Prominent Mexican journalist Miguel Angel Lopez Velasco was shot to death along with his wife and son by gunmen who broke into their home in the city of Veracruz early Monday morning. A motive for the murders has not been determined, but Lopez Velasco’s role as the editor of newspaper Notiver established him as a […]

Mexican columnist and reporter Angel Castillo Corona and his 16-year-old son were killed in the early hours of Sunday, 3 July, while driving home. Police informed Mexican newspapers that at around 3:30 am they were intercepted on the Mexico – Santiago – Chalma road, allegedly by carjackers. The journalist was brutally beaten, while his son […]

A Mexican journalist abducted by gunmen earlier this week in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa was found dead yesterday. Police found the body of Humberto Millán Salazar, the editor of online newspaper A Discusión and a morning news presenter on Radio Fórmula, in a farm building outside the state capital of Culiacán with a […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today commemorated International Women’s Day by remembering eight female journalists who were murdered around the world in the past year and calling on authorities to bring their killers to justice. “The tragic deaths of eight of our female colleagues in Honduras, Mexico, Syria, Iraq, the Philippines and Bangladesh in the […]