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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.
This latest installment of the GIJN Bookshelf offers a compilation of recommended investigative books from reporters across Latin America.
GIJN member El Surtidor is a Paraguayan news organization created in 2015 that prioritizes innovation and multi-platform, visual journalism.
Amidst disinformation and numerous attacks on press freedom, investigative reporting has all but disappeared from Peru’s major news outlets, leaving a handful of small nonprofit digital outlets to carry the mantle of accountability reporting.
GIJN looks at three different reports from Europe and Latin America that track where our garbage goes around the world and investigate the implications for people and the environment that waste can present.
Venezuelan journalist Ronna Rísquez has covered violence and organized crime in South America for more than 20 years. In conversation with LatAm Journalism Review, Rísquez talks about the challenges she has faced practicing journalism as a woman and about the threats she received before publishing her first solo book.
The award-winning Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora is the founder of elPeriódico, a publication known for its investigations focused on government corruption. When he was arrested last year, local and international organizations called for his immediate release amid concerns of rising hostility to the press in the Central American country.
The crises of South America’s giant rainforest basins ignore national borders. So should journalism, writes Andrés Schäfer, in this article exploring how different outlets in the region are investigating what is happening along the banks of the region’s largest rivers.
As part of our ongoing “10 Questions” interview series, GIJN’s Spanish editor Andrea Arzaba speaks with Omaya Sosa, founding co-director of Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism.
Censorship. Imprisonment. Threats and violence. Online harassment. Legal battles. Exile. The list of challenges facing investigative reporters in Latin America is extensive. But despite the difficulties, journalists across the region are doing incredible work and holding those in power to account with their reporting.
From shared bylines to awards credit, and from fair pay to due recognition, read the best-practice tips for working with local journalists or fixers when collaborating on investigations, from Frontline Freelance Mexico.