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.
Disinformation and obstacles to accessing public information are some of the challenges that journalists from Bolivia, Colombia and Mexico have faced when covering issues related to water. Reporters shared recommendations to improve coverage of the water crisis, including the use of long-term and long-form reporting.
Days before her landslide victory at the polls and election as the next Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum made a commitment to Reporters Without Borders to protect journalists in the country. To keep her word, she will need to promote profound reforms in the Mexican justice system.
After presenting VerificAudio, an AI tool to detect manipulated audio material and combat disinformation, the PRISA media group will begin using it in its news stations in Spain, Mexico, Colombia and Chile. It’s also considering collaboration with other media that are interested in the tool.
The importance of monitoring disinformation in political campaigns, the risks of using social networks to influence public discourse and the current role of fact checking were some topics that panelists from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico addressed at the International Journalism Festival 2024, in Perugia, Italy.
At the 17th Ibero-American Colloquium on Digital Journalism, Patricia Mercado, director of Conexión Migrante, explains how the media outlet offers quality information to Latin American migrants in the U.S., to migrants crossing Mexico, and also to those who have yet to arrive in the country.
With their campaigns against independent media, the governments of several Latin American countries are beginning to threaten press freedom. Can Nicolás Maduro and Daniel Ortega's extreme of media blockages and closures be replicated?
The morning press conferences held by the Mexican president are part of a communication strategy recognized as “unique” not only in his country but in the region. And although they emerged as a promise to improve transparency and communication, their critics see them as spaces to attack the media, journalists and even spread disinformation.