"Managua, July 10, 2020 – Panamanian authorities should immediately restore Corporación La Prensa’s access to its financial assets, and ensure that legal actions do not censor the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On July 4, a Panamanian civil court ordered a freeze on the assets and bank accounts of Corporación La Prensa, […]
"Reporters Without Borders (RSF - from French Reporters sans frontières) publishes the second part of a series of publications on press freedom in Brazil in 2020 and exposes the structure that drives a network of attacks, led by President Bolsonaro, who systematically encourages hostility and society's distrust of the press. " Read the original article […]
"Since the initial outbreak, the freedom of expression and right to information have turned into another victims to the pandemic. Globally disinformation and hate speech has expanded little by little crossing borders and provoking fear, stigma and prejudiced against different populations, primary of Asian descent, as well as against victims of the sickness." Read original […]
"Media workers from different media outlets denounced the aggression suffered on Thursday by a media van from outside the C5N channel, when it covered the protest for 'freedom and the republic' in the Federal Capital (of Argentina). A group of protesters gathered to reject the national government's measures in relation to the coronavirus pandemic, attacked […]
"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 […]