The jury for the Ortega y Gasset Journalism Awards announced the winners of the 41st edition of the prizes, considered the most prestigious in journalism in Spanish. In the best story or investigation category, the winning project was about an Indigenous community on the border between Honduras and Nicaragua, published in Insight Crime. The story […]
"The designer Carmela Hontou sued journalist Nelson Fernández, current director of Subrayado (Canal 10), and the Argentine newspaper La Nación, for the news article in which they reported that she was responsible for infecting more than 20 people with COVID-19 in a wedding held in March 2020, when the disease had just arrived in Uruguay. […]
"Journalist Laura Brugés denounced through her social media that she was fired from the media outlet where she worked after her name came up in the section ' Quién es quién en las mentiras (Who's who in the lies)' [section of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's daily press conference]. Laura Brugés took a stand […]
"Following the resignation on Friday [March 22] of producer Juan Parodi as director of the [Argentine state-owned channel, TV Pública] –less than two months after his appointment on Feb. 5–, yesterday Mateo Baldarenas, director of human resources, and Eugenia Bereciartua, director of administration and finance of Radio y Televisión Argentina (RTA), also resigned. […] According […]
"The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has joined eight other press freedom organizations in urging Guatemala’s leaders to address the concerning decline in the country’s press freedom and its significance for democracy. In a statement issued ahead of the meeting between Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday, March 25, […]
“On March 7, the Copesa media conglomerate – which includes media outlets such as La Tercera and La Cuarta – filed a lawsuit against Google before the Court for the Defense of Free Competition (TDLC, for its acronym in Spanish), for 'abuse of a quasi-monopoly position' in the online search engine and digital advertising markets. […]
“The report 'Cuba: resistance to censorship' by ARTICLE 19 seeks to account for the state of freedom of expression in the year 2023 and those rights associated with it, demonstration, information and assembly, taking into account both the action of State as well as that of journalists, activists and citizens in general, in the midst […]
"The Pulitzer Center is opening a new call for rainforest grant applications. We invite journalists, editors, and independent media organizations to submit proposals on Innovative Reporting: Mapping Transparency and Governance on Rainforest Issues. During this historic election year around the globe, it’s important to take note of how these events may impact the world’s vital rainforests. […]
UPDATE: Haitian journalist Lucien Jura has since been released after being abducted. ORIGINAL: "[Lucien] Jura was abducted from his home in Pétion-Ville on the outskirts of the capital, Port-au-Prince, on Monday, March 18, according to news reports. [...] On Tuesday [March 19], Jura confirmed his kidnapping in a brief phone call with the secretary-general of […]
“In its report on its on-site visit to Bolivia in 2023, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) observed division, claims of lack of representation, accusations of bias and stigmatization in the journalism profession. On Wednesday (March 13), the organization presented its 222-page report on the on-site visit of its commissioners to Bolivia between March […]