LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center

Gabriela Biló, 37, a photojournalist for the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, had been taking pictures for less than an hour on Jan. 8, 2023 in Brasilia, when thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro

Not long after the ground began shaking across western Colombia on Aug. 10(opens in new tab), the country’s disaster response agency began putting numbers to the tragedy.

On its website, the 

Four years ago, reporter Valentina Parada Lugo was reporting in Nariño, the Colombian region with the highest coca production, when she began hearing stories from women who cook and clean for workers on coca farms.

Parada Lugo had experience covering drug eradication efforts in the department of Nariño, but this was the first time she encountered women who, although th...

A proposal by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s government has sparked a debate over how to balance press freedom with audiences’ right to receive accurate information.

Sheinbaum announced(opens in new tab) the proposal — titled “

Alejandro Leyva, the Mexican journalist who was killed in the state of Oaxaca on July 22, had sought state and federal protections for a year before his death.

Leyva had been the target of threats and a smear campaign. Known for his critical reporting on local officials, Leyva was convinced that the harassment came from the state government. On several occasions, in hi...