Ten data-driven journalism projects from around the world won the 2026 Sigma Awards, hosted by the Global Investigative Journalism Network. They were recognized as the best in data journalism out of 543 entries from 84 countries, as reported by GIJN. Winners from Latin America included Peruvian outlet Salud con Lupa for "Invisibles: How System Failures […]
"Eight journalists disappeared or were murdered in Mexico in 2025, the UK-based journalist advocacy group Article 19 said in a report published on Wednesday, which named Mexico as the country in Latin America with the highest rates of censorship and judicial harassment against the press. 'In 2025, Mexico recorded one disappearance and seven murders of […]
"Pablo Israel Vázquez, a journalist and news editor for the Chilpancingo newspaper Vértice, was robbed at gunpoint in the state capital's main square after leaving work. This is the second violent robbery in the state in a week. Last Thursday, in the vicinity of the Atoyac River, reporter Francisco Magaña was attacked with a knife […]
"A young reporter identified as Karen Pateyro—who covers social events and entertainment—is being sought by her family after her whereabouts became unknown on Monday, April 20, in the municipality of Río Blanco, located in the central region of the state of Veracruz. According to the information provided, the journalist works for the online outlet Radio […]
"Journalist Makario Sierra was beaten by agents of the state’s Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC, for its initials in Spanish) while covering a security operation in the municipality of Juventino Rosas. Makario Sierra, a reporter for the digital news outlet El Otro Enfoque, was transported to the community hospital suffering from injuries to his head, face, […]
"Tele Saltillo reporter Jerson Cardozo was assaulted the morning of Friday, April 17, during a live broadcast he was conducting to report on a car rollover in [the city of Saltillo, in the Mexican state of Coahuila]. Videos show that […] companions of the driver physically attacked and chased the journalist. The footage also shows […]
"Last Friday, April 10, journalist Gabriel Jesús Chan Uicab was physically assaulted and kept from reporting by two officers from the Yucatán Public Security Secretariat in Dzununcán, Mérida. Chan, a reporter for Diario de Yucatán, had gone to cover a car accident at the kilometer 6 overpass of Mérida’s peripheral road. The incident allegedly involved […]
"Samuel Rodolfo Vizcarra Velarde admitted to his involvement in the kidnapping and murder of journalist and El Debate newspaper columnist Luis Enrique Ramírez Ramos and was sentenced to 19 years in prison for the crime of aggravated homicide, the State Attorney General's Office of Culiacán reported. The conviction of the perpetrator of the crime against […]
"On March 18, 2026, Juan David Gámez [owner of local news site Táctica SS] was shot dead in the Valle de Lincoln neighborhood of García, in the northern state of Nuevo León. According to information [from Reporters Without Borders, RSF], he was attacked while riding his motorcycle near his home. Juan David Gámez regularly published […]
"Oaxacan journalist and head of the news site OM Noticias, Óscar Merino Ruiz, was shot and wounded in an attack Tuesday night in Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, a town on Oaxaca’s coast, the National Forum of Journalists and Communicators confirmed. The shooting took place in a public area and left him seriously injured. He was taken […]
"Carlos Dada is one of the most respected Latin American journalists worldwide, but he can’t practice journalism in his own country. Founder and editor in chief of the Salvadoran newspaper El Faro, Dada now lives in exile. Harassment by President Nayib Bukele forced El Faro to move its headquarters to Costa Rica, and Dada and his colleagues […]
Pedro Segura, a former candidate with Mexico's Green and Labor parties for governor in the state of Guerrero, threatened journalist Carlos Loret de Mola after the latter showed on the digital channel Latinus a video showing Segura singing a corrido in tribute to the alleged slain drug trafficker Nemesio Oseguera “El Mencho.” In a video […]