"This Mon. Oct. 3, the judge of the 4th Oral Trial Court, Geni Morales, issued an official notice demanding TVN to reveal the sources used in a story on the 'Pacogate,' that is, an [alleged] fraud within [the Chilean police agency] Carabineros. The investigation was broadcasted in detail in the program Informe Especial on Sept. […]
"Francisca Sandoval, journalist for Signal 3 of La Victoria, passed away this Thursday morning [May 12]. The journalist was in serious condition at the Public Assistance Emergency Hospital (ex-Posta Central). This, after being shot in the Meiggs neighborhood [in Santiago, Chile] during a march for Workers' Day (May 1). The journalist entered the hospital on […]
"Three people were shot and wounded by gunshots fired by two individuals against participants in the May Day march called by the Central Clasista de Trabajadores in Santiago de Chile. The injured persons were two women and one man, and one of them, a woman journalist for the community TV station Señal 3 La Victoria, […]
"On July 7, at about 6 p.m., agents with the Chilean Investigative Police shot rubber bullets at [journalists Vicente Rojas López and Felipe García] while they were covering the funeral procession of activist Luisa Toledo Sepúlveda as it passed in front of the Investigative Police headquarters in Santiago, the capital, hitting García in the face […]
“In the midst of a new commemoration of World Press Freedom Day, the main journalism schools in the country issued a letter to the Chilean government to express their deep concern regarding the current state of freedom of expression and of the press in our country. The letter addressed to President Sebastián Piñera emphasizes situations […]
"In 2017, the National Army Intelligence Directorate (DINE, for its acronym in Spanish) asked the Minister of the Court of Appeals, Juan Poblete, to authorize the telephone tapping of a foreign agent who was looking for 'strategic antecedents about the Chilean Army.' The magistrate approved it, without knowing that the cell phone number written in […]
"A press team with Chilean national television (TVN) was shot while reporting in southern Chile, causing serious injuries to a cameraman and loss of vision in one eye, as reported by authorities reported on Sunday (March 28, 2021). Cameraman Esteban Sánchez suffered an ocular flare as a result of the shots he received while moving with […]
"When the mass media advertise themselves, they affirm that they arrive first with the news or that they tell what others are silent about. Instead, they pay little attention to an element that is very present today: the trust they generate in readers. Based on ongoing academic research on news circulation patterns, this column reports […]
"Serious abuses of artistic expressions due to protest, lack of media pluralism in the treatment of social revolt and pressure on media about their work to inform are part of the contents of 'Report 2020: Freedom of Expression in Chile.' [...] This third report classified four categories of irregularities related to the violation of fundamental […]
"As in the rest of the world, trust in news in Latin America has declined in recent years. But survey data from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico show that trust levels vary significantly from one national context to another and can relate to a variety of phenomena, from the shortcomings of journalism itself to social unrest […]