“The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) presented its 2020 awards on Wednesday, including a special prize posthumously awarded to the at least 130 journalists and press workers who died in the Americas from COVID-19 as a result of working 'bravely' in the middle of the pandemic." Read original article (in Spanish)
"Venezuela and Brazil dominated the Roche Awards for Health Journalism in sound, digital and daily health coverage, which were delivered virtually on Thursday night." See the list of winners (in Spanish)
"Governments around the world have used the COVID-19 pandemic as cover to expand online surveillance and data collection, censor critical speech, and build new technological systems of social control, according to Freedom on the Net 2020, the latest edition of the annual country-by-country assessment of internet freedom, released today by Freedom House... Political leaders are also using […]
"The Journalistic Ethics Observatory (objETHOS, in its acronym in Portuguese) is launching the COVID-19 Guide to Ethical Coverage, a free publication for journalists. The guide was based on some of the main manuals and lists of recommendations that have been circulating internationally since the beginning of the pandemic." Read the full article and download the […]
"Since the initial outbreak, the freedom of expression and right to information have turned into another victims to the pandemic. Globally disinformation and hate speech has expanded little by little crossing borders and provoking fear, stigma and prejudiced against different populations, primary of Asian descent, as well as against victims of the sickness." Read original […]
“The decision of the Brazilian government to omit the general balance of deaths of COVID-19 as of this Saturday (6th) places the country alongside Venezuela or the most closed regime in the world, North Korea, in the transparency management of pandemic statistics.” Read original article (Portuguese)
"The Google News Initiative wants to help by launching a Journalism Emergency Relief Fund to deliver urgent aid to thousands of small, medium and local news publishers globally. The funding is open to news organizations producing original news for local communities during this time of crisis, and will range from the low thousands of dollars […]
"The Colombian National Protection Unit announced that it would be suspending the country’s Risk Assessment and Protection Measures Recommendation Committee, which grants protective measures to journalists, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic." Read original article
"The Federation of Latin American and Caribbean Journalists (FEPALC, for its acronym in Spanish) demands governments and journalistic companies take extreme health measures in calls for press conferences (social distancing), to provide basic care instruments (masks and gloves by protocol in some of the countries), to immediately implement teleworking in newsrooms, and invokes our colleagues […]