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Argentina: Journalist Griselda Blanco, who had received threats after denouncing alleged police abuses, found dead

"Journalist Griselda Blanco, who had revealed [alleged] police abuse in the province of Corrientes, was found beaten and hanged, police sources in Argentina reported Sunday [May 21, 2023]. Her ex-partner was arrested Sunday on suspicion of femicide, but the family links the crime to Blanco's revelations. She was 45 years old. [...] Lautaro Cesani, 25, […]

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Attacks by drug traffickers is a new threat to journalists in Argentina, warns FOPEA

"During 2022, 88 attacks on journalism and freedom of expression were recorded in Argentina, according to the Annual Report of the Freedom of Expression Monitoring carried out every year by the Argentine Journalism Forum (Fopea, by its Spanish acronym). The figure marked a decrease of 18.52% in relation to 2021, when 108 cases were recorded. […]

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Julia Gavarrete, from El Salvador, and Martín Caparros, from Argentina, among the winners of the Ortega y Gasset Awards

"The media El Faro and La Vanguardia, the photojournalist Santi Palacios and the writer and journalist Martín Caparrós have been the winners of the 40th edition of the Ortega y Gasset Journalism Awards, as announced by the jury, meeting this Wednesday at the headquarters of El País in Madrid. The Ortega y Gasset award in […]

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National Academy of Journalism of Argentina expressed its ‘absolute rejection’ of the ‘siege’ against Marina Abiuso

"The National Academy of Journalism expressed this Thurs. (Feb. 3) its 'absolute rejection' to 'any kind of escrache' against people in public life by echoing the situation of TN journalist Marina Abiuso, who closed her Twitter account. [...] Abiuso, journalist and gender editor of TN channel, denounced suffering harassment in her social media that led […]

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Argentina: Journalists' association condemns second attack on a TV channel in two weeks

"A new shooting attack at the offices of Televisión Litoral in the city of Rosario, Argentina -the second attack in two weeks- was condemned on Dec. 29, 2022 by the main news organizations in the country. This happened in the context of an environment of insecurity related to drug trafficking that affects the city. 'This […]

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Argentina: 'Memoji' that tells the news wins Innovation Award from Google and FOPEA

"'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 […]

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'We're going to kill journalists': Threat found in TV channel in Rosario, Argentina

"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 […]

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Argentina: Prison for gunman in attack against photojournalist and protesters

"The justice system of Neuquén, in the southwest of Argentina, has placed in custody the attacker who shot at press workers and wounded a woman during municipal workers protests who were demanding back pay. The Argentine Association of Graphic Reporters (ARGRA, for its Spanish acronym) issued a statement contextualizing and condemning what happened. The statement […]

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Argentina: FOPEA warned before the UN about the use of the Judiciary to attack journalists

"For the first time in its 20 years, [news organization] FOPEA presented before the United Nations (UN) a warning about attacks from the political power towards journalism that affect freedom of expression in Argentina. Specifically, three cases of judicial harassment of journalists in [Argentina] were highlighted. These relate to the persecutions suffered by journalists Irene […]

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Open call for Media Party, an innovative media conference in Latin America

“More than 2,500 entrepreneurs, journalists, developers and designers from around the world will gather to 'think about the future of the media industry' at the tenth edition of the #MediaParty, one of the most important innovation conferences in Latin America to be held on August 25, 26 and 27 at Ciudad Cultural Konex, Buenos Aires, […]

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Argentina: FOPEA celebrates court ruling in favor of journalist Irene Benito

“The Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA, for its acronym in Spanish) celebrates the ruling of the Tucumán Courts that establishes that journalist Irene Benito was being unfairly criminalized. The ruling of the criminal judge Alicia Freidenberg dismisses the complaint filed by Alfredo Falú, a lawyer and public official who had been investigated by Benito and the […]

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Argentina: La Nación awarded best digital journalism project in Latin America

[Argentine news outlet] "La Nación" won first prize in the category Best Digital Journalism Project in Latin America at the Digital Media Awards Latam 2022, an award granted by the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). The special "A Fondo: Yeah, the neighborhood, drugs and luxury. This is what rappers (traperos) sound like and talk […]