Thousands of students took to the streets in Mexico City yesterday to march against the political bias that they say has infected the national media in the lead-up to the presidential elections on July 1.

This was the second press freedom protest in Mexico's capital in under a week, and simultaneous demonstrations were held thorughout the country. Hailing from a wide range of private and public universities, students congregated on Twitter under the hashtag #YoSoy132. Their common goal, as stated by the movement's website, is the promotion of transparency, plurality and democracy in the Mexican media.

Mexico is among the world's most dangerous countries for journalism, with five journalists murdered since the start of 2012 according to the Knight Centre for Journalism in the Americas.

However, the protesters' stated adversary was not gang-related violence, but partisan manipulation: they claim that the presidential campaign coverage by major newspapers and television networks, and particularly Mexico’s dominant television network, Televisa, has been slanted in favour of frontrunner Enrique Peña Nieto, who has a double-digit lead in the polls. Peña Nieto belongs to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which held power in Mexico for 70 years before being voted out in 2000.

The UK Supreme Court is preparing to decide next Wednesday whether Julian Assange should be deported to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of sexual assault, reports the Guardian. The paper writes that the verdict is likely to hinge on the judges’ decision over whether the European Arrest Warrant issued for Assange is valid.

El Pais has posted a video interview with John Paton, CEO of Digital First Media, who explains the “digital first” philosophy that underpins his company. “Technology is 100% of the future,” he says.

Press Gazette reports that the Sun’s Fabulous magazine is re-launching its website in a new, blog-style format. The article notes that stories used to be posted on the website just once a week, but now, according to editor Rachel Richardson, it will be edited “literally minute by minute.”

NPR announced yesterday that has it hired the Chicago Tribune’s Brian Boyer to direct a new team, dedicated to building news applications. NPR has produced news apps previously, such as this interactive look at the science of “Fracking” to extract gas, and this map of air-polluting facilities in the US. However, the staff who have worked on these types of projects haven’t been coordinated in a single department, and Boyer’s appointment will bring them together.

Mark Stencel, NPR’s Managing Editor for digital news, who will be in charge of Boyer and his team, tells Poynter; “what I’m hoping is that, by taking these positions and putting them together as a team, we’ll be able to do a higher level of [work] than we’ve been able to do with scattered design, database and development resources.”

Capital New York writes that the Huffington Post is pushing ahead with its plans to launch a live video streaming network. The new product, which has been named HuffPost Live, aims to feature 12 hours of original programming every weekday, produced by a staff of around 100, says the article.

As Erik Wemple at the Washington Post reported yesterday, The New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane will be stepping down at the beginning on September. Now Craig Silverman at Poynter suggests five qualities that The Times should look for as it tries to find a new person to fill the roll.