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Call for investigative journalism projects in Mexico

"The Consortium to Support Journalism in the Region (CAPIR, for its acronym in Spanish) calls on local independent media and independent journalists from Mexico to participate in a national or local journalistic investigation project which will be carried out between May and December 2021. More than one proposal can be submitted per media outlet, group […]

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Convocatoria de periodismo de investigación en México

"El Consorcio para apoyar el Periodismo en la Región (CAPIR) convoca a medios locales independientes y periodistas independientes de México para que participen en un proyecto de investigación periodística nacional o local cuyo proyecto se llevará a cabo entre mayo y diciembre de 2021. Se puede presentar más de una propuesta por medio, grupo de periodistas o […]

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HRW warns online free speech is at risk in Mexico

"Mexican Senate Majority Leader Ricardo Monreal’s proposed bill to regulate social media networks could severely restrict free speech in Mexico, Human Rights Watch said today. The bill would require companies to censor broadly defined categories of online content in violation of international norms currently in force. Senator Monreal should withdraw his proposal."   Read original article

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Libertad de expresión en internet peligra en México

"El proyecto legislativo para regular redes sociales que propuso el líder de la mayoría en el Senado mexicano, Ricardo Monreal, podría limitar gravemente la libertad de expresión en México, señaló hoy Human Rights Watch. El proyecto exigiría a las empresas censurar categorías amplísimas de contenidos en línea, lo cual contraviene las normas internacionales actualmente en […]

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Mexican media outlets form alliance against disinformation ahead of 2021 elections

"Faced with the 2021 Elections [in Mexico], independent and digital native media outlets in Chihuahua and Sinaloa, together with Animal Político, launch a collaborative fact-checking initiative, which was created to combat false or inaccurate content that circulates in the context of state and federal elections. [...] This effort brings together the newsrooms of La Verdad, […]

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Home of Mexican journalist who reported murder of a woman in Tulum is raided

" Mexican journalist Francisco Canul Cauich, who was one of the first people to report and make public the case of Víctoria Salazar, the woman killed by police in Tulum, Quintana Roo, denounced that his house was raided. The events occurred on April 4, when the journalist was away from his home. He denounced that […]

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Mexican President accuses Article 19 of being financed by foreign companies and of belonging to conservative movement

"[Mexican] President Andrés Manuel López Obrador accused Article 19, a civil society organization that in 2009 began to keep a record of attacks on freedom of expression in Mexico, of being financed by foreign companies, and even by the U.S. State Department. 'That body is supported from overseas, all the people who have to do […]

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Police reporter is missing in Sonora, Mexico

"The State Attorney General's Office reported this Friday [March 27] the disappearance of Pablo Felipe Romero Chávez, a radio journalist working on the police beat. According to the version of the events, it was on March 25 when relatives and colleagues lost communication with him, which is why they filed a complaint with the public […]

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Mexican journalist Jorge Molontzín missing in Sonora since March 10

"[Jorge Molontzín Centlal] a reporter with the magazine Confidencial, went missing on March 10 while he was driving near the municipality of Santa Ana, in the northern state of Sonora, according to a statement published by Confidencial on March 17. Confidencial editor José Alfredo Gaston Gastelum told CPJ in a phone interview that he last […]

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Mexican journalist says mayor tried to drive him off the road

"On March 2, at about 6:15 p.m., a sport utility vehicle attempted to force Amaro off the road while he was driving with his son in the municipality of Tetla de la Solidaridad, in Tlaxcala state, east of Mexico City, the journalist told CPJ in a phone interview. He said the car attempted to crash […]

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One Free Press Coalition highlights cases of women journalists in Mexico and Guatemala on '10 Most Urgent' list

The One Free Press Coalition, which publishes a monthly list of the "10 Most Urgent" press freedom cases around the world, focused on women journalists for March 2021 in anticipation of International Women's Day (March 8). On its list were journalists from Mexico and Guatemala. Among those on the list is Mexican columnist and reporter […]

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Mexican journalist Edgar Leyva in hiding after shooting attempt

"On Feb. 3, in Ocotlán, in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, two unidentified men in a car pulled up to a plot of land where [Edgar Leyva Mendoza], his sister, and his aunt were working, and asked for the journalist; when his aunt and sister approached the vehicle, the men opened fire, according to […]