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CPJ,
Latin American journalists and writers, call for the release
of imprisoned Cuban journalists
The Committee for the Protection of
Journalists
In an
open letter to the Cuban government, the Committee for the
Protection of Journalists and more than 100 Latin American
journalists and writers called for the release of Cuban journalists
imprisoned two years ago.
Money-laundering
scandal involving former Chilean dictator unfolds
By Elizabeth Baier
The Supreme
Court assigned Judge Sergio Muñoz to investigate the
former general's wealth.
May
3, World Press Freedom Day
By
John Virtue
Cuba has
the largest number of journalists in prison of any country
in the world. The 28 journalists suffering in Cuban prisons
is two more imprisoned journalists than in runnerup China,
which has 100 times the population of Cuba.
Fidel
Stole My Students
By
Lafitte Fernández
Lafitte
Fernández, editor of El Diario de Hoy, in San
Salvador, El Salvador, was getting ready to travel to Cuba
to conduct a workshop for approximately 20 independent journalists,
after having been asked to do so by an international journalists’
organization. Shortly before he was to leave, he received
an e-mail that read: “Fidel jailed all your students.”
This is a story about a group of men whose only crime was
to believe that they could write about the regime in Cuba.
Miami
Herald
Launches Daily in Mexico City
By
Mark Fitzgerald
Two months
after Mexico City's only English-language daily folded, The
Miami Herald has partnered with El Universal, the
capital's biggest-selling newspaper, to launch an English-language
edition.
International
Press Freedom Award Recepient Granted U. S. Asylum
By
The Committee to Protect Journalists
Cuban
independent journalist and Committee to Protect Journalists
International Press Freedom awardee Jesús Joel Díaz
Hernández has left Cuba for the United States, where
he has been granted political asylum.
Texas
journalist released from jail
By
The Comittee to Protect Journalists
Leggett
could still receive another federal grand jury subpoena or
face criminal contempt charges.
Two
aspects of independent journalism in Cuba:
The
curious think a journalist should know everything
By
Manuel Vázquez Portal, Grupo Decoro / CubaNet
In Cuba,
information is a prerogative, a state secret. Not even the
government's own journalists have all the information.
E-mail
now available to Cubans
From
the CubaNet news service
The
Cuban Post Office Station No. 6, in Havana, is offering
e-mail accounts —although not Internet access—
over its computers for $4.50 for a three-hour card.
Colombia's
Worst Enemy of the Press, Carlos Castaño
By
The Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee
to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in New York has released a special
report titled "Bad Press" on right-wing paramilitary
leader Carlos Castaño's brutal campaign against journalists
in Colombia.
Professionalism
vs. Partisanship in Nicaraguan Newsrooms
Journalists Apply New Professional Standards
By
Kris Kodrich
On July
4, the three main presidential candidates for this year's
Nov. 4 election all signed the Declaration of Chapultepec,
a document based on the concept that no law or act of government
may limit freedom of expression or the press.
While
the ceremony might indicate a smooth road ahead for the Nicaraguan
press, journalists in this Central American country have a
different opinion. As the nation prepares for a change in
leadership, journalists cite a couple of reasons for concern.
Radio
as a Model for Democratic Participation
By
Benjamín Fernández
The high
levels of illiteracy in Latin America, as high as 40 per cent
in some countries, lead us to recognize a harsh reality: people
read little but listen a lot. This non-reading, auditory culture
has spurred the development of various models of radio to
reach the people.
Press
Freedom: Ten Years
On…
By
Timothy Balding
World Association of Newspapers
On 3 May
2001, media world-wide will celebrate the tenth edition of
World Press Freedom Day. To what extent have the aspirations
of the press to freedom been realised... in the past decade?
Chilean
Congress Repeals "Disrespect" Statute
By
The Comittee to Protect Journalists
First
proposed eight years ago, the new "Law on Freedoms of Opinion
and Information and the Practice of Journalism," known as
the "Press Law," passed the Chamber of Deputies on April 10.
The Senate approved the bill on April 18.
Will
La Prensa of Panama Continue to Be a Role Model?
By John Virtue
Will La Prensa
in the future continue to be a model for other newspapers
in Latin America, or will it end up like newspapers such as
El Gráfico of Guatemala, which lost credibility
and closed after it was used as a political organ when its
publisher, Jorge Carpio, ran unsuccessfully for the presidency?
The
Press and the Peruvian Crisis
By Ricardo Uceda
How much did the
press contribute to the disclosure of the transgressions of
the Fujimori-Montesinos regime in Peru? A look at the history
of the last few years shows that many of the things that surprise
us now had been reported earlier.
New
Challenges for the Media In México
By Fernando Mejía
The election of
Vicente Fox to the presidency in July, 2000 marked a watershed
in Mexican politics, putting an end to 71 years of dominance
by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) and to Mexico
as a one-party state. Mexican media played a double role in
this transition, reporting on events as they happened and
being themselves subject to the changes.
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