“The Chavista regime seized cameras, computers, and transmission equipment from the independent network VPItv and closed the Maracaibo headquarters of the newspaper Panorama. In addition, the site TalCual was hacked and the official network Globovisión published an extensive article accusing Efecto Cocuyo, Caraota Digital and El Pitazo of being 'financed to overthrow the government.'" Read […]
"The Committee to Protect Journalists today joined 50 human rights organizations, media outlets, and individuals in a statement calling on Guatemalan authorities to drop all remaining charges against Indigenous radio journalist Anastasia Mejía Tiriquiz." Read the full article
“The Gabo Foundation, created in 1995 by the journalist and Nobel Prize winner for Literature Gabriel García Márquez, announces the 40 nominees for the 2020 Gabo Prize, the most important recognition of journalism in Spanish and Portuguese. These works stand out, according to the judges of the eighth edition of the Gabo Prize, for their […]
"At the end of last December, Andrés Felipe Guevara, 27, a journalist for the judicial section of the newspaper Q'Hubo, was shot by a hitman while with a friend in the Mariano Ramos neighborhood, in southeastern Cali. After fighting for his life for a couple days, he died on Dec. 23 as a result of […]
"More than 600 journalists died of Covid-19 in 59 countries in ten months in 2020, that is to say 60 per month, or two per day on average, announced Tuesday in Geneva the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC). [...] Of the 602 journalists who have died from Covid-19 since March 1, 2020, Latin America leads with […]
"At 3:40 in the afternoon of this Monday, Jan. 4, in the city of León, two National Police patrols, with approximately a dozen anti-narcotics and anti-riot agents with canines arrived at the home of the director of Radio Darío, Aníbal Toruño. The agents entered after destroying the iron fence and the main door of the […]
"This Monday, in the framework of a demonstration by ACES high school students at the Ministry of Education, cameraman Álex Cuadra was detained by national police, while he was performing his press duties. In this regard, the Directorate of the WarnerMedia news center reports that it ‘regrets and repudiates the detention that a member of […]
"On December 12, Judge Cleni Serly Rauen Vieira, of the Santa Catarina state Court of Justice’s Third Civil Court, ordered independent news websites The Intercept Brasil and ND+, and Schirlei Alves, a freelance journalist who contributed to both outlets, to 'rectify' their reporting on a rape trial, according to news reports and the judge’s decision, […]
"Felipe Guevara Henao,27, died this Wednesday (12/23/2020) after being seriously injured during a shooting attack by unknown persons in Cali, capital of the Colombian department of Valle del Cauca (southwest)... According to preliminary information, the reporter, a graduate of the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, had not received threats against his life and at the time […]
Judicial journalist for Q'hubo, Felipe Guevara, was seriously injured with a firearm on Monday night [Dec. 21] in the Mariano Ramos neighborhood in eastern Cali. Guevara, 27, was shot four times by unknown individuals... To date, he had not reported threats against his life." Read original article (in Spanish)
"The Washington Post will take new steps in 2021 to become a more global newsroom by creating breaking-news hubs in Europe and Asia... The Post will also establish new foreign bureaus in Sydney and Bogotá, adding to an international footprint that will grow to 26 locations around the world." Read original story
"Social communicator and owner of Radio Bambi died this Saturday [Dec. 19] after being shot by an unknown person in the municipality of Dulce Nombre de Culmí, Olancho, in the eastern part of the country. The victim is Pedro Arcángel Canelas who also worked for Radio Catacamas for some time. He currently ran Radio Bambi, […]