Argentine newspaper La Nación took home two awards from the 2020 World Media Awards from the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). It won in the category of Best in Social Media Engagement for "Instagram Stories" and Best Data Visualization for "Los cuadernos de las coimas" (The bribery notebooks). View the complete list of […]
"In a decision released this morning, Judge Alejo Ramos Padilla of the Federal Court of Dolores, in Buenos Aires province, charged Santoro–an investigative journalist at national daily Clarín–with belonging to an 'illicit association dedicated to illegal espionage' and carrying out 'prohibited intelligence actions,' according to the court document, which CPJ reviewed. Last year, the court subpoenaed […]
"The Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA, for its acronym in Spanish) warned Miriam Lewin, the head of the Ombudsman of Audiovisual Communication Services, that the creation of the Observatory of Disinformation and Symbolic Violence (NODIO) implies a clear risk to freedom of expression and the plurality of voices in the country. Faced with the announcement of […]
"The Argentine Journalism Forum expresses its repudiation and concern over the arrest of the journalist Franco Cervera of FM 102.5 Radio Estación, from San Francisco, Córdoba. This Monday, the 21st, he was detained while he was reporting in front of the Border Police Station, Santa Fé, where a group of neighbors asked for the release […]
“This Wednesday morning, the FM Horizonte radio studio in the city of Villa Río Bermejito, in the province of Chaco, was the scene of a very violent situation. At around 11 am, journalist Luis Mancini was conducting his program live when suddenly two men, one of them a city official, invaded the place and gave […]
"In the ruling of the judicial reform project, the ruling party included a clause, promoted by senator Oscar Parrilli, that forces judges to denounce the pressures 'of the media powers.' In view of this, the Asociación de Entidades Periodísticas Argentinas (Association of Argentine Journalistic Entities, or Adepa) considered that it was aimed at 'favoring self-censorship, […]
"Laura Molino, the judge of San Luis, sentenced the journalist Diego Masci today for 'violation of privacy,' to pay $90,000 [Argentinian] pesos in the case initiated by the then Minister of Education of the province as a result of a video going viral in which the official acknowledged having used drugs during a trip to […]
"Media workers from different media outlets denounced the aggression suffered on Thursday by a media van from outside the C5N channel, when it covered the protest for 'freedom and the republic' in the Federal Capital (of Argentina). A group of protesters gathered to reject the national government's measures in relation to the coronavirus pandemic, attacked […]
"Argentina's intelligence agency says the administration of previous President Mauricio Macri spied on more than 400 journalists, and officials have released a document they say is evidence of the claim. An Excel spreadsheet presented to courts on Friday and made public Sunday by the president's office listed 402 journalists who apparently had applied for accreditation […]