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News & Analysis

What a Trump Presidency Means for the Media: A Reading List

by The Global Forum for Media Development • November 17, 2016

Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election has given rise to questions about credibility of traditional media outlets, the role of the media in shaping public opinion, and a changing media landscape. Even the future existence of free media as it is known today is a cause of concern for many in the media community if Trump’s attacks against the press during his election campaign are taken into account. GFMD has complied a selection of articles encompassing these wide-ranging issues.

Data Journalism Reporting Tools & Tips

Tracking Business Records Across Asia

by GIJN Staff • November 15, 2016

The paper trail has changed — money now moves digitally and business registries are databases — and this lets journalists do more than ever before in tracking people and companies across borders. Here’s a useful list of which business databases to start looking into if you’re background companies in China, India, and the Philippines.

Data Journalism

Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links

by GIJN & Connected Action • November 14, 2016

What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are top links for Oct 31-Nov 6: election maps vs. cartograms (@LazaroGamio); US political geography (@nytgraphics); data pitfalls (@journalismnews); affordable healthcare (@sangerkatz); French literary awards @dataletemps); & more.

News & Analysis

250 Gather in Joburg for African Investigative Conference

by Safeeyah Kharsany • November 13, 2016

This year’s African Investigative Journalism Conference, boasting about 250 attendees from 28 countries, concluded an enthusiastic three days of workshops and presentations on Wednesday in Johannesburg, South Africa. Now in its eleventh year, the AIJC is the largest gathering of investigative journalists in Africa. With 70 sessions, the conference was, as one attendee put it, “a candy store for journalists.”

News & Analysis

How an Award-Winning Investigation Was Buried in Two Newsrooms

by Manisha Pande and Sandeep Pai • November 10, 2016

Earlier this month the Indian news site Newslaundry won a prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award for a series of stories based on Right to Information (RTI) requests. The information — over 2,000 letters from Indian state-owned enterprises revealed how political leaders routinely misused up to US$15 million in public funds by asking for media ads or sponsorships for their pet organizations. Here’s the inside story of how the piece almost didn’t come to light.

Resource

Three “Musts” for Today’s Investigative Journalist

Journalism is by definition investigative. However, the depth and scope of possibilities to unearth and bring to light wrongdoings of public interest has increased manifold, thanks to the way the Internet has been evolving in the last decade. To be a true investigative reporter today, it is indispensable to fine-tune the old philosophy with three new practices: be Open, Systematic and Safe.

Data Journalism

Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links

by GIJN & Connected Action • November 7, 2016

What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are top links for Oct 24-30: Clinton/Trump facial analysis (@benheubl ); 10K edits to Clinton/Trump Wikipedia pages (@chrisalcantara); Amnesty 36-year dataviz (@jwyg); Latinos in office (@UnivisionData); open source tools (@M_Mandalka); & more.

Case Studies

Latin America: Tracking Illegal Trade in Artifacts

by Paola Nalvarte • November 4, 2016

“Stolen Memory” is the investigation that led to the creation of the first journalistic platform that collects massive data on illicit trafficking of cultural artifacts from Latin American countries. It is a project of Peruvian digital investigative journalism site Ojo Público, which invited four important media in the region to participate in a transnational and collaborative investigation.

News & Analysis

Getting Away with Murder: The Impunity Record

by UNESCO • November 2, 2016

For International Day to End Impunity, our excerpt today is an annex from a new UN report. It makes for a chilling read — an updated list of the status of judicial inquiries into journalist killings from 2006 to 2015. Out of 827 journalists killed in the past decade, only 63 have been resolved. The message right now is clear: opponents of a free press can literally get away with murder. Until we fix the problem of impunity, it will be impossible to meet the UN development goal of ensuring public access to information.

News & Analysis

“My Killers Are Still Free” — Ending Impunity for Crimes Against Media

by UNESCO • November 2, 2016

Today, November 2, marks International Day to End Impunity. Since 2014, the UN and press freedom groups have commemorated the day to spotlight the glaring number of unresolved journalists’ murders and the lack of punishment for their perpetrators around the world. This year’s awareness campaign is aptly titled “My Killers Are Still Free.”

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