It is hard to get shocked with Mexico's daily news. But earlier this month viewers of Televisa, Mexico´s largest television network, were treated to...
Mexican media in-fighting deepens
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CATEGORY: Americas
Gay rights and the church clash
The fact that the governor of the ultra conservative state of Jalisco used public funds to bring Richard Cohen, an author and conversion therapist...
Mexico’s regional press falls silent
In the last year, foreign and Mexican news reports have relayed the dangers faced by the Mexican provincial media by recounting anecdotes of...
Phonetapping on the rise in Mexico
It was the scandal of the week. A clandestine telephone interception revealed the conversation between two top executives from Stendhal and...
Sex, divorce, censorship and the church
Las Aparicio, a telenovela produced by Argos Comunicacion, the cutting-edge Mexican production house headed by Epigmenio Ibarra and his wife...
Mexico’s narcomedia takes over
The drug war continues to challenge the ways in which news and stories are disseminated in Mexico. While the newsmedia in many regions of this...
Mexico’s provincial journalists debate protection
Mexico continues to be an important destination for press freedom organisations. The Inter American Press Association and the New York-based...
Drug cartels divide the Mexican press
“What do you want from us?”, El Diario de Juarez asked the two drug cartels fighting for control of Ciudad Juarez, one of the most important cities...
Commercial conflicts hampering efforts to unite Mexican media workers
A battle is brewing between two Mexican media giants: Grupo Reforma and the television network Televisa. This might seem to be a debate about...
Mexican media groups must unite against threats to press freedom
The visit by the two rappourteurs of freedom of expression from the Organisation of American States and the United Nations, Carolina Botero and...
Reporters march in Mexico
Just a few days after several thousand reporters marched in Mexico City and other cities across the country to protest attacks against the press,...
Radio stations under attack
Two Venezuelan radio stations were shut down, their equipment seized and their offices sealed by military personnel on 18 August. Both stations,...
