"The Government, through the controller [of the public media system] Diego Chaher, ordered journalists and photographers from Agencia Télam to return cameras and equipment they were assigned to complete their daily tasks. The deadline is this Friday, May 10, the day of the end of the voluntary withdrawal program. The provision, which has Chaher's signature, […]
“The multi-state news channel teleSUR, headquartered in Venezuela, denounced Monday [May 6] that its broadcasting on Argentina's Open Digital Television (TDA, by its Spanish acronym) was cancelled. 'The media censorship against teleSUR in Argentina represents a serious attack on the right to information, by limiting access to dissident voices, restricting the plurality of information, undermining […]
“Argentine President Javier Milei and his administration must immediately refrain from attacking press freedom, stigmatizing journalists, and allow journalists to do their jobs freely and without restrictions, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Tuesday. During his first 100 days in office, a report by FOPEA, a local press freedom organization, found that four out […]
"The journalistic environment of Santa Cruz, [Argentina], especially its capital Río Gallegos, felt a strong shock today [April 17] after it was reported that journalist Huyo Moyano, recognized for the Contracara program of the station Radio News, received an envelope with two bullets inside as a death threat. The incident was recorded by a security […]
“Libertarian influencer Manuel Jorge Gorostiaga, publicly known as Emmanuel Danann, was convicted [by Argentine courts] for systematically harassing journalist Marina Abiuso on social networks. He must carry out 40 hours of community service and participate in a training workshop against gender violence. This is his second conviction: last month he received another for discrimination. It […]
"Argentine authorities must thoroughly investigate the death threats received by journalist Julio Ernesto López on his father’s cell phone, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Friday [April 12, 2024]. According to an April 5 post on X, formerly Twitter, by the Association of Argentine Press Companies (ADEPA), a professional association, and a complaint López […]
The News and Opinion University Agency (AUNO) of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the National University of Lomas de Zamora, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, will offer the seminar "English for Journalists," aimed at journalists who want to strengthen their journalistic skills in English. The program will be held every Wednesday in April at 6:00 […]
"The Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA, by its Spanish acronym) expressed its solidarity with a journalist from [digital news outlet] iProfesional, Andrés Sanguinetti, 'who was threatened by a businessman with a civil and criminal lawsuit if he does not retract and remove a publication.' [...] 'The iProfesional colleague received a letter from the businessman Pablo Otero, […]
"Following the resignation on Friday [March 22] of producer Juan Parodi as director of the [Argentine state-owned channel, TV Pública] –less than two months after his appointment on Feb. 5–, yesterday Mateo Baldarenas, director of human resources, and Eugenia Bereciartua, director of administration and finance of Radio y Televisión Argentina (RTA), also resigned. […] According […]
"In the time that Javier Milei has been in office, four out of 10 aggressions to the press have had the president or his ministers as main characters, according to the data of the survey carried out by the Freedom of Expression Monitoring of the Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA, for its Spanish acronym). The figure […]
"TN journalist Nelson Castro, who was sent as a correspondent to Rosario [Argentina] to cover the wave of drug violence, was threatened with death this morning [March 11] along with his team as soon as he set foot in the city of Santa Fe. 'Tell him that if he reaches Seguí and Oroño we will […]
"Gender violence online is a problem that increases year after year and women with a public voice, especially journalists, gender editors, politicians, activists and human rights defenders, are the main recipients. Therefore, it is key to address it responsibly, to prevent it from reproducing, to collaborate to prevent it and to work to eradicate it. […]