"The regime of Daniel Ortega has stripped another 94 people of Nicaraguan nationality this Wed. (Feb. 15). Among those affected are writers Sergio Ramírez, Cervantes Prize winner, and Gioconda Belli, both in exile; Nicaraguan journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro; writer and feminist Sofía Montenegro; activist Azahalea Solís; Bishop Silvio Báez, one of the most critical voices […]
"(...) Internews’ Earth Journalism Network and the Internews Americas team are offering media grants to organizations from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, who seek to strengthen the capacity of journalists and media organizations to produce high-quality, factual, and engaging public information on the impacts of conservation crimes, their association with climate change, and viable solutions […]
"[These journalists] don't have a newsroom or big production equipment. They combine traditional journalism formulas with new ways of telling what is happening in their spot. They do not follow a script, because over time they've learned empirically what works best for effective communication. On the street they are known by their neighbors and followers. […]
"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) denounced the continued abuse of defamation lawsuits against Panamanian media and journalists and the preventive seizure of their assets as mechanisms of intimidation and gagging to curb critical journalism. The IAPA endorsed the recent expressions of its regional vice-presidency in Panama, the National Council of Journalists (CNP, by its […]
"The Investigative Journalism Fellowship Program of the Dialoga Network of Journalists for Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Rule of Law Program for Latin America of the Konrad Adenauer KAS Foundation announced the selection of three journalists, among more than 500 applicants from the region, who will be part of the […]
"The relationship between literature and journalism will be the focus of many of the activities programmed for the International Festival of Literature in Spanish (FILE, for its Spanish acronym). From Mar. 3 to Mar.12, in various cities of Extremadura (Spain), FILE will bring together 90 participants, including writers, journalists, essayists , poets, among other cultural […]
"In the past 20 years, at least 285 radio stations have been closed in Venezuela under orders of the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel, by its Spanish acronym). Conatel alleges, according to those affected, improper administrative decisions, while defenders of freedom of expression describe those actions as arbitrary. Carlos Correa, director of the NGO Espacio Público, […]
"On Feb. 7, two journalists from [the Mexican state of] Chiapas, Verónica Vega Cisneros, host of Televisa Chiapas, and Daniela Grajales, host of TV Azteca Chiapas, were assaulted by the same man while covering a story related to the death of a child in a private educational institution in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. [...] The man […]
"Suspected gangs have kidnapped another Haitian journalist as colleagues demanded his release, a government office announced Wednesday (Feb. 8). The journalist was identified by the Office of Citizen Protection as Jean Thony Lorthé, who works for Radio Vision 2000. Local media reported that Lorthé was headed to a funeral with two other people including his […]
"The Government of Nicaragua has surprised this Thursday with news of enormous repercussion. The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, which exercises a policy of widespread repression in the Central American country, has released 222 of the 245 political prisoners in the country without notifying their families. Immediately, they have banished them in a […]
"Campaigns to raise awareness of society and public agencies - especially the security forces - about the serious situation of violence that affects press professionals in Brazil are among the measures announced by the National Secretary of Justice, Augusto Arruda Botelho, for the newly created Observatory of Violence Against Journalists and Communicators. Conceived by the […]
"The June 2022 murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian expert on the Amazon’s Indigenous, drew the world’s attention to the risk runs by those who shed light on rights violations in the Brazilian Amazon. But press freedom is violated every day in this region, and in a variety of ways […]