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The Shady Dash for World Cup Cash

Questions arose in South Africa about improprieties in a major World Cup soccer contract after it was learned that a black security guard who, on paper, was a 26 percent…

Costs That Investors Seem Willing to Ignore

In 2001 free speech advocates demonstrated in Germany against Gazprom, a major Russian energy concern, when it took over a Russian TV company. Gazprom is partly owned by a German…

Sorin Ovidiu Vintu: Buying Propaganda as News

Romanian businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vintu has a simple strategy for dealing with journalists: “I don’t want to do any business with them,” he said. “I just want to buy them…

Establishing the Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism

Let’s begin by looking at a typical Romanian media experience: A multinational gold mining company, Rosia Montana Gold Corporation, initially established by a controversial Romanian who has had drug convictions,…

A Journalist’s Letter From Academia

Making the switch from full-time journalist to tenured professor is more challenging—and rewarding—than one might think.

Asking Questions in Small-Town America Can Be Dangerous

‘I knew we’d get a backlash for our reporting, which was far more aggressive than most small-town papers are willing to stomach. But the news media’s role as watchdog is…

Statistics on Impunity

2010 has been a violent year for journalists in Mexico in terms of murders and attacks.RELATED ARTICLE“The Mexican Press: At the Crossroads of Violence”– Elia Baltazar andDaniela PastranaA report by…

Investigative Reporting in China: Progress, Setbacks and Surprises

In her introduction to a book about investigative journalism in China, Ying Chan traces the progress and setbacks of news reporting under Communist rule, a history that has actually seen…

China’s Propaganda Department: New Restrictions on the Press

On January 5, China’s state-run news agency Xinhua reported on the annual meeting of the media propaganda ministers. A few weeks later, China Media Project editor David Bandurski wrote on…

Global Investigative Journalism Conference Kiev, Ukraine, October 2011

RELATED ARTICLE“An Idea Born Out of Necessity—And It Works!”– Henrik KaufholzThe Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC), which now attracts more than 500 journalists from more than 50 countries, has been…