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Fourth murder

Newspaper photographer gunned down in Minas Gerais

Published on 16 April 2013Read

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Execution-style

Journalist victim of execution-style killing, third this year

Published on 11 March 2013Read

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Radio host gunned down in northeast, drug trafficker suspected

Reporters Without Borders hopes the police will quickly solve the murder of Mafaldo Bezerra Goes, a local radio host who was gunned down in (...)

Published on 26 February 2013 Read

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Police think they have solved sports reporter’s murder

Reporters Without Borders notes that Mauricio Sampaio, the former deputy chairman of the Atlético-Goiás football club, was arrested during the (...)

Published on 4 February 2013 Read

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Thirty Berlusconis – South American giant’s flawed media landscape

Reporters Without Borders is today releasing a report entitled “Brazil, the country of 30 Berlusconis” that examines all of the shortcomings of (...)

Published on 24 January 2013 Read

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Rio radio station manager is first journalist murdered in Americas in 2013

Renato Machado Gonçalves, the manager and joint owner of Radio Barra FM in Rio de Janeiro state, has become the first journalist to be killed in (...)

Published on 9 January 2013 Read

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Bad year ends with two typical cases

Violence and local censorship threatened freedom of information in Brazil in 2012. Reporters Without Borders referred to this in the annual (...)

Published on 20 December 2012 Read

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Shooting attack on website owner’s home could be linked to colleague’s murder

Reporters Without Borders calls for urgent protection for Antônio Fabiano Portilho Coene, the owner of the Portal i9 news website, whose home in (...)

Published on 3 December 2012 Read

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Radio host shot dead in studio, 10th journalist killed this year

A radio host’s murder on the night of 28 October in Itabaiana, in the northeastern state of Sergipe, has brought the number of Brazilian (...)

Published on 30 October 2012 Read

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Police find journalist’s body, say murder was crime of passion

The journalist Anderson Leandro da Silva was the victim of a crime of passion, the Curitiba police said yesterday after finding Silva’s body and (...)

Published on 19 October 2012 Read