"The US Supreme Court on Thursday [May 11] ruled against a group of Puerto Rico journalists who were seeking documents from the island’s financial oversight board, saying that the board is protected from such information requests by sovereign immunity. The case, ‘Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo,’ asked […]
"The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) condemned the intensification of 'repression' by the Daniel Ortega regime against the media in Nicaragua on Thursday [May 11]. The regime's actions have resulted in the detention of three journalists since last April in the Central American country. In a statement, the organization, based in Miami, urged the international community […]
"Journalist Gerardo Torres Rentería was shot to death by a group of armed men on the night of May 11, 2023, inside his private home located on 2nd Street in the Icacos neighborhood, a few meters from Avenida Costera Miguel Áleman and the main entrance of the facilities of the Eighth Naval Region in Acapulco, […]
"The alliance that the Gabo Foundation and Google News Initiative (GNI) established in 2019 is being extended in 2023 with the Red Antena [Anttena Network], a project focused on strengthening skills and providing tools to those responsible for digital native media in Latin America. (...) Among the topics to be addressed in these activities will […]
"We reject and regret the murder of Luis Gabriel Pereira, journalist and director of the digital news outlet Notiorense, in Ciénaga de Oro, Córdoba [Colombia]. The crime took place on the afternoon of May 9, in the Julio Manzur neighborhood. Two men on a motorcycle shot the journalist. Luis Gabriel Pereira, 25, had only been […]
"Almost eight years after the crime, relatives of Mexican photojournalist Rubén Espinosa and the other four women murdered in what is known as the Narvarte Case demanded progress from the Attorney General's Office of Mexico City, especially in determining the motive and identifying the masterminds. At a press conference held at the Mexico City Human […]
"The organization Espacio Público denounced this May 3 that in 'at least' 13 states of Venezuela there are no news outlets with an independent editorial line. 'Using direct and indirect means, the Government has reduced the already depressed Venezuelan media ecosystem. Today there are 13 states that do not have access to news outlets with […]
"Journalists from The Intercept will have to testify today [May 9] before the São Paulo Civil Police in an investigation carried out at the request of the Universal Church of Edir Macedo. 'The Church of Mr. Edir is furious that our story revealed secret documents indicating a possible money-laundering operation that, in just five years, […]
The Nicaraguan journalist Hazel Zamora Hernández, news director of a local program and collaborator of Channel 10 television in Nicaragua's southern Caribbean, was detained on Friday, May 5, by the National Police, according to the website Alertas Libertad de Prensa Nicaragua. The journalist was detained by police while traveling with her children in a public […]
"The cries for freedom broke out again in Cuba on the night of Sunday, May 7. [...] Slogans already used during the 11J [July 11th] movement, in 2021, and during last year's summer protests were once again heard loud in Caimanera, an eastern municipality located next to the Guantánamo naval base. Hundreds of people took […]
"Two days after the publication of an investigation that stopped a campaign based on slanderous disinformation against news website IDL-R director, Gustavo Gorriti and newspaper La República director Gustavo Mohme, the ultra-right-wing groups known as 'La Pestilencia' [the Pestilence] violently attacked the offices of IDL-Reporteros on Friday night [May 5], which represented the fourth attack […]
"During 2022, 88 attacks on journalism and freedom of expression were recorded in Argentina, according to the Annual Report of the Freedom of Expression Monitoring carried out every year by the Argentine Journalism Forum (Fopea, by its Spanish acronym). The figure marked a decrease of 18.52% in relation to 2021, when 108 cases were recorded. […]