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.
Los boletines han existido desde hace tiempo, pero es hasta ahora que los medios y los periodistas independientes están aprovechando este formato para sus reportajes. Conoce cinco boletines investigativos que inspiran a periodistas alrededor del mundo.
In a scandal known as ‘Vacunagate,’ 487 influential people in Peru, including its president, were secretly inoculated against COVID-19 months before vaccines were approved for the public. Two investigative newsrooms in Peru found that Chinese drug makers had secretly sent thousands of ‘courtesy’ vaccine doses to several countries in South America in addition to the doses needed for clinical trials there. Editors from both told GIJN how reporters can tackle this new form of corruption.
Alejandra Xanic, editora general de Quinto Elemento Lab, cuenta cómo crearon el laboratorio periodístico sin fines de lucro que está cambiando la forma en que se produce el periodismo de investigación en México.
Millions of people disappear every year, according to the International Commission on Missing People, and organized crime is involved in many of these cases. The violence associated with drug trafficking in particular, but also wildlife smuggling, resource theft, human trafficking, and other criminal rackets, plays a key role in many of the disappearances.
Alejandra Xanic, general editor of Quinto Elemento Lab and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, tells how they created the nonprofit journalistic laboratory that is changing the way investigative journalism is produced in Mexico.
Mina’an mixba’al jets’a’an yóok’lal bix unaj u k’áata’al u chi’ máax loobilta’an wa kuxlaj ti’ noj loobil yaan ba’ax u yil yéetel pa’muuk’, kiinsaj, u noj k’astal ba’alo’ob wa loob. Junjunp’éelil jela’antak, yaan u talamilo’ob yéetel u yutsil wa u k’aasilo’obi’.
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”.
Mais de 130 jornalistas foram mortos no Brasil, México, Colômbia e Honduras entre os anos 2011 e 2020, muitos deles atacados enquanto investigavam questões políticas, corrupção e crime organizado. A RSF analisou os ataques e descobriu que metade dos jornalistas havia recebido ameaças relacionadas ao seu trabalho.
Here’s how three Mexican investigative journalists have used public information requests to aid their reporting on drug trafficking and the government’s fight against it.
