Global Investigative Journalism Network (https://gijn.org/tag/latin-america/)
Investigating the environment in developing countries can be a particularly dangerous game – far more so in the Global South than in North America and Europe. Journalists in the developing world are prime targets for powerful political and economic interests, operate in a hostile climate, and often lose their lives far from the Western media spotlight.
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.
In March 2020, environmental journalist Helena Carpio, leaned out of her window to see Caracas filled with smoke. Something was burning, but no one knew where and there was no official news on what was happening. She started to investigate, and the resulting project analyzed two decades of satellite data on hotspots to explore the when, where, and why of forest fires in Venezuela and across Latin America.
Serie de consejos extraídos de las experiencias de varios periodistas internacionales sobre la recopilación y creación de bases de datos efectivas para realizar periodismo de investigación.
Since 1998, El Faro has fought for accountability in El Salvador, a Central American country saddled with stubborn poverty, a history of civil conflict, and pervasive criminal gangs. But after decades of investigating criminal organizations, corruption, and illegal practices by security forces, the newspaper might be facing one of its greatest challenges yet.
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”.
