Global Investigative Journalism Network (https://gijn.org/tag/latin-america/)
There is no infallible method for interviewing people who have been victims and survivors of traumatic events such as violence, crimes, disasters, or accidents. But Marcela Turati, co-founder of Mexican investigative journalism nonprofit Quinto Elemento Lab, shares recommendations that can be used as a roadmap to conduct a humane, sensitive, and respectful interview.
At least 860 journalists have died from COVID-19 in the last 12 months, according to a European nonprofit that has been tracking cases among media professionals since the start of the pandemic. Latin American countries account for more than half of the tally.
En el foro virtual de GIJN en español “Periodismo de investigación en comunidades indígenas”, el primero del año de la serie #CharlasGIJN, reunimos a periodistas en Perú, México, Ecuador, Argentina y Colombia, quienes compartirán sus experiencias profesionales y brindarán consejos para poder trabajar haciendo periodismo de investigación innovador en comunidades indígenas.
Una alianza de radios regionales, promovida por OjoPúblico, realiza un esfuerzo inédito para combatir las mentiras en lenguas originarias para los pueblos andinos y amazónicos. A la fecha se han elaborado cientos de explicaciones sobre el COVID-19 en cinco idiomas indígenas.
Inscríbete a nuestro seminario web el 14 de diciembre, sobre periodismo de datos con reporteros de dos proyectos relevantes: “Chavismo INC” y “Los explotadores del agua”.
GIJN’s Spanish Editor Andrea Arzaba rounds up the top investigative stories from Latin American media outlets in 2020, focusing on deep dive investigations into important but often overlooked topics including femicide and migration.
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.
In the project Migrantes de otro mundo — Migrants from Another World — a team of more than 40 journalists in more than a dozen countries decided to collaborate to tell the untold story of the migrants from Asia and Africa who travel through Latin America each year. As the creators of the project put it: “By its wandering nature, migration is a story that can only be properly told through collaboration.”
For our series on journalists’ favorite tools, we spoke with Sérgio Spagnuolo, founder and editor of the Brazilian data journalism agency Volt Data Lab. He has worked on disinformation and data verification before founding Volt, an independent journalism agency focused on investigating, analyzing, and visualizing data.
Media organizations across Latin America are working together to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic is playing out in the region. Reporters say that cross-border collaboration is helping them report the story of a lifetime so that jointly they can work to “connect the dots.”
