Tag: Reporters Without Borders

• Friday, February 13th 2015 - 09:16 UTC

  “Drastic decline” in media freedom worldwide in 2014 says RSF annual report

  

  Media freedom suffered a “drastic decline” worldwide last year in part because of extremist groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram, the watchdog group Reporters Without Borders said in its annual evaluation released Thursday.

• Tuesday, December 23rd 2014 - 04:17 UTC

  Broad Front Deputies pass Media Law bill in Uruguay

  

  New regulations for broadcast media about to be signed into law shortly. President-elect Tabare Vazquez also supports the move.

• Tuesday, December 16th 2014 - 20:54 UTC

  Uruguay's media law bill reaches Senate - Mujica warns of foreign sharks.

  

  President and journalists organisations deem LSCA necessary to avoid handing the media over to outside operators. They see no danger to freedom of speech in legislative project as it is.

• Saturday, February 15th 2014 - 10:24 UTC

  Brazil, the most dangerous country for Latam journalists, according to RSF

  

  More than 20 years after the fall of the dictatorships and civil wars that dominated Latin America, the region continues to be marked by a strong retaliation against the press, according to Reporters Without Borders, RSF, most recent annual index on the state of press freedom, which was published on Feb. 12.

• Friday, May 3rd 2013 - 02:41 UTC

  Freedom of the press in the America exposed to violence and intimidation from governments

  

  Violence, intimidation and polarization still obstruct reporting in Americas says the 2013 Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index which was released in anticipation of the World Press Freedom Day, May 3 (*). The report states that the ranking of most countries is no longer attributable to dramatic political developments and this year’s index is a better reflection of the attitudes and intentions of governments towards media freedom in the medium or long term.

• Thursday, January 3rd 2013 - 21:40 UTC

  Swiss organization says 141 journalists were killed in 2012

  

  A record number of journalists, 141 in 29 different countries, were killed globally in 2012, according to data of the Swiss-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), which fights for the protection of journalists. At least 28 of them were killed in Latinamerica.

• Thursday, December 20th 2012 - 06:02 UTC

  Record killing of journalists doing their jobs in 2012, according to RSF

  

  More journalists were killed doing their job in 2012 than in any year since monitoring started 17 years ago, with Syria and Somalia seeing a particularly heavy toll followed by Pakistan and Mexico, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Wednesday.

• Saturday, December 31st 2011 - 03:32 UTC

  More than 100 journalists killed in 2011; call on the UN for protection action

  

  More than 100 journalists or other media staffs were killed in 2011, up from last year's toll, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said, calling on UN Secretary General Bank Ki-moon to act to help protect the profession.

• Tuesday, February 15th 2011 - 23:02 UTC

  Worldwide in 2010, 44 journalists were killed; most vulnerable local reporters

  

  At least 44 journalists were killed worldwide because of their jobs last year, with Pakistan the deadliest country to work in, a rights group said Tuesday.

• 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.