In a Hostile Climate, Reporters in Guatemala Fight for Investigative and Community Journalism

In an environment of increasing restrictions on civic organizations and impunity for crimes against press professionals, independent media in Guatemala are battling threats on several fronts. Here, journalists from three Guatemalan digital media outlets detail the strategies and tools they are using both to survive and to produce quality investigative stories.

Investigation Keeps Work of Silenced Journalists Alive

When journalists are killed or threatened for investigating environmental crimes, the story can go cold. But the Paris-based Forbidden Stories nonprofit brought together 40 journalists in 15 countries with the aim of completing the work local reporters could no longer pursue. The result is the Green Blood project.

Double Exposure: 5 documentales de periodismo de investigación para ver

El festival de cine Double Exposure muestra el trabajo creativo de reporteros y cineastas que realizan investigaciones de interés público. Desde una película filmada en las salas del hospital de Wuhan hasta una investigación sobre el asesinato de un miembro de la familia gobernante de Corea del Norte, aquí hay una lista con cinco de los principales documentales de investigación presentados en el festival de este año.