"Journalist Abraham Jiménez Enoa, correspondent in Havana for The Washington Post newspaper, was summoned this Thursday morning by Lieutenant Colonel Kenia Morales for an 'interview,' in which he was threatened with jail if he continues his collaboration with the U.S. media outlet." Read original article (in Spanish)
"In July, Lupa, a Brazilian fact-checking agency, launched the data visualization tool No epicentro (At the epicenter). Created to draw people's attention to those who died from COVID-19, the methodology simulates what it would be like if all those who died were close to each one of us, if they were our neighbors. The tool […]
"The verbal fight between two rival political groups in the Plaza 14 de Septiembre in the city of Cochabamba, on Thursday, Sept. 24, ended in a pitched battle and assault on journalists who were covering the news. Edwin Soria, journalist for the Univalle television channel, suffered first and second degree burns on his left hand […]
"After launching its membership program to fund investigative journalism in Peru, OjoPúblico signed an agreement with The New York Times Licensing Group - the content licensing division of the New York Times - to publish a selection of stories from The New York Times in Spanish." Read original article (in Spanish)
"The Special Prosecutor's Office for Crimes committed against Freedom of Expression (Feadle) of Mexico requested this Tuesday a sentence of 50 years in prison for one of those accused of the murder of journalist Javier Valdez, which occurred on May 15, 2017 . In a hearing held after a 20-month delay, Feadle formalized its accusation […]
"The president of the Association of Journalists of Honduras (CPH), Dagoberto Rodríguez, reported this Monday that the organization is withdrawing from the protection mechanism for employees dedicated to this area due to the large number of cases of murders and assaults that go unpunished. With the recent murder of journalist Luis Almendares in Comayagua, the […]
"In an increasingly fraught climate for independent media in Nicaragua, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the writers’ association PEN International call on the country’s legislators to reject a bill under which many journalists would have to register as 'foreign agents.' With its declared aim of 'preventing crimes against state security,' the proposed 'Law regulating foreign […]
“There are headlines that kill twice. Juliana Giraldo, a trans woman, was murdered in cold blood by a military officer on a Colombian highway on Sept. 24. The cries of pain from her husband explaining that 'we do not carry weapons, we do not carry anything, I did not do anything' swept the country in […]
“The Venezuelan Press and Society Institute (IPYS-Venezuela) published its most recent investigation ‘Atlas of Silence: The news deserts in Venezuela,’ in which it revealed that more than five million people live without access to sufficient media in the country. Through its national network of correspondents and the systematization of data, it analyzed the reality of […]
"This Monday morning, Honduran journalist Luis Alfonso Almendares (35) died after being the victim of a criminal attack that occurred while he broadcasted via Facebook Live in Comayagua, in the central area of the country." Read the original article (in Spanish)
"The Attorney General's Office of Colombia pronounced this Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, about the liberation of two defendants for murder of the journalistic team of the daily El Comercio. The entity questioned that "due to the congestion registered by the Criminal Court of Tumaco (Nariño)," Gustavo Alfonso Ospina and Gustavo Angulo Arboleda have been released. […]
"Journalists from the television stations Columbia, Repretel and Teletica were verbally and physically attacked on Aug. 25 while covering a protest held by Movimiento Rescate Nacional against the sanitary measures to contain the propagation of COVID-19, in San Jose, Costa Rica. The reporter Alejandro Arley, of Noticias Columbia, spoke about his experience on the Por […]