JOURNALISM IN THE AMERICAS Blog
Fact-checking journalism projects grow in Latin America and around the world
The number of fact-checking journalistic projects around the world has almost doubled between 2015 and 2016, according to an annual census of the Duke Reporters' Lab. According to the study, there are now 96 active fact-checking projects in 37 countries - in 2015, there were 64 projects, and 44 the previous year. Read more »
Journalists and media workers in Argentina protest against massive layoffs across the country
Hundreds of Argentinian press and media workers gathered in the streets of Buenos Aires on March 3 to protest mass layoffs affecting their industry, according to news portal La Izquierda Diario. Read more »
Journalists are one of the most affected groups in the midst of Mexico’s “human rights crisis”: IACHR report
Mexico is experiencing a “serious human rights crisis,” according to the recent report “Situation of Human Rights in Mexico” from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). According to the organization, the high rates of forced disappearances, torture, citizen insecurity, restricted access to justice and impunity generate special concern. Read more »
Violence against journalists increases in Honduras while impunity reigns, says IACHR report
About 96 percent of the murders of journalists and other media workers in Honduras remain in impunity, according to figures received by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that recently published the report “Situation of Human Rights in Honduras.” Read more »
Agência Pública announces cultural journalism center and map of independent journalism in Brazil
Agência Pública, a prime example of the independent media landscape in Brazil, has launched two innovations during the month of its five-year anniversary: a cultural center to support independent journalism and an unprecedented interactive map on new journalistic initiatives in the country. Read more »
ISOJ 2016: Yoani Sánchez will explain how and why she created 14ymedio, "Cuba’s first independent news platform"
Because of her desire to be an independent voice for Cuban society, Yoani Sánchez has been arrested, previously was prohibited from leaving her country and has been made the subject of smear campaigns. Despite those challenges, her independent news platform 14ymedio is approaching its second anniversary of delivering news and opinion from inside Cuba. Read more »
Venezuelan congress attempts legal reform to regularize licenses for hundreds of radio and TV stations
The Organic Telecommunications Law could change in Venezuela after José Gregorio Correa, a member of Congress for the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD by its initials in Spanish), presented a reform proposal before the Communications Media Commission of the National Assembly. Read more »
Twenty years of online journalism in Ibero-America covered for the first time in new book
The history of online journalism, or digital journalism, in Ibero-America can be traced back 20 years. However, there is not much literature on the topic. Read more »
Police commander arrested for murder of journalist in Mexico
A municipal policeman has been arrested as a suspect for the Jan. 21 murder of Oaxaca correspondent Marcos Hernández Bautista, the first of four journalists killed in Mexico this year.
Jorge Armando Santiago Martínez, a commander of the municipal police of Santiago Jamiltepec, was arrested on Feb. 25, according to Proceso. Read more »
Mexican news magazine Emeequis announces closure after 10 years
After ten years of producing investigative journalism recognized around the world, Mexican magazine Emeequis announced it will cease publication. Read more »
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