Press mobility in Aruba restricted during pandemic coverage Journalists and media excluded from exceptions during the curfew.
The IAPA awards the 2020 Press Freedom Grand Prize to journalists and press workers killed by COVID-19 "This is a very hard time for journalism because the pandemic has also claimed the lives of many members of our journalistic family," IAPA President Christopher Barnes.
IAPA 2018 balance: highs and lows of press freedom in the Americas In her evaluation of press freedom in the Americas during 2018, the president of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), María Elvira Domínguez, declared that advances in legal and digital issues were overshadowed by the murders of 31 journalists and media workers, the imprisonment of five others, and by the constant attacks on individual and social liberties in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
IAPA condemns stigmatization of the press, saying it puts journalists' lives at risk "The stigmatization and insults of the press, made by public officials and disseminated in social media, create a hostile climate for the press and incite violence against journalists and the media," said the IAPA president.
