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La Prensa Mexicana: En la Encrucijada de la Violencia

El 7 de agosto de 2010, manifestantes dejaron imágenes de los periodistas muertos y desaparecidos en el Ministerio del Interior en la ciudad de México como una muestra de su…
An Abundance of Images: Is It Leading to a ‘Trivialization of Photography’?

An Abundance of Images: Is It Leading to a ‘Trivialization of Photography’?

El Juncal, Ecuador (1996) Quito, Ecuador (1996) Mérida, Venezuela (1999) El Brazo, Colombia (1995) Atacama, Chile (1995) Ayacucho, Perú (2001) Cayambe, Ecuador (1998) Sigsig, Ecuador (1985) Toledo, Bolivia Achacachi, Bolivia…

Spring 2011: Introduction

Barriers to reporting on corruption are numerous. Pushing past them can be risky, especially in countries where powerful interests are entrenched in business, media organizations, and government. Arrest. Legal action.…

Freedom of Information Laws in Latin America

Source: Right2info.orgAristotle insisted that "by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we come to…

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…