"In August 2023, newspaper El Nacional of [the southern Ecuadoran city] Machala, founded in 1964, ceased publication. After the closure of the newspaper, 27 former employees and retired workers did not receive their severance payments, nor answers from the shareholders. Now, with a ruling of the [regulatory body] Superintendency of Companies, the company that owned […]
"A letter sent by UN women rapporteurs to the Brazilian State calls for measures to protect women journalists who cover cases of sexual crimes and denounces the conviction of reporter Schirlei Alves. For them, the defamation proceedings against the journalist need to be annulled. Schirlei Alves was sentenced in the first instance to one year […]
"This Wednesday (April 3), the Amnesty Committee of the Chamber of Deputies in Brasília unanimously approved the recognition of Clarice Herzog as a political amnesty. The widow of journalist Vladimir Herzog, tortured and killed on Oct. 25, 1975 by agents of the former DOI-CODI (Department of Information Operations - Center for Internal Defense Operations) in […]
“In 2024, the Roche Prize for Health Journalism returns to celebrate the best stories and coverage focused on health and science issues from Latin America, Spain and the United States, in Spanish and Portuguese. [...] The call for this twelfth edition will be open until Monday, June 10, 2024, but the recommendation is not to […]
“Seven months ago, Agência Pública was forced by the court to withdraw a report published in June 2023 about the president of the [Brazilian] Chamber of Deputies Arthur Lira. [...] This Wednesday, April 3, the 6th Civil Chamber of the Court of Justice of the Federal District and the Territories judged on the merits of […]
"The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will prepare a report on the growing exile of journalists in the Americas, highlighting its impact on the right to freedom of expression and press, access to public information and democracy. The objective of this report is […]
“ARTICLE 19 Office for Mexico and Central America and the Network in Memory and Fight of Murdered or Missing Journalists commemorate María Elena Ferral, a journalist from Veracruz, and renew their demands for justice for her and her family four years after her murder. […] Although the Attorney General's Office of the State of Veracruz […]
"After the multiple controversies and clashes he has had with journalists and media, this Monday [April 1] the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, attacked Andrés Oppenheimer, CNN presenter, for the controversy that arose after his counterpart in Argentina, Javier Milei, criticized him in an interview that CNN en Español broadcast on Sunday [March […]
"Venezuelan journalist Orlando Avendaño, whom the Attorney General of the Republic Tarek William Saab accused of 'instigating hatred,' denounced that officials of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin, for its acronym in Spanish) raided his parents' home in Venezuela. 'Around noon this Monday, April 1, a group of officials from the Sebin broke into my […]
“Migratory movements in the hemisphere are impacting journalistic coverage and content, which is why the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has added a new category to its journalistic excellence contest this year. The ‘Claudio Paolillo Migration Journalism’ award is a new genre in the 2024 contest, which has already begun to receive applications. […] The […]
The News and Opinion University Agency (AUNO) of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the National University of Lomas de Zamora, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, will offer the seminar "English for Journalists," aimed at journalists who want to strengthen their journalistic skills in English. The program will be held every Wednesday in April at 6:00 […]
"The Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA, by its Spanish acronym) expressed its solidarity with a journalist from [digital news outlet] iProfesional, Andrés Sanguinetti, 'who was threatened by a businessman with a civil and criminal lawsuit if he does not retract and remove a publication.' [...] 'The iProfesional colleague received a letter from the businessman Pablo Otero, […]