Organized crime has taken over Neza, a town on the outskirts of Mexico City, but journalists are not reporting on it because they fear for their lives, the late Mike O’Connor found in his final article for the Committee to Protect Journalists. The piece, entitled “Gunmen Rule Neza and the Press on Outskirts of Mexico…
The New York Times profiled the only journalist in the Americas on CPJ’s 2013 imprisoned list, Roger Shuler.Shuler was arrested on October 23 on contempt of court charges for failure to comply with an October 1 preliminary injunction prohibiting him from publishing certain stories on his blog Legal Schnauzer. The charges stem from a defamation suit brought by prominent local…
With the sudden death of CPJ Mexico Representative Mike O’Connor, 67, Mexican journalists have lost one of their most formidable advocates. Mike will be remembered as someone who was on the forefront of the struggle for press freedom. Below are some of the many tributes:The New York Times. The Guardian El Nuevo Herald AP The…
Geoffrey King, CPJ’s Internet Advocacy Coordinator, published a piece on PBS Media Shift about the absence of telecommunications companies signatures on an open letter calling for the US government “to take the lead and make reforms that ensure that government surveillance efforts are clearly restricted by law, proportionate to the risks, transparent, and subject to…