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How should journalists investigate what has happened to people who have disappeared? What is the best way of dealing with their families, the organized crime groups often involved in the cases, and corrupt officials? Mexican investigative journalist Marcela Turati and Óscar Martínez from El Salvador, both specialists on reporting on transnational organized crime, shared their tips during GIJN’s Spanish language webinar.
El Media Development Investment Fund analiza el uso del financiamiento estatal como herramienta de control y apropiación para interferir en el periodismo de investigación en distintas partes del mundo.
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.
Después de décadas de investigar organizaciones criminales, corrupción y prácticas ilegales por parte de las fuerzas de seguridad en El Salvador, el periódico podría estar enfrentando uno de sus mayores desafíos hasta el momento.
En el foro virtual “Periodismo independiente, monetización y emprendimiento” que forma parte de la iniciativa #CharlasGIJN, organizada por la Red Global de Periodismo de Investigación, líderes de medios compartieron sus experiencias y se centraron en que las oportunidades y alternativas abundan, incluso en los contextos más difíciles y adversos como los de una pandemia.
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La última vez que estuve en El Salvador terminé tan afectada por las historias de violencia y machismo que sufren las salvadoreñas que escribí una columna de opinión para The New York Times que comenzaba así: “No quiero volver a El Salvador. ” Tuve que tragarme mis palabras y hacerme la valiente para regresar el pasado 13 de mayo al Foro de Periodismo Centroamericano Foro-CAP o a la gran “juntura”, como le dicen los locales.
This is not just about getting the money; it is about creating a faithful community of readers. In a way, they are searching for the lost group of loyal subscribers to traditional newspapers who would call the newsroom in times of crisis as if journalists were family.
In everyday journalism, to get the public to pay attention to your story, to make it not only truthful, but also credible and attractive, is a hard task. And it has become even harder in the digital era. Information flows constantly through our portable electronic devices, like a river of muddy waters, dragging the authentic pieces of story-telling together with the fake; the verified; and the gossip. So if journalists want to have any chance at succeeding in this battle, they must not only find good stories, but must also elevate their story-telling to an art.
From a media outlet that pays citizens to report from remote areas of Kenya to a portal that uses humor as its main strategy to inform Russians, journalism faces different challenges in different cultural and social contexts. Creativity, however, seems to be a common skill that media entrepreneurs shared in addressing their problems at the International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) on Saturday, April 16.
Ten years ago, when I first moved to New York and gave my first lecture at the Columbia Journalism School, I told students that I believe we are at the dawn of a Golden Age of global muckraking. They were a great class, but they didn’t believe me. But look at where we are now.