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The article analyses the violations of the right to communication suffered by community journalists in the last three elections based on the results of a survey covering the five regions of Brazil. Through bibliographical and documentary review, it presents an overview of the situation of journalists' safety, focusing on the specific vulnerabilities that community media face in local news production, both in offline and online environments. The analysis of the results points to a scenario of hostility and vulnerability in community journalism and provides elements for mapping the factors that influence the safety of community journalists in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is a historical fact of significance that in Latin America there have been experiences around the constitution of community, alternative and popular media, which have known how to interpret the demands and needs of groups and social organizations. This has contributed to highlighting the importance of having communication policies in the region oriented towards an effective exercise of the right to communicate, based on the democratization of national media communication systems, beyond the existence of the media. of commercial or private ownership. Despite the efforts made in recent years in some countries, as well as some setbacks, the central issue revolves around the problem of the economic sustainability of these media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the impact of state policies for the sustainability of community media in Argentina between 2008 and 2018. It is based on a comprehensive empirical research that includes: collection and revision of documents about national and local policies, media markets, and history of non-profit media; interviews with their workers and activists. The argument is that state policies of legalization and promotion from human rights framework proved to be crucial for the growth and sustainability of non-profit media in the period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]