A digest of Web-based news on journalism in the Americas About this Service ARCHIVES Newest articles appear first. April 10, 2008 CANADA: Newspaper Readership Remains Strong, in Contrast to USA (Globe and Mail) added 02:16 PM » 2007 Readership Study (Canadian Newspaper Association) USA: How Live Blogging Makes Better Journalists (PoynterOnline) added 02:16 PM April 09, 2008 PERU: Ministries Deny Tapping Journalist's Phone (Associated Press/El Comercio) added 05:54 PM » Editor Demands Punishment of Those Who Tapped his Phone (El Comercio) » Newspaper Finds Phone Listening Device Near Editor's Home (El Comercio) » Espionage Continues in Peru (El País) GUYANA: Government Resumes Advertising with Newspaper, Ending a 17-Month Boycott (Stabroek News) added 05:54 PM » Cutting Government Ads from Paper Threatens Press Freedom, OAS Says (2007) (Caribbean360.com) COLOMBIA: Media's Role Recalled on 60th Anniversary of 'The Violence' (Semana.com) added 05:54 PM USA: CBS to Consider Reducing Its Own Reporting, Buying CNN News Feeds, Two Executives Say (The New York Times) added 05:54 PM USA: Layoffs of CBS Veterans Signal Industry in Crisis (Los Angeles Times) added 03:06 PM » CBS News Operations to Cut Jobs (Reuters ) VENEZUELA: Miami-based Opposition Radio Station Struggles Financially for Lack of Ads (Miami Herald) added 03:06 PM MEXICO: Four Men Convicted and Sentenced to 11 Years Each for Photographer's Murder in 2004 (CPJ) added 10:12 AM BRAZIL: Globo Newspaper is New Target of Lawsuits by Church Members (Livre Acesso) added 10:12 AM » Church and its Followers Filing Dozens of Lawsuits Against Newspapers and Journalists (O Globo) BRAZIL: Editor Fired from New Public TV System Accuses Government of Political Interference (O Globo) added 09:56 AM » New Public TV System Criticized as Outlet for 'Political Journalism' (December 2007) (BBC Brasil) April 08, 2008 LATIN AMERICA: OAS Reports 16 Journalist Killings in 2007, and Increased Governmental Coercion of Media (Terra Actualidad/EFE) added 01:14 PM » OAS Member Countries Urged to Resolve Impunity in Killings of Journalists (OAS (OEA) Inter-American Commission on Human Rights) WORLD: Mexican Reporters and Cuban Blogger Win Prestigious Spanish Journalism Prize (El País) added 01:14 PM » Cuban Blogger Wins Spanish Digital Journalism Prize (Reuters/Caribbean Net News) April 07, 2008 BRAZIL: Twenty Journalists Arrested During Dictatorship to Receive Indemnities from Government (Comunique-se) added 06:26 PM » Journalists Who Were Arrested to Receive Greater Pay than Colleague Killed in Dictatorship (Blog do Paulo Moreira Leite) » To Mark 100 Years of Press Association, Government to Hear Amnesty Cases of 20 Journalists Persecuted From 1946-1988 (Folha Online) USA: Washington Post Captures Six Pulitzers; New York Times Wins Two (Editor & Publisher/Associated Press/Folha Online) added 06:25 PM » The Pulitzer Prize Winners, 2008 (The Pulitzer Prizes) » Online Journalism's Growing Role in the Pulitzer Prizes (Poynteronline) <<  >>   Search the News Monitor View Knight Center news briefings by country Select a Country ANTIGUA & BARBUDA ARGENTINA ARUBA BAHAMAS BARBADOS BELIZE BOLIVIA BRAZIL CANADA CAYMAN ISLANDS CHILE COLOMBIA COSTA RICA CUBA DOMINICA DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ECUADOR EL SALVADOR FRENCH GUIANA GRENADA GUADELOUPE GUATEMALA GUYANA HAITI HONDURAS JAMAICA LATIN AMERICA MARTINIQUE MEXICO NICARAGUA PANAMA PARAGUAY PERU PUERTO RICO ST. KITTS AND NEVIS ST. LUCIA ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES SURINAME TRINIDAD & TOBAGO TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS URUGUAY USA VENEZUELA VIRGIN ISLANDS Search by Keyword You can search our entire database by entering a keyword. Subscribe to Newsletter Receive our weekly newsletter about journalism in the Americas. Choose your language: English   Español   Português    Please enter your e-mail address. Read more about the Knight Center Newsletter.

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