"It is a cause for concern that one year after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights announced the sentence in which it condemned the Colombian State in the case of journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima, the Attorney General's Office is the entity that has made the least effort to comply with the Court's ruling and, thus, […]
"The Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program (EJCP) at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY is proud to welcome 35 journalism entrepreneurs from around the world — based in 19 different countries — to the fifth cohort of the program. This 100-day online program, which begins on Oct. 25, aims to help creators develop newsletters, podcasts, […]
"Another journalist became a victim of violence in Colombia. Rafael Emiro Moreno, director of the digital news outlet Voces de Córdoba and an activist in his home state, was murdered in the city of Montelíbano (Córdoba), Colombia, on the night of Oct. 16, 2022. Moreno was killed by hitmen in the 27 de Julio neighborhood […]
"Registration for the 7th edition of the Brazilian Conference on Journalism of Data and Digital Methods (Coda.Br 2022) is open. Aimed at journalists and civil society organizations, the event will be held in a hybrid way: online from Oct. 31 to Nov. 3 and in person on Nov. 5 and Nov. 6 at ESPM in […]
"September marked a new record for assaults on women journalists [in Brazil] in 2022: 28 alerts were registered throughout the month, almost one per day. The figure represents a third of the total number of cases against women journalists registered throughout the year and an increase of 47.7% compared to September 2021. The data results […]
"Beyond conventional visualizations, in what other ways can we mobilize the political and affective potential of feminicide data? This November, commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Data Against Feminicide invites you to approach other ways to communicate and disseminate feminicide data, focusing on the visibilities and artistic practices that have […]
"A poster with threats against the media hung on the headquarters of a television channel in Rosario (central Argentina) on Tues. Oct. 10 with. This TV channel denounces day by day the situation of violence the city is going through. The poster displayed on the front of the Telefe Rosario channel included phrases such as 'We're […]
“The police said the 23-year-old [Edwin Josué] Andino was murdered by two gunmen ‘wearing uniforms similar to those of the military police.’ They went to his home where he lived with his father in Villafranca, a western suburb of Tegucigalpa, on the morning of Oct. 10. They seized Andino and his father, placed adhesive tape […]
"The Gabo Foundation, an institution created by journalist and Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Gabriel García Márquez, announced the winners of the Gabo Award 2022, the most important recognition of journalism in Spanish and Portuguese, in its five competition categories: Text, Coverage, Image, Photography, and Audio. [...] 'El polizón y el capitán,' a chronicle by […]
"Officials of state security forces, such as the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB, by its Spanish acronym), are preventing journalists, reporters and press workers from accessing the disaster area in Tejerías, Aragua state (central Venezuela), which was declared an emergency due to floods. Constant rains during the afternoon and night of Sat. Oct. 8, and the […]
"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) condemned the attack against a television channel and the threats against a newspaper in Ecuador, which ‘seek to intimidate the practice of journalism.’ The organization called on authorities to promptly investigate these acts of violence in order to identify and prosecute those responsible. Two individuals on a motorcycle were […]
"Fidel Castro had a predominant place in Abraham Jiménez Enoa's early years. His grandfather worked as a bodyguard for El Comandante, as well as for Che Guevara. Jiménez Enoa's relatives were high-ranking military officers in the Cuban government, and he lived a comfortable life in the heart of the communist system. [...] But Jiménez Enoa, now […]