“Journalist Francisco Augusto Ramírez Padilla has been missing since April 30, 2021; His family, media and journalists from Oaxaca have requested help locating him through social networks The Oaxaca State Attorney General's Office issued a file with information on his disappearance, from the Unit for the Search for Disappeared and Unlocated Persons." Read original article […]
The Covid-19 pandemic had a devastating impact on the media, the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) lamented on Friday in preparation for World Press Freedom Day on May 3. The human cost of the pandemic is particularly high: at least 1,200 journalists have died from the novel coronavirus. Journalists are engaged in a profession that is […]
"Judge Marcelo Augusto Oliveira, from the 41st Civil Court of the TJ-SP (Court of Justice of São Paulo), determined in a preliminary ruling that Aos Fatos can no longer mention that the Oeste Magazine conveyed disinformation. Injunctive relief granted in favor of the publication regards two checks: one about distortions in data from the monitoring […]
"The Regional Forum for Latin America and the Caribbean 'Promotion of information as a common good' will be held tomorrow, April 30, within the framework of the global event organized by UNESCO in commemoration of World Press Freedom Day. 2021. The latter includes a program of activities that will begin on April 30 and end […]
“Workers of different media outlets in Cochabamba [Bolivia] protested this morning [April 27] demanding respect for freedom of expression, the Print Law and in rejection of the injunction that a judge made to 13 media outlets to provide information at the request of lawyer Jhasmani Torrico. [...] 'This mobilization has the objective of reminding the […]
“With the support of UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has begun evaluating the implementation and effectiveness of mechanisms for protecting journalists in four Latin American countries, with the aim of helping to improve such mechanisms throughout the region. Nearly 80% of the murders of journalists in Latin […]
"Over the past five years, IWMF sent 171 grantees and 85 recipients of year-long fellowships for local journalists to report stories from different countries throughout Latin America [as part of the Adelante reporting initiative.] The program ended this past February. IWMF Executive Director Elisa Lees Muñoz said in an impact report that Adelante’s goal was […]
"Over the past five years, IWMF sent 171 grantees and 85 recipients of year-long fellowships for local journalists to report stories from different countries throughout Latin America [as part of the Adelante reporting initiative.] The program ended this past February. IWMF Executive Director Elisa Lees Muñoz said in an impact report that Adelante’s goal was […]
"At about 8:30 p.m. on April 20, an unidentified man aboard a motorcycle shot and slightly injured [Luis Carlos] Ayala, who works as a freelance photojournalist and often contributes to the independent news website Colombia Informa, in the western city of Cali, according to news reports and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ via messaging […]
“Seventy-three percent of women journalists have suffered online harassment related to their work, according to a pioneering study released by UNESCO on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Conference, which will be held starting April 29 in Namibia. 'Online violence, often in the form of coordinated misogynistic attacks, ranges from hate speech to threats […]
"The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji, for its acronym in Portuguese) has mapped 100 journalists blocked by public authorities on Twitter since it started to monitor these cases continuously, in September 2020. There are 196 blocks to the profiles of the President of the Republic, of ministers, deputies, governors and other authorities. The reasons […]
“The anti-money laundering prosecutor [of Peru] Yovana Mori García, appointed as the person in charge of the Panama Papers Case in 2016, threatened Ojo Público with resorting to the Judiciary to request the seizure of documents related to the journalistic investigation into the law firm Mossack Fonseca, which originated as a collaborative effort led by […]