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...
A 28-year-old middle school teacher at a private school in Mexico City has been fired after showing her students the 2008 film Milk, which tells the story of gay rights activist Harvey Milk, who was murdered in San Francisco in the 1970s. Mexico's...
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...
Attempts to push through a media law in Argentina could end up destroying one of the country's most critical broadcast outlets. Ed Stocker reports A bitter battle between Argentina’s largest media empire, Grupo Clarín, and the government shows no...
Violent confrontations in Mexico City on 1 December between police and thousands of demonstrators protesting the swearing in of President Enrique Peña Nieto continue to reverberate, as human rights and media protection organisations grapple with...
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...
In Mexico drug cartels continue to dictate news agenda — fear of retaliation influences news outlets’ decisions on what to publish. Ana Arana and Daniela Guazo reveal the results of a new study that exposes the depth to which the public are kept in the dark
On 30 October, the state government of Veracruz announced it had solved the murder of Proceso magazine reporter Regina Martinez, who was killed in April this year. In her 10 years as a Proseco journalist, Martinez had frequently reported on drug...