"On the night of March 24, El Pitazo received notification of a new YouTube sanction against a video published by this native digital media outlet. This action, the third in three months, led to the definitive closure of the channel, which had more than 102,000 accumulated followers since Dec. 8, 2014, the date on which […]
"The Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN), the Pulitzer Center's new initiative for investigative journalism in tropical rainforest regions, has selected its first cohort of Fellows. Thirteen journalists from 10 countries will spend a year producing investigative stories on key issues facing the future of the Amazon, the forests of the Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia. The […]
"La Red de Investigaciones de la Selva Tropical (RIN, por sus siglas en inglés), una nueva iniciativa del Centro Pulitzer para el periodismo de investigación en las regiones tropicales, ha seleccionado su primera grupo de becarios. Trece periodistas de 10 países pasarán un año produciendo reportajes de investigación sobre cuestiones clave para el futuro de […]
"The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a project of the Columbia Journalism School in New York, is launching a project-based virtual Fellowship for journalists based in Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia which will be focused on illuminating the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on young children’s growth, development and wellbeing." Read original announcement
"The National Association of Journalists [CNP, for its acronym in Spanish], Caracas section, documented 355 attacks on the [Venezuelan] press in 2020, including 61 arbitrary detentions and the blocking of 15 web pages. [...] The CNP indicated that there were 51 physical attacks, 34 threats, 23 deletions of material, 6 seizures of equipment, 4 seizures […]
“The Chavista regime seized cameras, computers, and transmission equipment from the independent network VPItv and closed the Maracaibo headquarters of the newspaper Panorama. In addition, the site TalCual was hacked and the official network Globovisión published an extensive article accusing Efecto Cocuyo, Caraota Digital and El Pitazo of being 'financed to overthrow the government.'" Read […]
“On December 2 in the town of Altagracia de Orituco in central Guárico state, armed assailants shot [Jamel] Louka, a reporter and photographer with the privately owned Diario La Antena and a contributor to independent news website El Pitazo, in his left arm as he was fleeing what he described as a botched kidnapping attempt […]
"The Government of Venezuela confirmed this Tuesday (10.27.2020) that journalist Roland Carreño - of whom there had been no news for 24 hours and who acts as coordinator of Voluntad Popular (VP), the party of opposition leader Leopoldo López - was arrested. The Minister of Communications, Freddy Ñáñez, explained on his Twitter account that 'he […]
"Journalist María Ramírez and Susana Reyes, secretary, both employees of [newspaper] Correo del Caroní, were released by the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin, for its acronym in Spanish). The situation occurred after more than 6 hours of arbitrary detention ... On Tuesday morning, Sebin raided the headquarters of the newspaper Correo del Caroní, located in […]
"Officials from the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service on Tuesday raided the headquarters of the newspaper Correo del Caroní, located in Puerto Ordaz, Bolívar state... On Monday, October 12, the soldiers detained David Natera Febres, director of Correo del Caroní, for several hours after raiding his residence." Read original article (in Spanish)
"Venezuela and Brazil dominated the Roche Awards for Health Journalism in sound, digital and daily health coverage, which were delivered virtually on Thursday night." See the list of winners (in Spanish)
“The Venezuelan Press and Society Institute (IPYS-Venezuela) published its most recent investigation ‘Atlas of Silence: The news deserts in Venezuela,’ in which it revealed that more than five million people live without access to sufficient media in the country. Through its national network of correspondents and the systematization of data, it analyzed the reality of […]