India’s best journalists are producing impressive investigative reporting these days. But the unprecedented arrests last week of two journalists for extortion highlights a troubling problem for the country’s free-wheeling media: widespread payoffs and a worrisome lack of credibility. Veteran Delhi-based journalist Shantanu Guha Ray reports on what one prominent editor calls “our News of the World moment.”
A courageous effort by the Sunday Times in South Africa into the operations of a police death squad won the top prize in the 2012 African Investigative Journalism Awards.
The GIJN warmly welcomes six new member organizations, extending the global network to 74 groups in 35 countries.
For five-and-a-half-months, a team of European journalists has researched, at the behest of the European Parliament, the critical role that investigative journalism can play in deterring fraud in the European Union. Their nearly 300-page report, released today in Brussels, is a landmark study that makes a powerful case for the contribution that investigative reporting makes “to greater transparency on this issue, tracking irregularities, fraud and corruption, and uncovering misspending on different levels and scales in the EU member states and the EU institutions.”
Close to 100 journalists, vizualisers and hackers gathered data and shared methods 6th to 8th of May 2012 in Brussels. [View the story “Lessons from Data Harvest Festival in Europa” on Storify]
100Reporters, a groundbreaking new Web site that joins top journalists from around the world to write about corruption, is a being launched today. The idea of former New York Times reporters Diana Jean Schemo and Philip Shenon, the site is aimed at filling a void in the current media landscape by reporting primarily on corruption […]
