Americas

Fátima Monterrosa, an investigative journalist for the Mexican magazine Emeequis, has been subjected to threats after publishing an article entitled "A Viceroyalty Named Tlaxcala". The article exposed a series of anomalies in the administration of the state government of Tlaxcala. The work of Monterrosa is well known in the journalistic community in Mexico. She has worked as a press correspondent...

The McClatchy Company, the third-largest US newspaper publisher, announced plans Monday to cut its workforce by about 10 percent due to a "difficult advertising market" and other challenges, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). The move will mean about 1,400 job cuts including "both voluntary and involuntary separations" and attrition, according to the group based in Sacramento, California....

A Colombian journalist has been threatened and asked not to distribute his magazine in a remote town, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). On June 14, at 2:20 p.m. (local time) in the national capital, Bogotá, journalist Pedro Antonio Cárdenas was stopped by two men travelling on a motorcycle. After pointing a revolver at him, they threw him to the ground and beat him up...

Television journalist and NBC Bureau chief Tim Russert died of heart attack on June 13, aged 58. Russert died while at work in the NBC news bureau. "It is my sad duty to report this afternoon that my friend and colleague Tim Russert ... collapsed and died while at work in the NBC news bureau in Washington, DC," People quoted colleague Tom Brokaw, as saying in an NBC bulletin. "This news division...

The management of the Reporte de la Economía daily has accused a network of five bankers of being behind the murder of its vice-president, Pierre Fould Gerges, who was gunned down in Caracas on June 2. The newspaper's lawyer, Giselle Suárez, said at a news conference on June 9 that the investigation was focussing on a financial group that "constitutes an appendage of the state, which has created a...

At a time when newspapers across the United States are trimming sections and hundreds of pages, the Dallas Morning News is taking a 180-degree turn by rolling out a new print product, says an Editor & Publisher report. The new offering, titled Briefing, is a free, 16-page broadsheet that will be home delivered to non-subscribers of the Morning News every Wednesday through Saturday. It launches...

Mexican police botched the murder investigation of a journalist working near the US border in 2004 by torturing suspects and mishandling evidence, the country's human's rights commission said, according to a Reuters report. Roberto Mora, editorial director of El Manana newspaper in Nuevo Laredo, just across the border from Laredo, Texas, regularly wrote columns about drug trafficking and corrupt...

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has condemned the Cuban government for the arrest of and threats made to independent newsman Carlos Serpa Maceira, reminded it to observe tolerance of press freedom and called on it to free 25 journalists still imprisoned. In a telephone call to the IAPA Serpa Maceira, of the Sindical Press news agency and Cuba correspondent of the Sweden-based magazine...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) Monday called for light to be shed on a murder attempt against Aristeo Abundis Hernández, editor of the weekly Frente y Vuelta, in Panuco, Veracruz state in eastern Mexico who was shot at as he was driving home. It also condemned a threat against the daily El Correo de Tabasco and its editor Juan Padilla Herrera in which a severed human head—a typical drug-gang...

A man arrested on suspicion of being a member of a militia that abducted and tortured a reporter, photographer and driver of the O Dia newspaper in the Rio de Janeiro favela of Batan on May 14 was shown to the press on June 4 by members of a police unit known as the Delegation for Repression of Criminal Actions and Special Investigations (DRACO). He was identified as Davi Liberato de Araújo, 32...