“On Feb. 20, 2021, journalist Carlos Paredes denounced to IPYS that he has received death threats to his cell phone. He also found that his email was hacked to steal and circulate a preliminary version of his book El Lagarto. The event occurred in Lima, the country's capital. Paredes' book is about former president Martín […]
"On Monday [Feb. 15], the Peruvian Press Council launched PerúCheck, a collaborative journalistic fact-checking tool to address the disinformation that has been occurring during this year's electoral campaign. The objective is for citizens to be able to vote with reliable information. The alliance is led by three national media outlets associated with the Peruvian Press […]
"Martín Leandro [Amaya] Camacho has always been passionate about being compassionate. The 27-year-old spent the formative periods of his childhood in a small fishing village callas Cancas, in northern Peru. 'I loved the sea and its legends,' he says, recalling his early years. 'But from a young age, I could clearly see injustices all around […]
"On Tuesday, Peruvian journalist Guillermo Galdós won the prestigious British Rory Peck Award, which is given each year to the best freelance reporters, for a work on Venezuelan refugees who work collecting corpses of COVID-19 victims in Lima." Read original report (in Spanish)
“The security forces also repressed reporters in the capital: four journalists - from the daily El Comercio, Canal N, Ojo Público and the French agency AFP - were wounded by pellets. A fifth journalist was injured in Puerto Maldonado, in the Amazon region of Madre de Dios, according to the National Association of Journalists." Read […]
"The National Association of Journalists of Peru (ANP, for its acronym in Spanish) deplores the actions of the police who, in the last 48 hours, within the framework of the exercise of the legitimate citizen right to protest, have repressed photojournalists, reporters and protesters. At least 16 photojournalists, video reporters and reporters from the group […]
"On October 27, police officers in the southern Peruvian city of Ica raided the Cadena Sur TV station as well as Radio Sistema and Radio La Mega, all three of which are privately owned, following a complaint by Mónica Guillén, the wife of Ica state governor Javier Gallegos, according to a statement by the Lima-based Institute for Press and Society (IPYS)." […]
"Judge Rómulo Chira Cabezas denied the request of the defense representing journalist Paola Ugaz, who requested that the chamber, considering the relevance of the judicial case, authorize two representatives from the Center for Human Rights of the American Bar Association (ABA) to participate as observers in the Oct. 27 hearing... The hearing, which is taking […]
"Eight months have passed without news of the young Peruvian journalist Daysi Mina Huamán, whose disappearance has been included by the international media coalition One Free Press Coalition among the ten most urgent cases to be resolved in the world for attacks and harassment of women journalists. The case of the young journalist, who worked […]
"After launching its membership program to fund investigative journalism in Peru, OjoPúblico signed an agreement with The New York Times Licensing Group - the content licensing division of the New York Times - to publish a selection of stories from The New York Times in Spanish." Read original article (in Spanish)
"A group of police and security agents from Catacaos forcibly apprehended journalist Ralph Zapata, who coordinated the regional edition of Peruvian site Ojo Público, from his home. The police transferred him violently to the La Legua Police Station on the grounds that he had violated the curfew. Ojo Público reported the incident to the authorities […]