"Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Wednesday suspended a network of social media accounts it said were used to spread divisive political messages online by employees of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and two of his sons." Read original article
Facebook announced they will be introducing a journalists registration "for people who work at news organizations to register as a journalist on Facebook, in order to receive access to benefits, tools and features built with journalists' needs in mind. Registration is voluntary, and will first be available to journalists located in the United States, Mexico, […]
"Miami, July 2, 2020–Cuban authorities should immediately release journalist Jorge Enrique Rodríguez and stop harassing the independent media, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On June 28, security forces arrested Rodríguez, of the independent news site Diario de Cuba, and took him to the criminal processing center known as ‘Vivac in Havana, according to […]
"Agência Pública launched on June 25 their first participatory research project. Readers from the whole country are invited to tell stories of family members or acquaintances who have died of COVID-19. The objective is to use that information to write articles, researching the circumstances in which these deaths happened and also telling the stories of the victims […]
"Guatemalan reporters, immersed in an economic and labor crisis which has been heightened by the pandemic, are also facing getting sick with COVID-19; the journalists are reporting various cases in the last weeks." Read original article (Spanish)
"Five Venezuelan journalism associations in the world have decided to unite as a Federation to multiply their efforts for their fight for the freedom of expression and to support Venezuelan journalists, in their integration in the societies they reside in." Read original article (Spanish)
"A Nation photojournalist was attacked and killed this afternoon by an unknown assailant while covering the death of an unidentified victim on the heavily wooded grounds of Bishop’s Court...Photographer Christoff Griffith was confirmed by police as having been killed on the scene...Barbados TODAY understands that workers on the site of the ruins removing asbestos may have […]
"In less than 24 hours, the body of the journalist Alma García was located inside a hotel in Cajeme, Sonora, and the reporter José Castillo was found dead outside his home in the Ciudad Obregón municipality, in the same state. José Castillo, a reporter for the media outlet 'Prioridad Máxima,' was assassinated this Thursday morning […]
"On May 19, the third chamber of the Chilean Supreme Court ruled that Radio Bío Bío had illegally published a recorded conversation between local judge Marcela Guerra and political operative John Campos, and ordered the outlet to remove the recording from its website and anywhere else it had been posted, according to Radio Bío Bío […]
“The decision of the Brazilian government to omit the general balance of deaths of COVID-19 as of this Saturday (6th) places the country alongside Venezuela or the most closed regime in the world, North Korea, in the transparency management of pandemic statistics.” Read original article (Portuguese)
"Argentina's intelligence agency says the administration of previous President Mauricio Macri spied on more than 400 journalists, and officials have released a document they say is evidence of the claim. An Excel spreadsheet presented to courts on Friday and made public Sunday by the president's office listed 402 journalists who apparently had applied for accreditation […]
"A team with Venezuelan site Crónica.Uno was detained in Catia while covering measures taken by the Maduro government in relation to the coronavirus. Three press workers also reported that the authorities did not allow them to work. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López said Sunday that the press could be on the streets despite the demand […]