The government of President Mauricio Macri reversed its predecessor’s pattern of hostility toward the private media, resuming regular press conferences and ending official criticism and harassment of specific journalists.
Freedom House
28 April 2017
Macri used presidential decrees to replace the leadership of the two main media regulators and merge them into a new entity under the Ministry of Communications
Freedom House
23 April 2016
Supreme Court rules search engines not responsible for user generated content that violates rights or infinges copyright
Freedom House
31 October 2015
Ranked 107th in annual global media freedom report
Freedom House
1 May 2015
Ranked 106th in annual global media freedom report
Freedom House
1 May 2014
Supreme Court upholds Media Law to diversify ownership in the heavily concentrated broadcast sector
Freedom House
1 May 2014
"A fertile year for attacks on journalists and other restrictions of freedom of expression"
Inter American Press Association
7 April 2014
"Conflict between government and critical media companies intensifies"
Committee to Protect Journalists
11 February 2014
Ranked 55th in annual press freedom index
Reporters Without Borders
1 February 2014
President accuses media of using 'bullets of ink'
Human Rights Watch
22 January 2014
Ranked 109th in annual global media freedom report
Freedom House
1 May 2013
"The administration carried out smear campaigns against critical journalists" in 2012
Freedom House
16 January 2013
Newsprint regulation, Law 26,736, will bring a "dark precedents for press freedom"
Inter American Press Association
23 April 2012
Federal Court sentences 16 military members in decades-old murder of journalist Rodolfo Walsh
Committee to Protect Journalists
22 February 2012