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Video: FOPEA, FOE Champion

6 June 2013

The Foro de Periodismo Argentino, or FOPEA, is an organisation based in Buenos Aires and founded in 2002 by a group of journalists concerned with a lack of ethical and professional standards within the profession.

Argentine journalist's car set on fire

FOPEA condemns the fact that journalist Maximiliano Pascual's car was intentionally set on fire. Pascual is the co-owner and editor of the weekly La Posta Hoy, an Argentinian paper that often takes a critical editorial line.

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎30 April 2013

Argentina Attacks

Argentinian radio station set on fire, local mayor suspected

The owner of Radio Génesis in Formosa province, Argentina, suspects that individuals linked to the local and provincial authorities may be behind a fire deliberately set at the station.

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎ 9 April 2013

Argentina Attacks

Argentinian journalists' car set on fire after report on drug trade

FOPEA is concerned about a fire set in a car belonging to Raúl and Víctor Cortez, journalists for the VideoTar TV station in Tartagal, Salta on Monday 18 March 2013.

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎20 March 2013

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Media vehicles come under attack in Argentina

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎

Attacks 21 December 2012
Polarized Argentinian media can benefit from new law

‎Reporters Without Borders‎

Free Expression & the Law 6 December 2012
Media group's lawsuit latest move in battle with Argentinian president

‎Committee to Protect Journalists, Foro de Periodismo Argentino, Inter American Press Association‎

Free Expression & the Law 3 December 2012
Argentinian journalist receives threats over his reporting

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎

Attacks 28 November 2012
Newspaper kiosk fire is latest threat to daily in Argentina

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎

Attacks 14 November 2012
Argentinian photographer beaten while covering police operation

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎

Attacks 13 November 2012
Argentinian journalist continues to suffer judicial persecution

‎Reporters Without Borders‎

Free Expression & the Law 31 October 2012
In government-media fight, Argentinian journalism suffers

‎Committee to Protect Journalists‎

Free Expression & the Law 28 September 2012
Argentinian government threatens to sell off media group licenses

‎Inter American Press Association‎

Attacks 26 September 2012
Radio station owner brutally attacked in Argentina

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎

Attacks 6 September 2012
Argentinian journalist's home attacked with molotov cocktail

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎

Attacks 23 August 2012
Local leader threatens radio journalist at gunpoint in northeastern Argentina

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎

Attacks 16 August 2012
Journalist attacked, threatened with having his house burned down

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎

16 June 2012
Journalist threatened at gunpoint by radio station intruder

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎

1 June 2012
FOPEA condemns death threats against journalists in Reconquista, Santa Fe

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎

14 May 2012
Journalist threatened after investigating drug trafficking

‎International Press Institute‎

5 April 2012
Reporter and journalism student threatened by armed assailants

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎

21 February 2012
Journalist attacked, injured by political activists in Santa Cruz

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎

25 January 2012
Canal 7 journalist and camera operator attacked

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎

2 January 2012
IAPA trusts that law regulating newsprint will be declared unconstitutional

‎Inter American Press Association‎

28 December 2011
IAPA renews its rejection of interference by government in newsprint production

‎Inter American Press Association‎

16 December 2011
Misiones radio station off the air following arson attack

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎

18 November 2011
Arson attack on "La Verdad" newspaper in Junin

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎

9 November 2011
"Dirty War" generals sentenced, multiple radio stations attacked

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2 November 2011
Reporters' van shot at in Cordoba

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎

1 November 2011
Journalist's killers convicted

‎Foro de Periodismo Argentino‎

28 October 2011

At a glance

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Key reports and information

Midyear Meeting Report 2012: Argentina

Newsprint regulation, Law 26,736, will bring a "dark precedents for press freedom"

Inter American Press Association 23 April 2012
Attacks on the Press in 2011: Argentina

Federal Court sentences 16 military members in decades-old murder of journalist Rodolfo Walsh

Committee to Protect Journalists 22 February 2012
Press Freedom Index 2011-2012: Argentina

Little change in press freedom situation as nation ties for 47th place on annual index

Reporters Without Borders 26 January 2012
World Report 2012: Argentina

Supreme Courts curtails government practise of rewarding supportive media with state advertising contracts

Human Rights Watch 22 January 2012

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