María Esther Aguilar Cansimbe went missing Nov. 11, La Jornada reports. She covered the police beat and drug trafficking for El Diaro de Zamora and was a correspondent for Cambio de Michoacán, in the state of Michoacán. (See this report in English by the Committee to Protect Journalists.) read more »

Last March, President Felipe Calderon criticized the magazine’s decision to include Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzmán on its list of the world’s billionaires. read more »

Mexico’s deployment of thousands of soldiers to the northern city of Ciudad Juárez hasn’t kept assassins from striking at will, killing 18 people at a drug treatment center last September, and opening fire this week at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, killing one. read more »

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Juan Manuel Martínez Morena was arrested last year in connection with the 2006 killing of video journalist Brad Will during a protest in Oaxaca state. A federal judge ordered the suspect’s release, saying prosecutors lacked enough evidence to hold him, EFE and Milenio report. read more »

The assassination of police reporter Bladimir Antuna in Durango has once again exposed the helplessness of media workers in Mexico. The situation makes the country one of the world's most riskiest in which to practice journalism. read more »

Ten hours after Bladimir Antuna, crime reporter for El Tiempo newspaper, was kidnapped while driving to work, his body was found outside a hospital in Durango City, Durango, the AFP news agency and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) report. read more »

A helicopter belonging to the RCG TV station caught fire several minutes into its flight for a morning news program and crashed into a tire factory in the northeastern city of Saltillo, Coahuila, the Associated Press and Milenio report. read more »

Darío D’Atri, editor of Clarin.com, will present the course “Newsroom Integration: Is It Possible?” from Nov. 12-14, 2009, in Monterrey Mexico. The course is part of the digital journalism training series offered by Mexico's Autonomous University of Nuevo León. read more »

María de los Ángeles González Hernández, a columnist for the newspaper Política, reported that she and her family received death threats from union leaders in Xalapa, Veracruz in retaliation for unflattering coverage, the Center for Journalism and Public Ethics (CEPET) reports. read more »

Amnesty International (AI) has criticized the lack of progress in the investigation of the 2006 shooting death of video journalist Brad Will in the southern state of Oaxaca.

AI insists that the suspect jailed for the crime is a "scapegoat" being held on flawed evidence, and that his prosecution "appears to be driven by the need to demonstrate progress in Brad Will’s case." read more »

Mexico’s newly seated Chamber of Deputies has disbanded a special committee formed in 2006 to deal with crimes against journalists and the news media, the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) says. read more »

Fabián Ramírez López was found with stab wounds in the chest in a vacant lot in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, El Porvenir reports. He had been missing since last Friday and was found late Sunday.

Ramírez, 42, worked for La Magia 97.1, a local station of the Mega Radio group. read more »

Argentine journalist Olga Wornat insists she won't pay US$37,000 in damages to former first lady Marta Sahagún for an article published in 2005 in Proceso. Mexico's Supreme Court ruled that Wornat must comply with a lower court's ruling, but Wornat calls the fine "absolutely unjust", the Associated Press says. read more »

According to the AnnArbor.com news site, Cacho, whose exposé of a child pornography network in Cancún brought repeated death threats, will receive the award named for Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust.

Cacho is the 19th recipient of the award, which is granted at the University of Michigan.

Journalists from national and statewide media joined press freedom advocates outside the Attorney General’s office in Mexico City this week to demonstrate against impunity in crimes against media workers, La Jornada reports. read more »

The report issued this week by Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) criticizes Mexico's press defense institutions as being passive and negiligent, contributing to "pepetuating the plight of the Mexican press." (Download the report as a PDF file.) read more »

Norberto Miranda Madrid, a radio host and Web columnist who harshly criticized local crime, was killed Wednesday night in Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, in the newsroom of the radio station where he worked, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports. read more »

The National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH) said a court in Guadalajara, Jalisco harassed the journalists for Contralínea magazine who had reported mismanagement by the state oil company Pemex, EFE repor read more »

Mexico's Autonomous University of Nuevo León continues its series of classes in digital journalism Oct. 1–3, 2009, with the course The Future of Journalism: How will the media be? How will journalists be? read more »

After receiving the Gonzalez-Ruano Journalism Prize, the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes announced plans to publish a new book in November called Adam in Eden (Adán en Edén), a journalistic report on drug trafficking and political corruption in Mexico, EFE reports. read more »