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COLPIN 2024: Celebrating Latin America’s Investigative Journalism in Madrid
The 2024 Latin American Conference of Investigative Journalism (COLPIN) brought together journalists from Latin America, Europe, and Africa.
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COLPIN 2023: Latin America’s Leading Investigative Reporters Showcase Their Work in Mexico City
At COLPIN 2023, 450 journalists from more than 25 countries gathered to share techniques and tips about the best investigations published in Latin America during the past year.
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Latin America’s Leading Investigative Reporters Take Their Stories to Rio
Accusations of sexual harassment against the head of a state-owned bank, the transnational growth and influence of Salvadorian gang MS13, and the striking accumulation of wealth by the president and his family in one of the poorest countries in Central America. These were some of the investigative topics among the prize-winning stories featured at the 2022 Latin American Conference on Investigative Journalism.
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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.
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Latin America’s Best Investigative Journalism Honored at COLPIN 2020
Investigations into water exploitation, government spying, and paramilitary murders were among the stories honored with awards at the annual Latin American Conference on Investigative Journalism (COLPIN), which drew hundreds of journalists from more than 20 countries in an online forum.
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Latin American Investigations Honored in Bogotá
Winners of the Javier Valdez Latin American Award for Investigative Journalism were honored during the 2018 Latin American Conference of Investigative Journalism (Colpin), which was held from November 8 – 11 in Bogota, Colombia.
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Editor’s Pick: Best Investigative Stories from Latin America 2017
From uncovering Big Pharma’s influence on healthcare to investigating child rape in El Salvador or documenting Mexican families tracking their “disappeared” loved ones, Latin American muckrakers had a busy year in 2017.
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#Colpin2017: Latin America’s Best Investigative Projects
The Institute for Press and Society and Transparency International for Latin America and the Caribbean awarded the Latin American Prize for Investigative Journalism to the Salvadoran newspaper El Faro for its work “Why Do 90% of Child Rapes Go Unpunished?”
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Human Rights Stories Shine at COLPIN Awards
Investigations into extrajudicial killings, violent conflicts over land and timber, and trafficking of cultural heritage items took home the top three prizes at the 2016 Latin American Investigative Journalism Award (#COLPIN2016), held in Panama last weekend. The jury also highlighted the existence of networking, collaborative, and transnational work methodologies streaming from data journalism