"Bolivian cameraman and news editor Sebastián Méndez Sevilla, from the Facebook news program Noticias Villanas, has been behind bars for more than 48 hours on charges of aggravated robbery and criminal association. He was detained by the police, who also tried to incriminate him by planting a homemade explosive to justify his arrest. The incident […]
"The photojournalist Henry Vivanco has been found dead with signs of torture in a house in Huarquillas, in southern Ecuador. The incident is already being investigated. Vivanco's body was found handcuffed, half-naked, face down, and with signs of violence, explained a brother of the victim, Patricio Vivanco, quoted by the newspaper 'El Universo.' Vivanco was […]
"Independent journalist and political prisoner Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca was admitted to the Combinado del Este hospital, in Havana, due to his serious health condition. [...] [His wife Eralidis] Frómeta visited him a few days earlier in prison and said the journalist had 'something similar to tumors' in his head, with a secretion discharge. 'We […]
"Dozens of journalists marched in white on Sunday through Haiti to denounce the murder of eight of their colleagues this year and demand the country's authorities clarify each case. […] The journalists also reminded the authorities of the warning of the Colectivo de Medios en Línea (CMEL), the organizer of the march, that members of […]
"Groups allegedly related to the Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) attacked journalists this Friday [Nov. 11], destroyed press equipment and burned tires at the headquarters of the Chamber of Industry, Commerce, Services and Tourism of Santa Cruz (Cainco). This happened in the middle of the unlocking of the first and second rings of the Santa Cruz […]
"The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, of the UN Human Rights Council, determined that the detention of Venezuelan journalist, Roland Carreño, by the regime of Nicolás Maduro, is arbitrary. In its opinion 48 /2022, it warned that imprisonment is a systematic practice in Venezuela, carried out by the Chavista dictatorship. In October 2020, Carreño was […]
"A photojournalist for the newspaper Correo del Sur in the city of Sucre, Carlos Alberto Rodríguez, was beaten and his mobile phone was taken from him while he was recording the destruction of electoral material at the state university. The National Press Association (ANP, for its initials in Spanish) issued a statement of condemnation against […]
"After a three-day trial and almost ten years after the death of radio broadcaster Valério Luiz, the jury convicted four of the five accused of planning and carrying out the murder. There were declarations for the immediate arrests of Maurício Sampaio, Urbano Malta, Ademá Figueredo and Marcus Vinícius Xavier. The crime happened on July 5, […]
"The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, in its 154th Regular Period of Sessions, will deliberate for sentencing in the cases of Santiago Leguizamón and former prosecutor Alejandro Nissen Pessolani. In the case of journalist Santiago Leguizamón, after years without a response or justice, the complaint against the Paraguayan State in the case was presented to […]
"'El emoji de la tapa' [the front page emoji], a project of the social media team of the newspaper La Capital [of Rosario, Argentina], won the Digital Journalistic Innovation Award 2022. The award recognizes journalistic projects that seek to connect with new audiences and news consumption trends in order to democratize access to information. Google […]
"The colleagues of the Union of Journalists of Paraguay (SPP, by its acronym in Spanish) denounced that 'the Sentencing Court formed by the judges Carmen Silva, as president, Mirna Soto González and Ana Aguirre, as members, absolved Waldemar Pereira Rivas -alias Cachorrão- of guilt and punishment for the murder of journalist Leo Veras, which occurred […]
"On Nov. 4, the Venezuelan association Medianálisis presented the book 'Cómo se vive la desinformación' [How disinformation is experienced], written by a group of journalism students. The book consists of two parts: the first was written by practicing Venezuelan journalists and the second by senior journalism students in different universities in Venezuela. In the text, […]