A report issued by world-wide non-profit organization Reporters Without Borders denounced Brazil's ever-worsening landscape for journalists --- citing violence and legal harassment against media professionals, as well as the heavy concentration of...
Brazil's Judiciary has approved the creation of a permanent forum about freedom of the press, with the goal of debating court rulings on the subject and preparing judges to making more well-founded decisions. The Judiciary’s National Forum on...
One of Brazil's largest daily newspapers claims that it has now faced censorship for 1,200 days, due to a court ruling prohibiting it from publishing news about a police operation that could incriminate a media tycoon --- who is also the son of a...
Tech giant Google is in the middle of a censorship debate in Brazil after its top executive in the country was temporarily detained during the latest mayoral election. Fabio Coelho was detained in September by order of a judge from the state of...
The Brazilian Congress’ lower house has killed a draft bill that would have pioneered the world's first “Internet Bill of Rights." Feted by free-speech activists and negotiated over several years, the bill used a civil rights framework to guarantee...