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ICFJ Knight Roundup: Webinar to Discuss Panama Papers' Cross-Border Impact

_As part of the Knight International Media Innovators blog, the ICFJ Knight team will round up stories focused on how their fellows are making an impact in the field.

Global Collaboration—The Future of Investigative Journalism

The kind of groundbreaking reporting that broke stories on the Panama Papers has opened a new era of cross-border collaboration among global journalists, according to an International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) panel held on May 17.

Investigative reporters who helped lead the massive project said they worked more safely and effectively through networks of journalists from South America to Europe to Africa to expose the financial dealings of powerful people in their regions.

“A lot of the success of our networks has been that ability to reach across borders,” said [Justin Arenstein](

2016 Knight International Award Winners Expose Rampant Corruption

NEW YORK - Investigative reporters from Bosnia and Mexico who have exposed financial crimes and misconduct at the highest levels are the winners of the 2016 Knight International Journalism Award, the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) announced.

ICFJ Knight Fellows' Projects Democratize Information, News Across Africa

The spread of mobile phones and connectivity across Africa offers opportunities and challenges for the way citizens discover and use information. If people have the skills and knowledge to harness them, open data and new technologies hold the keys to the media’s future.

Code for Africa is the continent’s largest network of civic technology and open data labs. We work with media partners to create actionable information for citizens that helps them in their daily lives.

ICFJ Knight Roundup: ANCIR Reports Receive Overseas Press Club of America Honors

_As part of the Knight International Media Innovators blog, the ICFJ Knight team will round up stories focused on how their fellows are making an impact in the field.

Watchdog News Sites Showcase Innovative Business Models at ISOJ 2016

One of the dirty little secrets in digital media is that the big numbers of page views and unique users touted by publishers are misleading at best. They overstate a publication's audience size and impact.

Most visitors to a publisher's content are fly-bys: They stay for only a few seconds. And even if they stay longer than that, the vast majority come to a publisher's website only once or twice a month.

ICFJ Investigative Networks Play Key Role in Panama Papers

Investigative journalism networks launched or nurtured by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) have played a key role in the Panama Papers revelations, showing that journalists from Latin America to Africa to Eastern Europe can hold their own with the world’s best.

The success of Panama Papers has demonstrated the changing nature of investigative journalism. In the past, a single media organization with vast resources could manage a comprehensive global investigation on its own.

How to Define the Line Between Journalism and Activism in the Digital Age

The shift toward online and mobile media has undoubtedly blurred the line between journalism and activism – and maybe that’s not such a bad thing, members of both camps said during a recent panel discussion on the subject at the International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ).

Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, cited the case of Wikileaks chief Julian Assange.

Finding Solutions to Protect Journalists at the U.S.-Mexico Border

The U.S.–Mexico border is a very challenging region for journalists. They need to cover everything from a bi-national perspective; speak two languages; understand two different political, legal and judicial systems; and also take risks covering the illegal drug trade, human trafficking and the crime and violence attached to them.

Just about two hours from where I am based in South Texas, drug cartels behead people in the same way the Islamic State is doing in Syria.

Leaders at International Journalism Festival Focus on Power of Networks and Platforms

This year's International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy was dominated by two events unfolding elsewhere that demonstrated the continual reshaping of the global media landscape: the release of the Panama Papers and announcements at Facebook's F8 developer conference.

The Panama Papers was cited as an example of how a new type of collaborative reporting network could shape the global political agenda with revelations about hidden wealth and tax havens gleaned from a yearlo