Considering the dangerous environments for press professionals in Mexico, nine newsrooms in various parts of the country learned to build their own physical, digital and facility security protocols based on their specific circumstances, as part of the Safer Newsrooms initiative from the IAPA and Google News Initiative.
Digital satire programs, such as Mexico’s “El Pulso de la República” or Colombia’s “La Pulla,” are gaining increasing visibility and having big impacts on public discourse in their countries. They’re also filling the gap in sociopolitical criticism left by traditional media, according to research by Peruvian journalist and academic Paul Alonso.
Lawmakers approved a reform bill that would eliminate Mexico’s transparency agency, which raises questions about how the right to public information will be upheld. Journalists and organizations warn about the risk of longer, costlier and less transparent processes, which would create obstacles for journalism and accountability.
In the workshop at the Autonomous University of Mexico City, students from the city’s peripheral boroughs get an opportunity to highlight their neighborhoods and interests, challenging stigma and filling a void left by major outlets.
Collusion by authorities, lack of official data and indifference from society make it difficult to cover human trafficking and exploitation, according to journalists who have investigated the topic in Colombia, Mexico and Paraguay.
“The journalists tell,” a production from theater company Teatro Línea de Sombra and independent media outlet Elefante Blanco, seeks to raise awareness about the press’ experiences in Mexico.
These were the main challenges faced by journalism and press freedom during Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s government in Mexico.
Participants of a cross-industry meeting in Mexico City emphasized the importance of collaboration, a global community, digital literacy and public support for journalism.
The creators behind Periodismo de lo posible are rethinking what it means to have an impact with journalism, looking beyond clicks and efforts to go viral.
Film co-produced by Mexican actors Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal tells stories of journalists subjected to threats, attacks, forced displacement and exile, and who maintain their commitment to journalism and the public’s right to information.
Nayelli López Reyes, a weaver and an activist, created a vivid podcast of courageous women speaking out against violence in their community.
GIJN spoke to reporters from outlets based in Colombia, Honduras, and Mexico, as well as from two region-wide projects, to hear how they carried out their recent work, where they are innovating on this beat, and how they are changing the narrative about organized crime from a focus on kingpins to investigations into the impact of organized crime on ordinary people.