Read this article in English En un pequeño poblado en la provincia argentina de La Pampa, el editor de un periódico fue agredido el 19 de enero por la esposa y el hijo del vice-intendente local, luego de haber publicado un artículo que criticaba al gobierno municipal. Un periódico comunitario de 26 años de edad […]

Lea este artículo en español In a tiny town in Argentina’s sparsely populated La Pampa province, a newspaper editor was assaulted on 19 January by the wife and son of the town’s deputy mayor after publishing a piece critical of the municipal government. A 26-year-old community newspaper in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with a circulation of […]

Jhonny Alberto Salazar, a councillor for Nagua and journalist for Vida FM and vidadominicana.com, has been found guilty of libelling lawyer, Pedro Baldera Gomez. Salazar could be the first journalist to go to jail in the Dominican Republic for defamation. Salazar made comments on his radio station about a number of murders in the area […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) said today that it was pleased Dominican Republic officials have brought charges against police who allegedly plotted to murder a journalist, and called for further action to address the disturbing number of attacks on journalists this year. Authorities on Monday announced charges against five officers accused of plotting to murder […]