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Journalists in Mexico protest violence against the media. They say they do not trust the government to protect them anymore. (AP/Guillermo Arias)

Program to protect reporters raises doubts in Mexico

November 9, 2010 3:44 PM EST

The Mexican government is currently putting together a program, it says, that will help reduce one of the most brutal problems for journalists: their lack of protection from death threats from drug cartels, government officials, and ordinary criminals. Senior officials at the Ministry of Interior told CPJ that they expect to offer at-risk journalists a…

Mexican reporter killed in Matamoros crossfire

November 8, 2010 12:57 PM EST

New York, November 8, 2010–The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for a thorough investigation into the shooting death of crime reporter Carlos Alberto Guajardo Romero, who was killed on Friday during crossfire between the Mexican army and gunmen in the border city of Matamoros, local news reports said. The shooting was among a series…

Fernando Garavito, man of letters, dies in exile

November 8, 2010 11:02 AM EST

It’s hard to trace things to their origin. But had I not met exiled Colombian journalist Fernando Garavito in early 2004, I don’t know that I would have chosen to work, professionally, as a defender of freedom of expression.

Brad Will’s mother: ‘No movement’ in case four years on

November 5, 2010 10:47 AM EDT

Last week marked the fourth anniversary of the murder of Brad Will, a 36-year-old American activist and journalist who was shot while covering anti-government protests in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. His murderers remain at large.

Internet Blotter

November 4, 2010 4:17 PM EDT

Turkey lifted its ban on YouTube and then re-asserted it within the same week. Digital technology is helping get news out of North Korea. Small digital cameras and tiny SD memory cards make it easier to smuggle images out. In China, meanwhile, Amazon’s Kindle 3G e-reader is reportedly being used to get the news in.…

Online freedom of expression in Latin America

November 2, 2010 3:12 PM EDT

On his blog, El Oso, David Sasaki has just finished up the third and last part in his series, “Internet Censorship and Freedom of Expression in Latin America.” It’s a brilliant overview of current political and social pressures on free speech and online reporting in the region. Some key observations: Direct governmental censorship in Latin…

Protecting journalists from Firesheep

October 26, 2010 9:34 AM EDT

There’s been a great deal of coverage in the last day or so of Firesheep, a plugin for Firefox that lets you take over the Facebook and Twitter accounts of others on your local network. If you use Firesheep, you can pick one of the people on, say, the same open wireless at your nearby…

Internet blotter

October 20, 2010 4:58 PM EDT

CPJ protested the arrest of Bahrain blogger Ali Abdel Imam back in September — The Wall Street Journal has a story on his continuing detainment. Activism around the imprisonment of Canadian-Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan continues: PEN Canada is focusing on his case and Canada and France’s foreign ministers have urged his release. Local Thai ISPs are…

Radio reporter shot dead in Brazil; suspect arrested

October 20, 2010 2:59 PM EDT

New York, October 20, 2010–Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of killing radio reporter Francisco Gomes de Medeiros in the city of Caicó, state of Rio Grande do Norte, local press reports said. Gomes was shot to death Monday in front of his house. The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the arrest and…

U.S. Senate candidate’s security guards handcuff editor

October 18, 2010 4:35 PM EDT

Private security personnel working for Joe Miller, Alaska’s Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, detained and handcuffed a local editor on October 17, 2010, when he persisted in questioning Miller at a town hall event.