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Attacks on the Press: Mexican Self-Censorship Takes Root

February 14, 2013 12:05 AM EST

Reporters can’t tell the public that organized crime has taken over a Mexican state. By Mike O’Connor

Soldiers stand in front of the offices of a news outlet that was attacked early Tuesday morning. (AFP/Julio Cesar Aguilar)

Three Mexican news outlets targeted in one day

July 11, 2012 5:10 PM EDT

New York, July 11, 2012–Unknown assailants using explosives, grenades, and guns attacked three news outlets in northern Mexico on Tuesday, causing property damage but no injuries, according to news reports.

Mexican journalist released after 24 hours in prison

July 11, 2012 10:27 AM EDT

Prominent Mexican journalist Sanjuana Martínez was arrested on July 5, 2012, in the state of Nuevo León under unclear circumstances related to a civil custody dispute, and was released from jail the following day, according to news reports. Martínez was detained by armed police, which is unusual in a civil case, the reports said.

CPJ concerned about arrest of Mexican journalist

July 6, 2012 12:14 PM EDT

New York, July 6, 2012–The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about the arrest of prominent Mexican journalist Sanjuana Martínez Thursday in Nuevo León under unclear circumstances related to a civil custody dispute. The judge who ordered the detention was the subject of critical reporting by Martínez in 2008.

Zeta reporter Sergio Haro in the film 'Reportero.' (Courtesy Quiet Pictures)

Film ‘Reportero’ features tenacious Mexican magazine

By Sara Rafsky/CPJ Americas Research Associate on June 29, 2012 5:42 PM EDT

A week before Sunday’s crucial presidential elections in Mexico, CPJ participated on a panel with filmmaker Bernardo Ruíz and Mexican journalist Sergio Haro about the perilous conditions for journalists in that country, where CPJ research shows 48 journalists have been murdered or disappeared since outgoing President Felipe Calderón took office in December 2006.

Missing Mexican reporter under protection of government

June 22, 2012 11:52 AM EDT

New York, June 22, 2012–Mexican crime journalist Stephania Cardoso, who had been missing with her son since June 8, is now under the protection of the federal government, a Mexican official has told CPJ.

Mexican crime reporter missing in Coahuila state

June 13, 2012 3:39 PM EDT

Mexico City, June 13, 2012–Mexican authorities must immediately investigate the case of a journalist and her son who have been missing since Friday morning, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Anti-press crime amendment offers hope for Mexican press

June 7, 2012 5:23 PM EDT

New York, June 7, 2012–The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the final approval yesterday of a constitutional amendment that makes attacks on the press a federal offense in Mexico, a country where journalists are regularly targeted for their work.

Investigators photograph graffiti implicating the Zeta cartel near where 49 corpses were found on the road near Monterrey, Mexico, on May 13. (AFP/Julio Cesar Aguilar)

El Mañana cedes battle to report on Mexican violence

By Mike O'Connor/CPJ Mexico Representative on May 23, 2012 3:13 PM EDT

They would tell you that the killers haven’t let them cover real news for several years–if you call news serious information that’s important to the public, like why the police didn’t investigate so many murders or kidnappings or extortions. Or why drugs were sold so openly. Or that three former governors are being investigated for…

Mexican journalists protest the murders of their colleagues. (AFP/Ronaldo Schemidt)

Mexican photographers murdered in Veracruz

May 4, 2012 6:29 PM EDT

New York, May 4, 2012–The bodies of two Mexican news photographers who specialized in the crime beat were found along with the bodies of a former photojournalist and a fourth individual in a canal in the city of Boca del Río, in Veracruz state, according to news reports.