“Report for the World today announced the selection of 15 new host newsrooms, more than doubling its global network from eight to 20 countries. Among them are five, independent newsrooms reporting on their home countries in exile. ‘As we expand to 20 countries this year, we have also extended our support to newsrooms operating in […]
"Journalist Bertín Chino González was detained [on Thu. April 13] by the police of the municipality of San Luis Acatlán, in [the Mexican state of] Guerrero, after he posted a video of a desolate plant nursery that was part of the [President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's program of agroforestry in rural communities] Sembrando Vida (Sowing […]
"Unidentified men assaulted Mexican journalist Alain Albarrán Granados on Thursday [April 6]. He covers issues of violence, particularly against women, in Oaxaca, in the south of the country. The reporter at the radio station La Poderosa 100.5 FM and the newspaper El Imparcial de Oaxaca was hit in the face and body as he was […]
"Mexican reporter Richard Villa was kidnapped on Monday afternoon [April 3] by a group of armed men in the state of Veracruz, local authorities said. The news outlet itself, Presente Veracruz, reported that the incident occurred at 5:40 p.m. (23:40 GMT) when the reporter was at a repair shop where he had taken his motorcycle. […]
"Journalist Fernando Rodríguez, a contributor to the Noticias Web digital news outlet in [the Mexican state of] Coahuila, reported that he was the victim of an attack in the early hours of Monday morning, April 3, when a man sprayed fuel on his vehicle and set it on fire. 'I thought it was a short […]
"Mexican authorities on Thursday [March 30] recaptured a former local police chief accused of involvement in the murder of Mexican journalist José Moisés Sánchez, who was beheaded in January 2015 and is considered one of the emblematic cases of violence against the press in Mexico. The Attorney General's Office of the State of Veracruz, the […]
"Article 19 presented Voices against Indifference, its most recent annual report on violence against the press, freedom of expression, access to information and respect for human rights in Mexico, which reveals the tenuous condition of freedom of expression in Mexico. [...] As the central part of the report, which was released at the Museum of […]
"The Senate of the Republic [of Mexico] unanimously approved this Wed. [March 15] a reform to eliminate the Law on Press Offenses, which had been active since 1917. The law encouraged censorship and threats to journalists from the political power. The discussion to abolish this law had been frozen in the Senate for two and […]
"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 […]