"Award-winning journalist Emilia Díaz-Struck has been named the incoming executive director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, an association of more than 240 investigative journalism nonprofits throughout the world. Díaz-Struck will join GIJN as editor-at-large in mid-August, and then become executive director in September at the biennial conference of the network in Gothenburg, Sweden. [...] […]
"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) on Friday [June 9] urged the presidents of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and Argentina, Alberto Fernández, to 'stop the stigmatizing discourse' against journalists and the media and said that 'disapproval from power can encourage violence against the press.' [...] Five Colombian journalists from RCN Radio, Blu Radio and Caracol Radio […]
"The National Academy of Journalism (ANP, by its Spanish acronym) [in Argentina] awarded the Pluma de Honor [Pen of Honor] prize to Germán de los Santos, for his investigations on drug trafficking, in a ceremony held at the Augusto Raúl Cortazar Hall of the National Library. It also made a special recognition to Graciela Fernández […]
"Dozens of communicators from Chiapas marched yesterday [June 7] in Tuxtla Gutiérrez to demand justice for the murders and aggressions against journalists, and that the practice of their informative work be guaranteed. The demonstrators walked through the streets of the state capital and concluded with a rally in front of the government palace, seat of […]
"The Press and Society Institute of Venezuela (IPYS, by its Spanish acronym) updated its study 'Atlas del Silencio' (Atlas of Silence), which delves into the information conditions prevailing in the country. According to the most recent edition of this research, at least 7 million 25 thousand 427 Venezuelans (21% of the population) live in information […]
"The Observatory of Press Freedom Violations in the Amazon of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reported that there were 62 cases of press freedom violations in the region between July 2022 and May 2023. The data began to be compiled following the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous activist Bruno Pereira in the municipality […]
"The [Colombian] Foundation for Press Freedom (Flip, by its Spanish acronym) rejected the acquittal decision of a judge who, on May 30, found Ronal Rivera Rodríguez, former officer of the Special Intelligence Group G3 of the then Administrative Department of Security (DAS, by its Spanish acronym), not guilty for the aggravated torture of which journalist […]
"The government of Nayib Bukele has intensified its persecution against journalists. This Tuesday [June 6] the Salvadoran police chief, Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, said that reporters who denounced and investigated the secret negotiations between the government of then President Mauricio Funes and the maras, the gangs that spread terror in the Central American country and controlled […]
Journalists from Chile, El Salvador, Mexico, and Nicaragua are part of the latest cohort of Report for the World, an international journalism program that connects local newsrooms with talented journalists to report on little-known issues around the world. 'Fifteen journalists are joining this latest cohort, bringing Report for the World’s current corps size to 45 […]
“The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression (RELE, by its Spanish acronym) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) denounces the situation of violence against journalists in the Americas and urges States of the region to investigate the facts exhaustively and independently, and to punish these crimes in an exemplary manner. […]