"We reject and regret the murder of Luis Gabriel Pereira, journalist and director of the digital news outlet Notiorense, in Ciénaga de Oro, Córdoba [Colombia]. The crime took place on the afternoon of May 9, in the Julio Manzur neighborhood. Two men on a motorcycle shot the journalist. Luis Gabriel Pereira, 25, had only been […]
"The Foundation for Press Freedom and the Journalists' Circle of Bogota presented the 'Survey on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information' in which they surveyed 585 journalists and 15 columnists to study the characteristics of the media in which they work, their self-criticism, the environment for freedom of expression, and aggressions towards their work. […]
“'If you have to kill me, go ahead and kill me. But I say it to your face: you won’t silence me.’ Colombian journalist Rafael Moreno defied his detractors and predicted his own demise with these words, spoken in a 37-minute Facebook live on July 21, 2022. […] For more than half an hour, the […]
"On the night of April 11, former senator [and former president] Álvaro Uribe wrote on his Twitter account a correction about the accusations against journalist Daniel Coronell: 'He is not a drug trafficker,' he said. This post came hours after the Prosecutor's Office had summoned Uribe and Coronell to a proceeding to transfer an accusation […]
"The Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP, for its Spanish acronym) rejected the repetitive conduct of Senator María Fernanda Cabal, regarding accusations and stigmatizations against journalists. It also announced it will file a disciplinary complaint before the Attorney General's Office to investigate the senator for going against constitutional values. The most recent case that caught FLIP's […]
"This Monday, March 27, six armed men arrived at the facilities of El Heraldo, in Barranquilla [north of the country]. Two of them entered and demanded to speak with the newspaper's managing director, Erika Fontalvo. Three journalists had to go out to talk to the members of the armed group, who told them that they […]
"After a controversy was unleashed in social media [on March 13] by the use of an image of President Gustavo Petro's youngest daughter in an article published by the news outlet La Silla Vacía, the Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP, by its Spanish acronym) spoke out and stated its position. The debate opened precisely at […]
"In the department of Putumayo, in the southwest of Colombia, anyone, including armed groups, knows where the most well-known journalists live. It is enough to tell a cab driver the name of one of the journalists to arrive, in a matter of minutes, at the doors of their homes, which are almost always also their […]
"[These journalists] don't have a newsroom or big production equipment. They combine traditional journalism formulas with new ways of telling what is happening in their spot. They do not follow a script, because over time they've learned empirically what works best for effective communication. On the street they are known by their neighbors and followers. […]
"The Constitutional Court [of Colombia] has just denied a tutela [legal remedy in the Colombian system for guaranteeing fundamental rights] filed by filmmaker Ciro Guerra against journalists Catalina Ruiz-Navarro and Matilde de los Milagros. Said journalists published in June 2020 in the digital news site Volcanicas eight allegations of sexual harassment and abuse against Guerra […]
"A journalist and director of a local television channel was killed by gunmen in southern Colombia, the Colombian Attorney General's Office said Tues. Nov. 29). 'The Attorney General's Office learned of the death of journalist and social leader Wilder Alfredo Córdoba in the municipality of La Unión, Nariño,' they said on social media. Authorities of […]
"Journalist Rafael Emiro Moreno, murdered this past Oct. 16, had received death threats since 2019. During the following three years the attacks against Moreno continued, so he turned to the National Protection Unit (UNP) and other state entities in search of measures to protect his life. However, during that time, Moreno faced a protection mechanism […]