Murders, harassment and disappearances. The reality of Latin American journalists in the XXI century

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https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2017-1226

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Journalism, Latin America, aggression, violence, threats

Abstract

Journalists in Latin America continue to face numerous threats in the exercise of their journalistic profession, which has increased the concern of the international community over its protection in recent years. Methodology: The objective of this research is to analyse nearly 500 cases of murders and disappearances in Latin America from 2000 to the present, as well as to elaborate on a profuse bibliographic review of the main sources of information and national and international programs in this regard. Results and conclusions: The results show a considerable gap between the international willingness to create programs for the protection and fight against impunity, the complex and insecure national realities in the region, and the number of information professionals who died or disappeared violently in Latin America.

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Author Biographies

Bernardo Díaz Nosty, University of Málaga

Bernardo Díaz Nosty studied Journalism and Political Sciences in Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he graduated with extraordinary award. Chair professor of Journalism in Universidad de Málaga, where he was founder Dean of the Faculty of Communication and Director of the Department of Journalism. Director of the unesco Chair in Communication of Universidad de Málaga, belonging to different committees of academic publications and of academic interest. He has taught courses in European and American universities. Creator and editor of the Infoamérica website (www.infoamerica.org) and of the Observatory of Press Freedom of Latin America. He has been member of the Administration Council of rtva and president of the Administration Council of the Public Entity of Communication of Asturias.

Author of more than 30 books, among some of them: La nueva identidad de la prensa (1987), Los medios y la hipótesis de la democracia degradada (1995), La mejora de la práctica docente en comunicación periodística (1996), La comunicación en Andalucía. Estado y tendencias (1999), Los medios y la modernización de Andalucía (2002), La prensa diaria en la UE (2003), El déficit mediático. Donde España no converge con Europa (Barcelona, Bosch, 2005), Medios de Comunicación: el escenario iberoamericano (Barcelona, Ariel, 2007), El ancho estrecho: las dos orillas de los medios (Barcelona, Icaria, 2008), Comunicación, convergencia e integración en América Latina (Valencia, Pre-textos 2010), El libro negro del periodismo en España (Madrid, APM, 2011), La prensa en el nuevo ecosistema informativo (Barcelona, Ariel, 2013), Periodismo muerto (Ciudad de México, Planeta, 2016), and 2007-2017: Diez años que cambiaron los medios (Barcelona, Ariel, 2017).

Ruth A. de Frutos García, University of Malaga

Ruth de Frutos is coordinator of the unesco Chair of Communication of Universidad de Málaga managed by the professor Díaz Nosty. Doctor in Journalism with international mention by the University of Malaga with outstanding Cum Laude award in 2014, for a doctorate dissertation about mediatic cultural indicators by which it was awarded with the Extraordinary Award of Doctorate 2015-2016 of the Doctorate Program “Education and Social Communication”. After the doctorate studies, she attended the Official Master’s Degree on International Cooperation and Development Politics of uma with which she obtained an Extraordinary Award of the Master’s degree of the Faculty of Communication Sciences.

Currently, she combines her functions as coordinator of the UNESCO Chair in Communication of Universidad de Málaga, with those of the membership of the Observatory of International Cooperation for Development of Universidad de Valladolid and Press responsible of International Amnesty in Málaga.

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2017-11-17

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Díaz Nosty, B., & de Frutos García, R. A. . (2017). Murders, harassment and disappearances. The reality of Latin American journalists in the XXI century. Revista Latina De Comunicación Social, (72), 1418–1434. https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2017-1226

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No. 72 (2017)

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