"The Red Nacional de Periodistas, Comunicación e Información de la Mujer A.C. (Cimac) and Article 19 express our concern about the aggressions against journalists Paulina Millán and Carolina Fernández, both from the newspaper El Popular, in the state of Puebla. Journalist Paulina Millán was intimidated by the company BHIP after covering a conference. Carolina Fernández […]
"Retired journalist Carlos Acosta was found dead over the weekend in a Mexico City hotel, a case for which the Attorney General's Office announced on Monday the opening of a homicide investigation. The man was found on Saturday [March 4] in a hotel room located in the Ermita neighborhood of the Benito Juarez district, the […]
"The strike at Notimex, Mexico's public news agency, has been going on for more than three years this week and there is no sign of a resolution anytime soon. The Sindicato Único de Trabajadores de Notimex [Notimex's union] reported this week that the dialogue table with the Secretaría del Trabajo [Mexico's Labor Department] will be […]
"On Feb. 17, Forbidden Stories and a media conglomerate, including OCCRP [Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project], published a series of investigative reports exposing the abuses and illegalities of the Spanish company ELIMINALIA. The company's services focus on aiding politicians and journalists to remove or de-index from any digital platform, web host or search engine, […]
"Journalist, student and land activist Abisaí Pérez Romero was found dead in Tula, [state of] Hidalgo, confirmed on Thurs. [Feb. 16] the organization Article 19 and the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM, by its acronym in Spanish). Article 19 pointed to a possible murder, while the Hidalgo State Attorney General's Office said that there […]
"On Feb. 7, two journalists from [the Mexican state of] Chiapas, Verónica Vega Cisneros, host of Televisa Chiapas, and Daniela Grajales, host of TV Azteca Chiapas, were assaulted by the same man while covering a story related to the death of a child in a private educational institution in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. [...] The man […]
"Today [Jan. 24] marks eight years since Moisés Sánchez, a foot journalist in Medellín de Veracruz, was found dead. On Jan. 2, 2015, a convoy with armed subjects entered the home of José Moisés Sánchez Cerezo, director of La Unión: La Voz de Medellín, deprived him of his freedom and kidnapped him for 22 days, […]
"The IWMF's ¡Exprésate! [Express Yourself!] initiative seeks to support the production of high quality journalism with a focus on gender and sexual diversity to bring to light the issues faced by women and LGBTQ+ people in Latin America. This April, the initiative will begin its fourth year of the professional development program for journalists in […]
"A journalist in northern Mexico escaped unharmed after a gunman attacked his family’s vehicle in the border state of Sonora in the first reported attempt on a reporter’s life in the country in the new year. Sunday’s attack, on the first day of 2023, came after Mexico suffered its worst year of killings of journalists […]
"Mexican] journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva denounced on Dec. 15 that two armed men made an attempt on his life outside his home. 'At 11:10 pm, 200 meters [650 feet] from my house, two people on a motorcycle shot at me, apparently with the clear intention of killing me. I was saved by the armor of […]
"Late Thursday [Dec. 15] evening, two unidentified attackers on a motorcycle shot at Ciro Gómez Leyva while he was driving near his Mexico City home and then fled the scene, according to news reports and tweets by the journalist shortly after the attack. Gómez Leyva, a well-known TV journalist who hosts the Por la Mañana morning radio show on Grupo Fórmula and […]
"Journalist Francisco Hernández Elvira, leader of the Journalists Club of the municipality of Isla, state of Veracruz, was found alive and beaten early Wed. morning [Nov. 23], after being reported missing on Nov. 20. The State Commission for the Attention and Protection of Journalists (CEAPP, by its Spanish acronym) said the journalist is safe and […]