“The Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA) repudiates the intimidation and physical attacks suffered by journalists and cameramen from Tucumán this Tuesday [Oct. 5], during the coverage of a trial. Mariana Romero (Los Primeros), José Inesta (TN), Javier Cacieccio (El Tucumano), José Romero Silva and Javier Doldan (Telefé Tucumán) received insults and were attacked with stones by […]
"The incorporation of journalists and human rights defenders into the Protection Mechanism for various grievances increased by 88.7 percent so far during the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. At the beginning of the administration, in December 2018, 798 were registered and to date there are a total of 1,506, of which 495 are […]
"Manuel González Reyes, a reporter on the crime beat and administrator of the PM Noticias portal on Facebook, was murdered on Tuesday [Sept. 28], police sources reported. The Attorney General's Office of the State of Morelos (FGEM) specified that the crime occurred on Leandro Valle street, El Miraval neighborhood, in Cuernavaca, and that the person […]
"In an unprecedented effort to achieve justice in the killing of journalists, three leading press freedom groups have established a People’s Tribunal to investigate their murders and hold governments accountable. The Tribunal, a form of grassroots justice, relies on investigations and high-quality legal analysis involving specific cases in three countries. An opening hearing will be […]
"Politicians from opposition parties, businessmen and journalists repudiated on Wednesday, Sept. 23, the statements of the mayor of José C. Paz, Mario Ishii, who issued a harsh warning against the media during an act. Along with President Alberto Fernández and Axel Kicillof, with whom he led the inauguration of a faculty, Ishii said: 'Have mercy […]
"The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism has launched an online form for allegations of attacks against women journalists and gender biases directed at press professionals. Carried out as part of the project to monitor gender attacks against journalists, the initiative aims to establish a channel for the notification of cases that violate freedom of expression […]
"The Bolivian Ombudsman's Office asked the State this Tuesday [Sept. 21] to 'guarantee the work of the media and strengthen the protection of press workers' after the recent attacks on a photojournalist in Santa Cruz and a journalist in Cochabamba." Read original article (in Spanish)
“On the night of Sept. 19, Marcos Efraín Montalvo, a renowned journalist from the [department of] Valle del Cauca, was assassinated with a firearm. The events were recorded by a security camera of the establishment where Montalvo apparently was when he was killed. According to the information that is known so far, the events occurred […]
"As part of its analyses of attacks on the media in Brazil, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a local partner, the Rio de Janeiro Institute for Technology and Society (ITS-Rio), are publishing a survey of the behaviour of users of Twitter, the platform used for most of the attacks on the media and journalists in […]
“Journalist Hellen Meniz denounced that Franco Pomalaya, a member of the Government Palace press team, attacked her when she sought to get some statements from the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo. [...] According to the RPP reporter, when she sought to get Castillo Terrones' statements along with the other media, Franco Pomalaya began to […]
"The Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES) in the company of [the religious NGO] Cristosal presented a complaint on Tuesday [Sept. 14] to the General Inspectorate of Public Security for the increase in hostilities by the National Civil Police (PNC) against journalists on the job. The president of APES César Castro Fagoaga pointed out […]
"Journalists from Guerrero [Mexico] denounced the attacks they suffer while exercising their profession and pointed to authorities from the three levels of government and members of criminal groups that operate in a coordinated manner in different areas of Guerrero, with the collaboration of police forces. This position is the core of a document addressed to […]