"A journalist has filed a sexual harassment police report at the police station of the Beira-Rio stadium [Porto Alegre-Brazil] against the employee who serves as the mascot of Internacional [Porto Alegre soccer team]. The incident allegedly took place shortly after Inter scored the third goal against Grêmio [soccer team]. According to Gisele Kumpel, who works […]
"The Association of Professional Journalists of the State of São Paulo, together with the National Federation of Journalists and the Brazilian Press Association filed, on Fri, Feb. 23, before the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil, a request for disclosure of the names of journalists who were illegally spied on by the so-called 'Abin parallel.' The […]
"Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador criticized YouTube on Sunday night [Feb. 25] after the tech company removed the video of a news conference in which the leader revealed the private telephone number of the New York Times' Mexico bureau chief. The platform said the video had violated their policies on harassment and cyberbullying. It […]
"Journalists and news executives based in the Western Hemisphere and press associations or news services that serve such organizations can be nominated for this award. Columbia University School of Journalism launches the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes, which recognize journalists and news organizations with a distinguished body of work that has contributed to Inter-American understanding. Honorees […]
"Mexico's freedom of information body INAI said on Thursday it was initiating an investigation after the country's president disclosed the phone number of a New York Times journalist looking into alleged ties between his allies and drug cartels. The disclosure took place during President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's daily news conference. [...] 'This is a […]
“A Guatemalan judge suspended the hearing [on Feb. 21] in which it was to be decided whether journalist José Rubén Zamora goes to a second trial for allegedly obstructing an investigation against him for which he was already sentenced to six years in prison. The head of the Special Prosecutor's Office Against Corruption, Rafael Curruchiche, […]
“On Wednesday [Feb. 21], the Ecuadoran prosecutor's office announced terrorism charges against someone with the alias 'Negro Willie' as the main suspect in the violent armed occupation of a television channel in the coastal city of Guayaquil on Jan. 9. The public prosecutor's office, in a statement, indicated that the suspect identified as William Joffre […]
“The Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES, for its acronym in Spanish) denounces the progression -- despite the legal barriers that protect journalism -- of the judicial process filed by businessman Yakov Fauster against media outlet El Diario de Hoy (EDH) and against journalist Jorge Beltrán Luna. This is a case that began in […]
“Covering Climate Now invites journalists everywhere to submit work for the 2024 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards, presented with the Columbia Journalism Review. Now in its fourth year, the CCNow Awards program has become an industry standard for excellence. Last year, the awards team received nearly 1,100 entries, from 29 countries on six continents. Winners […]
"The Cuban Institute for Freedoms of Expression and Press (ICLEP, by its acronym in Spanish) denounced a cyber attack on its website, which occurred on Wednesday [Feb. 14]. […] The non-profit, founded in 2012, reported that the perpetrators managed to breach the server's security protocol, infiltrate files, change the configuration and supplant the website with […]