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সাইক্লোন বা ঘূর্ণিঝড়ের সময় সবাই যখন নিরাপদ আশ্রয় খোঁজেন, তখন সাংবাদিকরা ছোটেন সেই দুর্যোগ কাভার করার জন্য। এটাই নিয়ম। ঝড়ের খবর সবাইকে পৌঁছে দিতে এই পেশাগত ঝুঁকি তাঁরা সবসময়ই নিয়ে থাকেন। কিন্তু এমন সংবাদ সংগ্রহ করতে যাওয়ার আগে সাংবাদিকদেরও কিছু প্রস্তুতি নেয়া প্রয়োজন, নিজের নিরাপত্তার খাতিরে।
শুরু চার পৃষ্ঠার এক পরীক্ষামূলক উদ্যোগ দিয়ে, যেন সদ্য লেখাপড়া শিখতে থাকা নারীরা সঠিক তথ্য পেতে পারেন। সেই উদ্যোগই একসময় রূপ নিল সংবাদপত্রে, যা কিনা নারীদের সাথে অসদাচরণ থেকে শুরু করে স্থানীয় সরকারের ত্রুটি পর্যন্ত সব কিছু উন্মোচন করতে লাগলো একে একে। খবর লহরিয়া নামের সেই পত্রিকার নাম, রাতারাতি ছড়িয়ে পড়লো জাতীয় পর্যায়ে।
Editor’s Note: For months, GIJN has been working with our colleagues in India in support of launching that country’s first nonprofit center for investigative journalism. Although there are more than 100 nonprofits worldwide working on investigative reporting, in fast-growing, dynamic India — with nearly 1.3 billion people — the country has lacked a center focused on in-depth investigations into corruption, lack of accountability, and abuse of power.
When Washington, DC-based journalist Scilla Alecci began investigating a story that would later become part of the Implant Files, she hit a brick wall: Hospitals in India wouldn’t answer her phone calls. So she took the advice of an Indian colleague and booked a flight over. Together, they started knocking on doors all over the country, leading them to unexpected discoveries.
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Journalist Gangadhar Patil’s impressive idea of supporting independent journalists, helping with their edits and then matching them with mainstream publications has taken off in India — and landed its journalists in publications like CNN International, The Asia Times and The New Indian Express.
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Filing right to information requests can be a very frustrating process, but the reward can be a valuable exclusive article. Here are four examples from India, Northern Ireland and the U.S., in which journalists successfully developed stories using national freedom of information and right to information laws.
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