The Knight Center’s editorial staff prepares a newsletter every week that reports on journalism news in the Americas. Our articles are based on information selected from a broad range of web-based news publications. Subscribers receive a single email each Friday—a list of headline articles about journalism in the Americas. Each article is published in English, Spanish and Portuguese and contains links to the original news stories. Even when the original stories have been removed from the web our archived summaries serve as a permanent registry. The Knight Center does not share subscriber information with third parties. Email addresses are kept confidential and are strictly reserved for internal use. Weekly Knight Center Newsletter sent November 20, 2009 Ahead of protests, Nicaragua's opposition media report new threats and harassment Mexican police reporter disappears after reporting on arrest of crime boss Guatemala's president creates radio program to correct "wrong information" Argentina eliminates jail time for defamation CPJ honors five top journalists and seeks new support for expanded work IAPA lauds Argentine court ruling that returns journalist's killer to prison Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez grabs Washington's attention Opposition TV president says Chávez wants him in jail Former Bush spokeswoman picked to oversee U.S. foreign broadcasts Bolivian broadcast of alleged rape causes uproar Ecuador’s main dailies call for press freedom AP covers its own 90 job cuts; layoffs reduce Puerto Rico bureau Paparazzi feeling effects of the crisis Venezuelan university honors citizen journalism projects This weekly summary of news about journalism in the Americas is compiled in English, Spanish, and Portuguese by the staff of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin. Cheers, Knight Center Staff Producing more multimedia stories for a news site: El Salvador's "ElFaro" (The Lighthouse) Nov 23 Mexican police reporter vanishes after reporting arrest of crime boss Nov 20 Ahead of protests, Nicaragua's opposition media report new threats and harassment Nov 20 Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez grabs Washington's attention Nov 20 Guatemala's president creates radio program to correct "wrong information" Nov 20 Argentina eliminates jail time for defamation Nov 20 CPJ honors five top journalists and seeks new support for expanded work Nov 20 IAPA lauds Argentine court ruling that returns journalist's killer to prison Nov 19 Opposition TV president says Chávez wants him in jail Nov 19 Former Bush spokeswoman picked to oversee U.S. foreign broadcasts Nov 19 Bolivian broadcast of alleged rape causes uproar Nov 18 Ecuador’s main dailies make collective call for press freedom Nov 18 Visit our blog for latest news on journalism in the Americas Subscribe to Newsletter Receive our weekly newsletter about journalism in the Americas. Choose your language: English      Español     Português      Please enter your email address.

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