An unidentified person hurled a fragmentation grenade at an influential radio station, HRN, while it was broadcasting the "Tegucigalpa at Night" program. A radio technician and one other person received minor injuries from falling debris, AFP reports. read more »

The latest talks to resolve the Honduran crisis have stalled, but Canal 36 (Cholusat Sur) and Radio Globo have returned to the air after the decree that restricted several constitutional rights was revoked, AFP and read more »

Roberto Micheletti's interim government has imposed a new decree that would allow it to cancel the licenses of radio and TV stations that threaten national security and incite "hatred," and "social anarchy" AFP and Al Jazeera report. read more »

The human rights prosecutor asked the state telecom regulator to restore the rights of media outlets that were shut down Sept. 27 when the de facto government declared a state of emergency, La Tribuna reports. The two channels, Radio Globo and Cholusat Sur TV (Canal 36), support ousted President Manuel Zelaya. read more »

Interim President Roberto Micheletti restored civil liberties that were suspended last month after the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, BBC reports. He said the country is at peace and no longer needed the decree issued Sept. 26 after protests followed Zelaya's surprise return. read more »

Ever since the acting government silenced Radio Globo last week after the return of removed leader Manuel Zelaya, the station has been portrayed as a martyr for freedom of expression. read more »

Brazil's embassy in Tegucigalpa has been at the center of the news since Manuel Zelaya sought refuge there.

Reporter Fabiano Maisonnave of the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper has witnessed the drama there this week and created the blog Da Embaixada (From the Embassy). read more »

The interim government that removed President Manuel Zelaya has signed a four-month contract worth $290,000 with Chlopak, Leonard, Schechter & Associates, the legislative newspaper The Hill reports. The firm will reach out to Washington aides, opinion leaders and news organizations, The Hill says, citing Justice Department documents. read more »

Hours after authorities suspended key civil liberties for 45 days, soldiers raided and closed two media that have been critical of the interim government: Radio Globo and Cholusat Sur TV (Canal 36), BBC reports. Both broadcasters have given voice to the resistance movement since President Manuel Zelaya was removed from office June 28. read more »

Manuel Zelaya’s return has amplified the nation’s media war—“one in which the government’s voice is the loudest, but in which Mr. Zelaya is a skilled and equally slippery combatant,” The New York Times reports. “Each side argues that it is countering the other side’s lies.” read more »

Manuel Zelaya’s refuge in Brazil’s embassy kept reporters of all stripes filing bulletins and updates since his return to Honduras Monday, Sept. 21. Telesur led the coverage as it did last June, broadcasting live. read more »

Eight attackers stormed the offices of a radio station and TV outlet in Tegucigalpa that are critical of the interim government that removed Manuel Zelaya, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports. They threatened guards and sprayed acid on broadcasting equipment, ending the broadcasts of a concert in support of the ousted president. read more »

Following a new wave of attacks, Reporters without Borders has called for the end of violence against the press, saying that the interim government is “reaping what it sowed” for its actions against the media following the coup, Europa Press and read more »

Catalina Botero, the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), said there are “permanent forms of exclusion and censorship” in the wake of the coup that overthrew Manuel Zelaya, Telesur reports read more »

Despite the interim government's lifting of a two-week curfew, several journalists from the Telesur and the State-owned Venezolana de Televisión (VTV) network have abandoned Honduras after they were arrested and threatened by police in Tegucigalpa, La Tribuna reports. read more »

Bernardo Rivera, a journalist and former member of Congress, was kidnapped March 14 and apparently killed by his captors, EFE reports, citing a police spokesman. read more »

We’ve heard all along how press freedom has been violated since Manuel Zelaya’s ouster. “Part of the damage was self inflicted,” Carlos Lauría writes for the Committee to Protect Journalists. “Some media outlets have slanted coverage to favor the coup leaders.” read more »

Young Hondurans opposed to the expulsion of President Manuel Zelaya are uploading amateur videos and cell-phone photos to YouTube in what they have branded a “tele-coup,” France’s AFP news agency reports.

Under control by the interim government, national channels have offered biased political coverage and have often cut off cable channels to broadcast their message, AFP’s Henry Orrego says. read more »

Only a few days into the Honduran crisis, and long before Sunday’s standoff at Tegucigalpa’s airport, Argentine-born journalist Marcelo Ballve wrote for New America Media that “whatever happens in Honduras, the crisis has been tremendously good to Telesur TV,” which has broadcast live from Hondur read more »

Radio broadcaster Gabriel Fino Noriega was shot three times by an unidentified, man, allegedly over “personal animosity,” EFE reports. read more »