"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 […]
"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
"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 […]
"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, […]
" 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 […]
"[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 […]
"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 […]
"[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 […]
"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 […]
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 […]