government and members of criminal groups that operate in a coordinated manner in different areas of Guerrero, with the collaboration of police forces. This position is the core of a document addressed to […]
“A journalist throughout his life, Gabriel García Márquez rarely published an interview. He liked to do it and then create a more in-depth crónica or report, but he was never in favor of this genre, less since tape recorders were used and memory and notes were no longer used. The few that he did publish, […]
“The FLIP [Foundation for Press Freedom] expresses its concern for the extortive retention and constraint to which journalist Josué Nieves, director of the digital media outlet N Noticias Saravena, has been subjected. The journalist denounced that he was detained by FARC dissidents and forced to technically assist in the recording of a survival test of […]
“Independent journalist Camila Acosta, who is under State Security surveillance, showed on her social networks photos and videos of the agents trying to hide behind a tree in front of her house, so as not to be seen while checking the movements of the young woman. Acosta pointed out that on Sept.16 she will complete […]
"The National Union of Press Workers reported this Friday [Sept. 10] that Chilean-Venezuelan communicator Braulio Jatar was declared innocent, for which he is granted complete freedom. [...] Jatar, director of the site Reporte Confidencial, was arrested on Sept. 3, 2016 after publishing about a protest against Nicolás Maduro on the island of Margarita. " […]
“Last Thursday, Sept. 9, there were strong demonstrations in Bogotá in response to the one year anniversary of the murder of Javier Ordóñez. In the midst of riots, vandalism and clashes with the Mobile Anti-riot Squad of the National Police (Esmad), it was learned that a photojournalist was injured with a projectile. RCN reported that […]
“At a meeting in the Government Palace, executives of the CPP [Peruvian Press Council] asked President Pedro Castillo to sign the Declarations of Chapultepec and Salta in light of the recent attacks on journalists, the limitations that exist on their daily work. The president stated that he would analyze both documents and that he would […]