"Since February 24, dozens of employees of ICLEP, a Cuban press freedom organization that also publishes seven free newspapers in the country, have been unable to connect to the internet on their mobile phones, according to press reports and Normando Hernández, ICLEP’s general manager, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app. At least 42 journalists […]
"On Feb. 24, an unidentified man went to [Wilih] Narváez’s house in Managua, the capital [of Nicaragua], and yelled at the journalist’s mother and told her he knew that it was the home of a journalist from Canal 10, the broadcaster where until recently Narváez had worked as a reporter and host, according to the […]
"On Feb. 24, an unidentified man went to [Wilih] Narváez’s house in Managua, the capital [of Nicaragua], and yelled at the journalist’s mother and told her he knew that it was the home of a journalist from Canal 10, the broadcaster where until recently Narváez had worked as a reporter and host, according to the […]
"By using WhatsApp Correio is responding to a national trend: in 2019, one forecast proclaimed Brazil as the app’s second largest market after India with 99 million monthly active users. Other estimates put this estimated audience at 120 million. The trend goes beyond Brazil though. Research suggests WhatsApp is most frequently used by people in […]
Brazilian fact-checking outlet Agência Lupa won Best in Show (small newsroom) in the global Digital News Design competition from the Society for News Design (SND). The prize is for a reporting project on COVID-19 deaths in the country. SND reported: "One judge noted: 'Media outlets have struggled with expressing the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic in […]
“Social issues were highlighted by many of the winners of the XXXVIII edition of the King of Spain International Journalism Awards, with social, gender and human rights topics leading the works selected by the jury as the most outstanding this year. A jury made up of prominent international journalism professionals today designated the winners of […]
"People in a number of countries in the Americas faced violence and other abuses in the enforcement of harsh COVID-19 lockdowns. [...] Freedom of expression suffered elsewhere in the region. Cuban authorities unleashed a wave of intimidation, arbitrary detentions, and illegal house arrests against independent journalists and a group of dissident artists with whom the […]
"People in a number of countries in the Americas faced violence and other abuses in the enforcement of harsh COVID-19 lockdowns. [...] Freedom of expression suffered elsewhere in the region. Cuban authorities unleashed a wave of intimidation, arbitrary detentions, and illegal house arrests against independent journalists and a group of dissident artists with whom the […]
"Under the Daniel Ortega regime, the practice of journalism has become increasingly difficult in Nicaragua. If this was already a difficult profession, now the lack of access to information, the constant harassment, the consummate confiscation of media outlets, the murders of journalists in full exercise of their work, and the trials and sentences of Nicaraguan […]
The One Free Press Coalition, which publishes a monthly list of the "10 Most Urgent" press freedom cases around the world, focused on women journalists for March 2021 in anticipation of International Women's Day (March 8). On its list were journalists from Mexico and Guatemala. Among those on the list is Mexican columnist and reporter […]
The One Free Press Coalition, which publishes a monthly list of the "10 Most Urgent" press freedom cases around the world, focused on women journalists for March 2021 in anticipation of International Women's Day (March 8). On its list were journalists from Mexico and Guatemala. Among those on the list is Mexican columnist and reporter […]
"It’s no secret that Trumpism lives on in Latin America, where leaders with authoritarian tendencies, on both the left and the right, have been borrowing from Trump’s populist playbook — from embracing his most radical and toxic strategies to discredit elections to habitually blasting critics on Twitter. But perhaps nowhere is Trump’s poisonous impact more […]