"On Monday [Feb. 15], the Peruvian Press Council launched PerúCheck, a collaborative journalistic fact-checking tool to address the disinformation that has been occurring during this year's electoral campaign. The objective is for citizens to be able to vote with reliable information. The alliance is led by three national media outlets associated with the Peruvian Press […]
"The new room is far from the plenary and makes it difficult for reporters to access parliamentarians. It is not the first time that a president of the Chamber has tried to occupy the space of the Press Committee, where journalists work. (...) To leave the presidency of the Chamber and reach the plenary, the […]
“Each of the cases was exposed thanks to Mexico’s freedom of information system, often ranked among the world’s most effective. Created in 2002, it has allowed journalists and researchers to wrest documents from a government long known for opacity. The system has been ‘one of the most important democratic advances in Mexico’ since the end […]
“La nueva sala está alejada del pleno y dificulta el acceso de los reporteros a los parlamentarios. No es la primera vez que un presidente de la Cámara ha intentado ocupar el espacio del Comité de Prensa, donde trabajan los periodistas. (...) Para salir de la presidencia de la Cámara y llegar al pleno, el […]
"PortalCheck is an online initiative that offers valuable resources and tools on how to combat COVID-19 mis/disinformation in Latin America and the Caribbean. The platform (regional hub) consists of compiled notes and resources for distinct audiences created by expert fact-checkers from throughout the region. This joint project is implemented by UNESCO, in partnership with Chequeado […]
"The Federal Supreme Court (STF, for its acronym in Portuguese) denied on Thursday (Feb. 11) the recognition of the so-called 'right to be forgotten'- by which someone could claim that the media were prevented from disclosing information about a true fact considered harmful or painful." Read original article (in Portuguese)
“The overview of freedom of expression in [Colombia] is very worrying. This is demonstrated with figures and facts from a report by the Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP). According to the leading organization in the fight to protect journalists in the country, threats, homicides, displacements and exile have worsened 'significantly' in the last four years, […]
Nominations are being accepted for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize until Feb. 15. The award ceremony, which is endowed with US $25,000 and is held every year during World Press Freedom Day, will take place in Windhoek, Namibia, on May 3, 2021. UNESCO continues with its invitation to all the governments of the […]
"The National Center for Historical Memory revealed that 425 journalists were victimized during the armed confrontation in Colombia between 1958 and 2020. The greatest violent acts against them were selective murders with 244 press professionals killed, followed by abductions (149 records ) and forced disappearances with 23 victims. [...] According to the Memory Center, the […]
"Yesterday [Feb. 8] afternoon, in the Champs-des-Mars area of Port-au-Prince, the capital, unidentified attackers shot Destiné and Jeanril while they were covering protests calling for President Jovenel Moïse to step down, according to media reports and Jacques Desrosiers, secretary general of the Association of Haitian Journalists, a local trade group, who spoke with CPJ via […]