News & Analysis
GIJN Bookshelf: 9 Investigative Titles to Better Understand Latin America
This latest installment of the GIJN Bookshelf offers a compilation of recommended investigative books from reporters across Latin America.
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Awards & Fellowships GIJC23
2023 Global Shining Light Award Finalists: Small and Medium Outlet Category
Read about the six finalists for the 2023 Global Shining Light Award — the prize that honors watchdog journalism in developing or transitioning countries carried out under threat, or in perilous conditions — in the Small and Medium Outlets category.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Forced Out: Latin America’s Investigative Reporters Pushed into Exile
A press freedom crisis is rippling across Latin America and in some places the technological, legal, and physical threats have grown so severe that investigative journalists feel compelled to flee their home countries to keep reporting.
Case Studies News & Analysis
Investigating Oil Spills and Corporate Impunity in the Amazon
An interview with Alexa Vélez, managing editor of Mongabay Latam and the lead coordinator of the Stained by Oil investigative series on oil spills and corporate impunity in the Amazon region.
News & Analysis
Latin America’s Best Investigative Journalism Featured at COLPIN 2021
COLPIN is the most prestigious investigative journalism gathering in Latin America, and is organized by the Institute for Press and Society. On December 4 the winners of the Javier Valdez Latin American Prize for Investigative Journalism, named in honor of the Mexican journalist killed in 2017, were announced.
Case Studies News & Analysis
Editor’s Pick: 2021’s Best Investigative Stories from Latin America
Despite a backlash against the media in Latin America, investigative journalists have refused to stay silent. Here we highlight eight of the best investigative stories published in Spanish in the region this year, selecting those that prioritized collaboration, used innovative investigative methods and tools, and those that reached new audiences.
Data Journalism Reporting Tools & Tips
Interpreting Data: Tips to Make Sure You Know How to Read the Numbers
When using data for investigative stories, it is important to learn how to obtain and clean the information. But it is also vital that you interpret your findings correctly and extract the right conclusions from the numbers, filters, and spreadsheets. If you do the math correctly but fail to read the answers properly, you may end up misleading your audience.
News & Analysis Sustainability
How Mission-Driven News Sites Are Betting on Reader Revenue in Latin America
For digital-first news outlets in Latin America, lessons learned from reader-funding experiments are being transformed into highly tailored membership programs that offer a chance at a more sustainable future. Independent, mission-driven or subject-specific news sites, in particular, are leading the way, converting close relationships with audiences into funding through editorially-linked, labor-intensive initiatives.
News & Analysis
Silencing the Press: A Decade of Journalist Murders in Latin America
More than 130 journalists were killed in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Honduras in the years between 2011 and 2020, many of them attacked while investigating political issues, corruption, and organized crime. RSF has analyzed the attacks and found that half of the journalists had received threats related to their work.
Data Journalism
How Bellingcat and Forensic Architecture Teamed Up with Colombia’s Cerosetenta to Map Police Violence
Colombian media outlet Cerosetenta joined the international collective of journalists and researchers Bellingcat and research agency Forensic Architecture to map police violence during ongoing protests in Colombia and, in a second step, to reconstruct crimes committed in this context.