"The National Telecommunications Commission of Venezuela (Conatel, by its Spanish acronym) shut down the Kalor 101.9 FM station, based in Acarigua, in the state of Portuguesa, on Dec. 28. The news outlet was run by the journalist and recently-elected opposition mayor, Carlos Barrios. [...] On Dec. 27, the regulatory body closed the Astro 97.7 FM […]
"The NGO Espacio Público documented 103 violations of freedom of expression [in November]. Most of the cases had to do with intimidation of journalists, censorship and administrative restrictions that hindered access to information. This number raised the total to 453 violations reported to the organization until Nov. 30. In 44% of the cases, journalists were […]
"On Wednesday [Nov. 10], the court that is handling the case of Alex Saab ordered the federal prosecutor's office in Miami to open a criminal investigation of the media and journalists, most of them Venezuelans, who published photos of the last hearing of the alleged front man of Nicolás Maduro despite to the express prohibition […]
“Two years and seven months after his arbitrary detention, Espacio Público demands once again the dismissal of the case against Luis Carlos Díaz, a journalist and human rights defender whose court case continues despite the lack of evidence against him and even though the prosecutor's office has not delivered the final act of its investigation. […]
"A former reporter for the El Nacional daily newspaper who also collaborated with three TV channels – Venevisión, Globovisión and Televén – Roland Carreño was arrested near his Caracas home on 26 October 2020 and has been held ever since on charges of money-laundering, financing terrorism, criminal association and illegal trafficking in weapons of war. [...] “The absurd charges against Roland Carreño and the […]
“The Venezuelan Prosecutor's Office has ordered the opening of an investigation against Roberto Deniz, a journalist for investigative site Armando.info. Nicolás Maduro's justice acts after the reporter, the editors and the media outlet itself were subjected to an intense campaign of harassment and bullying in networks of which Chavismo officials, influencers and bots are part […]
Newsrooms from Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela are among the finalists for the 2021 Online Journalism Awards. The awards honor excellence in digital journalism and are a program of the Online News Association. Winners will be announced on Oct. 15. The finalists from Latin America are: GENERAL EXCELLENCE IN ONLINE JOURNALISM Agência Pública (Small Newsroom Finalist) […]
"The National Union of Press Workers reported this Friday [Sept. 10] that Chilean-Venezuelan communicator Braulio Jatar was declared innocent, for which he is granted complete freedom. [...] Jatar, director of the site Reporte Confidencial, was arrested on Sept. 3, 2016 after publishing about a protest against Nicolás Maduro on the island of Margarita. " […]
"The Consortium to Support Independent Journalism in the Region (CAPIR, for its acronym in Spanish) calls on independent media from Mexico, Honduras, Bolivia and Venezuela to participate in the Initiative for Integral Media Development (IMDI), which seeks to strengthen the institutional capacity of independent media to protect their journalists, increase the reach of their audience […]
"The Voces del Sur (VDS) network presented the Shadow Report 2020 that compiles alerts related to violations of freedom of expression, freedom of the press and access to information that occurred in 13 Latin American countries: Argentina , Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. [...] The regional results […]
"Prodavinci found that only two daily print newspapers circulate in Venezuela when, up to 2013, there were more than one hundred. Another 20 go out to the streets with a less frequent periodicity than daily. By June 2021, six media with national information are printed and 16 local newspapers The areas with the greatest information […]
"Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is publishing a gallery of grim portraits, those of 37 heads of state or government who crack down massively on press freedom. Some of these 'predators of press freedom' have been operating for more than two decades while others have just joined the blacklist... [...] The new entrants also include predators […]