Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is “widely regarded as one of the court’s most vigilant defenders of First Amendment values,” The New York Times says. But after he spoke to high school students at The Dalton School in New York City, his office told the school newspaper, the Daltonian, it couldn’t publish an article about Kennedy without his prior approval. read more »

Since July 31, O Estado de S. Paulo has not been allowed to publish stories involving the son of former president and current Senate leader José Sarney. read more »

An opinion piece in the state-run Cuban daily Juventud Rebelde criticizes the “unhealthy obsession” and “paranoia” of officials who censor information and turn a blind eye to criticism in the name of protecting the country's image, EFE reports. read more »

Reporter Alexei Barrionuevo uses recent charges of censorship in Brazil to introduce a story about new opposition to Latin American journalists for Sunday’s The New York Times. read more »

We show off the good and hide the bad, said ex-Brazilian finance minister Rubens Ricúpero, a cliché now informally known as “Ricúpero's Law.” read more »

The President of the Brazilian Senate, José Sarney, released an official statement in which he denied censoring the press. The leader's son, Fernando Sarney, went to court and won a ruling prohibiting the newspaper O Estado de S. read more »

Some 206 private radio stations are expected to be closed by the government in the coming days, joining 34 stations in 11 states that were shut down indefinitely over the weekend, CNN International reports. (See this story and clip from the BBC.) 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 »

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 »

The provisional government has continued to keep off the air several radio and TV stations that it considers loyal to President Manuel Zelaya, Italy’s ANSA news agency reports from Tegucigalpa. Among those stations is Channel 36, whose director and owner reports that it has been off the air for more than 100 hours, its facilities occupied by armed soliders. read more »

Amid local tension and international pressure to restore Manuel Zelaya to office, broadcasters that remained on the air are reporting only news that is friendly to the new government, and several newspapers have yet to publish information about Zelaya's international support from its neighbors, Frances Robles reports for the MIami Herald. read more »

While Manuel Zelaya gained international support Tuesday and planned a return to Honduras, his supporters clashed in the streets amid a media blackout that has drawn condemnation from international press freedom groups, including this Tuesday report from the Committee to Protect Journalists. read more »

The country’s two leading radio networks, Radio América and Radio HRN, opponents of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, called on Hondurans early Monday to resume their normal activities and not to follow citizen organizations that are pushing to restore Zelaya to office, Italy’s ANSA news agency reports from Tegucigalpa. read more »

The Supreme Court upheld the government's power to order the withdrawal of any message broadcast by radio and television which, according to the government's criteria, can threaten the safety of the nation and the values of the Republic, El Tiempo reports. read more »

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) ranked Cuba the fourth worst country for bloggers. read more »

The group Red de Libertad (Liberty Network) announced that it is collecting signatures from across the island to urge Havana to allow all Cubans to access the Internet, El Nuevo Herald reports. The campaign seeks legal connections to Internet through independent servers instead of those sponsored by the State. read more »

"Silenced Voices" (Voces silenciadas), a documentary by filmmaker María del Carmen de Lara, focuses on the erosion of freedom of expression in Mexico. According to La Jornada, the film emphasizes the deaths and aggressions suffered by Mexican journalists in recent years but also highlights the work of journalists who have fought to report the truth. read more »

The cancellation of the radio program "Puntos de Vista" (Points of View) has raised concerns that the government has a new strategy of restricting critical voices this electoral year, Carlos Lauría reports for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). read more »

The newspaper El Comercio of Ecuador interviews Luis Miguel González, editor of the paper Público en Mexico, trying to make a parallel between Mexico's press climate under the PRI and Ecuador's current government.

The PRI, which ruled Mexico for 70 years, exercised such control that when the government didn't want news about a particular situation published, the media owners had to adhere, Gonzáles says. read more »