Audio Bukele: el señor de Los sueños (The man of dreams) Country: U.S. | El Salvador Media outlet: Central | Radio Ambulante Estudios Description: A podcast documentary about how an advertising executive became a politician and convinced a society to grant him unlimited power. By: Silvia Viñas, Eliezer Budasoff, Gabriel Labrador, Camila Segura, Daniel Alarcón, […]
"The work of journalists in Colombia has been pointed out on more than one occasion as a dangerous profession, which is why the Press Freedom Foundation (FLIP, for its acronym in Spanish) constantly monitors violations against this profession in the country; However, attacks against communicators continue to be recorded. The most current case of this […]
“Caracol Radio and the Prisa Group are concerned by the constant attacks that [Colombian] Green Party senator Jonathan Ferney Pulido Hernández, known as Jota Pe Hernández, has uttered or motivated through social networks, against our journalist Orlando Villar Forero, due to two journalistic publications made by this radio station. We consider that these attacks put […]
“A reporting team from [Brazil's] TV Record was shot at by criminals in Belford Roxo, in Baixada Fluminense [in the state of Rio de Janeiro], on Tuesday afternoon [June 11]. Reporter Monique Bittencourt and cameraman Thiago Bessa were in a reporting vehicle that was attacked near the community of Castelar. Both were injured, not seriously, […]
"A motorcyclist shot at the home of the mother of a Paraguayan journalist murdered in February 2023 in the city of Pedro Juan Caballero, bordering Brazil, without causing any injuries or major damage, police sources reported. The incident occurred on Saturday night [June 8] in a neighborhood of the capital of the department of Amambay, […]
"Almost four out of every 10 journalists covering the climate crisis and environment issues have been threatened as a result of their work, with 11% subjected to physical violence, according to groundbreaking new research. A global survey of more than 740 reporters and editors from 102 countries found that 39% of those threatened “sometimes” or “frequently” were […]
Mónica Velásquez Villacís, an Ecuadoran journalist with La Posta, was announced as one of this year's recipients of the annual Courage in Journalism Awards, granted by the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) to honor the remarkable bravery of women and non-binary journalists in their pursuit of reporting. In its announcement, the IWMF highlighted Velásquez Villacís' […]
"Press workers in Argentina protested on Friday [June 7] in defense of freedom of expression and against the censorship and adjustment policies of President Javier Milei's government on the occasion of Journalist's Day in the country. During the protest, more than 2,000 press workers signed a statement in the face of ‘serious affectation to freedom […]
"Honduran journalist Thelma Mejía, news coordinator of Channel 5 in Tegucigalpa, denounced this Thursday [June 6] repeated threats that she has been receiving, which she attributes in part to activists linked to the ruling party, and which the Government condemned. 'That the time has come to "remove my ovaries," that my account is going to […]
"The site Periodistas en el cine (Journalists in the movies), a project created by journalists Federico Poore and Manuel Barrientos, is dedicated to exhaustively reflecting the representation of journalism on the big screen. Based on previous work, their own research and data from national film libraries, the site offers an interactive database that allows you […]
"In the two years since the murders of journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Pereira, the Coalition in Defense of Journalism, of which Abraji is a part, demands speedy justice and State action in the case and the growing violence against journalists and defenders of the environment. Dom Phillips, a British reporter, and […]
“Independent Cuban journalist and activist Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca, who has been in prison since June 2021 and was sentenced in 2022 to five years in prison for continued enemy propaganda, left the island this Wednesday [June 5] for the United States after obtaining humanitarian parole. As EFE was able to confirm through various sources, […]