"From July 18 to August 11, 2022, journalists living in Ecuador can apply for Investiga Tour Ecuador, an itinerant newsroom that will offer five grants of between $800 and $1,000 to publish investigative journalistic pieces on the subject of illegal logging in the Amazon. And they will also offer editorial support during reporting, production and […]
"A group of demonstrators outside the Montebello market, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, attacked a team of journalists from the newspaper El Universo. They forced them to leave while covering a protest that had gathered some 300 people. After aggressions and threats, the team had to leave and the photographer was asked to erase the images he […]
"Journalists Juan Carlos Sola and Brayan Borja, of the digital news outlet La Voz Ciudadana EC, were attacked by a group of demonstrators in Guaranda, Ecuador. They punched and hit them while complaining they were filming. Juan Carlos Sola told Fundamedios that they were trying to take footage of a confrontation between a driver and […]
"The National Union of Journalists of Ecuador declared this Friday, April 8, 2022, as the Mourning Day of Ecuadorian Journalism. The organization commemorates this date in tribute to Javier Ortega, Efraín Segarra and Paúl Rivas, the journalistic team of EL COMERCIO, who was kidnapped and killed by dissidents on the northern border. During a commemorative […]
"In the ruling, notified today [Dec.21, 2021], relapsed in the Case of Palacio Urrutia et al. v. Ecuador, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights declared the international responsibility of the State of Ecuador for the violation of the rights to freedom of expression, the principle of legality, movement and residence, job stability, judicial guarantees and […]
"The Colonel of the National Police, Rafael Marcelo Pérez Aguirre, sent a letter to the journalist of Código Vidrio, Arturo Torres, with threatening terms in which he asked to know the journalist's source and also disqualified his work, after the communicator launched a tweet on Twitter. Torres wrote a thread on Twitter that reported that […]
On Oct. 21, Columbia Global Freedom of Expression and the World Leaders Forum, with the support of UNESCO, are pleased to host a dialogue on the application of global norms on freedom of expression. Justices and academics from Latin America, including Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil and Colombia will present. Read schedule and register
"On Sept. 14, police officers and agents from the local attorney general’s office raided [Fausto] Chimbolema’s office in the central Ecuadorian town of Tena and confiscated his laptop, memory cards, and mobile phone, according to the journalist, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app, and a statement by the Ecuadorian free press organization Fundamedios. Chimbolema […]
"Journalist Mario Pinto from MP Noticias suffered an attack with an explosive device on the night of Aug. 25 at his home, located in the north center of Machala [Ecuador]. At 10:15 p.m. a neighbor of the communicator began to shout towards the windows of the house that a stick of dynamite had been thrown. […]
"Representatives of electoral institutions from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru signed a declaration in Quito with the aim of jointly combating false news and disinformation generated around electoral processes. [...] Among the commitments of the meeting, the participants reiterated their intention to continuously apply good regional practices for verifying information (factchecking) and actions against disinformation […]