"Aos Fatos launched today, August 10th, the public facade of an unprecedented real-time monitoring system built to fight disinformation. Radar Aos Fatos is a monitor that detects potentially misleading content that is circulating on social platforms by topics. Through its automated system, publications are swept by an algorithm that maps language patterns and classifies them […]
"Armed men shot at the office of the newspaper Diario de Iguala, Tuesday morning. This attack occured two days after the killing of reporter Pablo Morrugares Parraguirre. According to the police report, around 11 a.m., armed men shot the building's facade and gate." Read original article (Spanish)
"The Journalistic Ethics Observatory (objETHOS, in its acronym in Portuguese) is launching the COVID-19 Guide to Ethical Coverage, a free publication for journalists. The guide was based on some of the main manuals and lists of recommendations that have been circulating internationally since the beginning of the pandemic." Read the full article and download the […]
"Journalist Alex Braga was beaten up on the night of 23.20.2020, after having his car hit by another vehicle, in the Flores neighborhood, in Manaus (AM). He is the host of the news show Amazonas Diário, from Grupo Diário de Comunicação (GDC), in which he criticizes the state government." Read the full article (in Portuguese).
"According to a survey by the National Federation of Journalists (FENAJ), there were 3,930 journalists that work under a formal contract for newsrooms, in 16 unions in the country, who had their salaries and work hours reduced during the pandemic. Another 81 journalists had their work contracts suspended and 205 were laid off." Read original […]
"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 […]