A Brazilian journalist who ran a local news website in a small city in the country's central Goiás state was shot and killed outside his home after reportedly receiving death threats. João Miranda do Carmo,…
Three journalists abducted by Colombia's second largest rebel group were freed May 27. Spanish journalist Salud Hernandez, from the Spanish newspaper El Mundo and Colombia’s El Tiempo, went missing May 21 while covering a story on…
Supporters of Ecuador President Rafael Correa have launched an online campaign targeting journalists involved with the Panama Papers investigation after Correa tweeted the names of the reporters earlier this month. On April 12, Correa tweeted the…
A Brazilian journalist was shot by a gunman on a motorcycle outside his home in a small town in the northwestern Brazilian state Rondônia. Ivan Pereira Costa, a journalist and founder of news site Veja…
A court in Venezuela has sentenced the editor of an independent newspaper to four years in prison for criminal defamation after reporting on corruption at a government-owned mining firm. Natera Febres, editor of the newspaper…
A newspaper reporter in southern Mexico has been shot dead, the third journalist slain in less than a year in Mexico's southern Oaxaca state. Marcos Hernández Bautista, 38, was shot in the head Jan. 21 as…
A Brazilian radio host has been slain by a group of gunmen who chased him in his car before shooting him to death in a rural area of eastern Brazil. Luiz Manoel Souza, 48, was…
A Brazilian radio journalist was killed in the early hours of Nov. 10, making him the fourth journalist to be killed this year in Brazil. Israel Gonçalves Silva had just dropped his children off to school when…
Brazilian police have arrested three suspects for the 2013 killing of an editor of a newspaper in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro. The three men are alleged to belong to a local "militia" gang…
A press freedom group in Ecuador that has criticized restrictions on the media by President Rafael Correa's government may be closed after a government agency accused it of being "political." Fundamedios, Ecuador’s sole independent press…
