Tag: freedom of the press

• Thursday, July 25th 2024 - 20:56 UTC

  Venezuela: Foreign press accused of dirty campaign to cry “foul”

  

  While Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) Chairman Elvis Amoroso denounced that Western media outlets were behind a campaign seeking to taint next Sunday's presidential elections, Argentine reporter Jorge Pizarro of Buenos Aires' Radio Rivadavia was denied access into the country upon landing at Caracas' Simón Bolívar International Airport, from where he was deported via Panama after over six hours in detention.

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• Friday, June 7th 2024 - 20:40 UTC

  Buenos Aires media workers highly underpaid

  

  A survey conducted by the Union of Buenos Aires Journalists (SiPreBA) found that 3 out of every 4 newspeople in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) had wages below the poverty line. The study was released in the wake of the June 7 Journalist Day celebrations in Argentina. Over 1,000 media workers were interviewed.

• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Cuba cracks down on free journalism

  

  Following the July 2021 uprisings and how information left the island of Cuba and reached the world, the Communist regime has been revoking visas from foreign journalists, it was reported.

• Friday, July 22nd 2011 - 02:04 UTC

  International press blasts Ecuadorian court libel suit ruling on freedom of expression

  

  The International Press Institute (IPI) blasted an Ecuadorian court’s decision to jail a journalist and three executives of critical opposition daily El Universo for libeling President Rafael Correa, and to impose 40 million dollars in fines against the defendants and the newspaper.

• Friday, May 14th 2010 - 01:51 UTC

  Violence and Lack of Guarantees for Latam Journalists Exposed at OAS

  

  The Inter American Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression said that increasing violence against journalists and the impunity associated with these crimes are one of the main challenges of the Latin America and Caribbean region.

• Tuesday, May 4th 2010 - 04:41 UTC

  “Right to Know” Initiative on World Press Freedom Day

  

  A new global access to information initiative launched Monday to mark World Press Freedom Day, will test how easy (or not) it is to obtain information from 30 governments on their anti-corruption efforts.

• Monday, May 3rd 2010 - 20:31 UTC

  Drug Traffickers, Cuba and FARC, Latam’s Main Predators of Press Freedom

  

  There are 40 names on this year’s list of Predators of Press Freedom—40 politicians, government officials, religious leaders, militias and criminal organizations—that cannot stand the press, treat it as an enemy and directly attack journalists. They are powerful, dangerous, violent and above the law.