"Do you ever think about things that you do think about?" (Inherit the Wind)
In this edition Nicaraguan Journalism Celebrated Today, While Journalists Remain Under Siege. Young Nicaraguans Protest Inside the UCA. Editorial Cartoonists Reflect on Press Freedom on National Journalists’ Day. Nicaragua has reached day 318 since the beginning of the crisis. Today…
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On January 18, La Prensa published a blank front page, along with an editorial titled “Have you imagined what it is like to live without information?” The editors explained that after 20 weeks of waiting for Customs to clear a shipment of…
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(El Chipote, 2 de Julio 2018. Image by Jorge Mejia Peralta) European Parlamentarian Jose Inacio Faria (Portugal) was a member of the delegation that visited Nicaragua for four days (Jan 23-26). Like his colleague, Ana Gomes, Mr. Faria has decided to share his…
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La Prensa ran a front page article titled “The Deported are Missing”. The piece, by Martha Vasquez draws on the reporting by Sonia Osorio, a journalist and editor for El Nuevo Herald. Osorio’s story covers a press conference, given by Central…
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Back in the 1980s, the FSLN imposed a draconian censorship regime over the media. The government controlled the only two television stations in the country, and everything published in daily newspapers had to be approved by a censor. Yet even…
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The Knight Center for Journalism held a webinar, titled “Nicaraguan Journalism vs. Repression.” The webinar featured activist Tanya Amador and journalist Anibal Toruño. Amador decried the relative lack of international coverage about Nicaragua, and Toruño warned that Ortega might succeed…
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When Daniel Ortega became president in 2007, the relationship between the Nicaraguan government and the independent press changed dramatically. It’s not that the independent press had enjoyed a particularly easy relationship with the previous administrations. However, the governments of Chamorro,…
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I have been watching the olympics faithfully, but not on NBC. It’s one of the unexpected benefits of visiting my homeland, Nicaragua. Unlike NBC, our local licensee, Canal 10, is showing the London games live, and though their commercial breaks…
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On Saturday, January 22, Onward State “killed” Joe Paterno. It took two tweets: The tweets have since been removed from Onward State’s feed. The image above is a screen capture I took from Poyntner’s account of the incident. According to Poyntner,…
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