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 […]

Unknown gunmen shot a Mexican journalist dead on Friday in the country’s first murder of a journalist this year. AP reported that journalist Raul Quirino Garza, a municipal employee who also worked for local weekly newspaper La Ultima Palabra, was killed on Friday in the state of Monterrey. A spokesman for the state detectives agency, […]

In 2011, 12-31  journalists were killed because of their work, according to the International Press Institute (IPI) Death Watch. Reporters and cameramen faced a range of threats. Some were in the wrong place at the wrong time, on the job when natural disaster struck or bombs exploded. But almost all of the journalists killed in […]