Americas

Union workers at the Denver Post have voted to enter into formal discussions with the newspaper's owner to reopen contract talks in a bid to trim expenses at the ailing newspaper, the Associated Press (AP) has reported. Denver Post owner William Dean Singleton wants $2 million in wage and benefits givebacks from its union workers. That’s roughly 20-25 fulltime positions at the daily newspaper. The...

Raúl Wiener, the head of the investigative section of the left-wing Peruvian daily La Primera, has been charged with a “crime against public peace” and “terrorism” after revealing that the same charges had been brought against 13 leading Peruvian leftists with alleged links to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Wiener is due to be...

Unidentified individuals shot and injured a Venezuelan journalist outside the offices of the local daily El Regional in the southwestern Portuguesa province on Tuesday evening. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has today on Venezuelan authorities to investigate the attack and bring all those responsible to justice. At 6:20 p.m., unidentified individuals in a car shot Rafael...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned the sabotage attempt against LT6 Radio Goya in Corrientes, capital of the province of the same name in Argentina. Saboteurs cut through the cables of the radio’s aerial, preventing it from broadcasting on its usual frequency and reaching all its listeners. The 70-metre structure supporting the aerial collapsed suddenly on January 12 taking programmes...

USA Today publisher Gannett Co has imposed one-week unpaid furloughs for most of its US employees, saying the move could help minimize the need for further layoffs amid a severe advertising downturn, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Wednesday. USA Today also declared a one-year freeze on wages effective February 1. Although Gannett is regarded by many analysts as one of the most financially...

The mayor and local police of the town of San Pedro Jicayán, in the state of Oaxaca, burnt 1,000 copies of a newspaper and detained a newspaper vendor for several hours on January 11. The newspaper Noticias Voz e Imagen had published information that reflected poorly on the administration of Mayor Leonardo Silva Palacios, the Centro de Periodismo y Etica Publica (CEPET) has reported. While on his...

A Rio de Janeiro court that oversees sentence implementation has reversed a decision to put Cláudio Orlando "Ratinho" de Nascimento, one of the convicted killers of Rede Globo television reporter Tim Lopes, on a semi-release regime that let him out of prison by day to visit relatives and friends, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. The prison administration granted "Ratinho" semi-release...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned an attack on the home of Carlos Velasco Molina, editor of the weekly El Correo de Oaxaca, in the southwestern city of Oaxaca in the early hours of January 9. Two Molotov cocktails were thrown at his house, starting a fire but causing no injuries. Fearing the possibility of violence, Velasco had moved his family to a different location a few weeks ago...

The Washington Post named has two new managing editors with joint responsibility for its print and online editions, the paper reported. Elizabeth Spayd, 50, editor of washingtonpost.com, and Raju Narisetti, 42, founder editor of Indian newspaper Mint and former deputy managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, will report to Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli. In a statement, the newspaper...

GlobalPost, an online media company focused on foreign news, launched on Monday hoping to fill the dearth of international news coverage in recent years. The site has been launched by veteran journalist Charles Sennott who left the Boston Globe to start his own news organization. The free website, supported by ads, went live Monday and will offer regular dispatches for an American audience to...