Former Knight International Journalism Fellow Kathie Klarreich has covered Haiti for more than two decades, but she is still surprised by the dilemmas facing Haitian reporters. In spite of the apparent conflicts of interest, low-paid Haitian reporters often take second jobs working for political candidates or the government to help them pay bills.

Knight International Journalism Fellow Kathie Klarreich's efforts to create a culture of investigative journalism in Haiti are paying off. Thanks to her work, journalists across the capital region are digging into stories as they track the billions of dollars in earthquake aid that poured into the country. In a Caribbean Journal op-ed, Klarreich says Haitian newsrooms have changed fundamentally in the past 20 months. Reporters she has mentored are investigating stories in newsrooms where editors are more willing to give them the time to break new ground.

Dozens of transitional shelters built for Haitian families left homeless by the 2010 earthquake remain empty now, while many of those same families still live in tents or huts. Reporters chosen for the Fund for Investigative Journalism, developed by Knight International Journalism Fellow Kathie Klarreich, set out to find out what went wrong and why. With guidance from Klarreich and Jane Regan, her partner on the project, what they found was a mountain of good intentions buried under a confusing heap of chaos and distortions.

In the aftermath of Haiti's 2010 earthquake, scores of non-governmental organizations and churches moved in to help.

As hundreds of non-governmental organizations begin to pull out of Haiti, their departures are causing problems in a nation still struggling to recover from the 2010 earthquake. Several journalists chosen to take part in the Fund for Investigative Journalism took a close look at one of those problems.

GlobalPost's GroundTruth blog featured the work of Knight International Journalism Fellow Kathie Klarreich, working in Haiti to build a network of trained investigative journalists. It details the many, many challenges journalists in that country face, not the least of which includes newsrooms that still have not recovered from the devastation of the January 2010.

When International Media Support, a nonprofit organization that works to improve conditions in developing nations, wanted to examine why Haiti struggles to find and keep journalists who can report on difficult conditions there, they turned to Knight International Journalism Fellow Kathie Klarreich.

Klarreich works with investigative reporting trainees in Haiti, particularly those interested in tracking the flow of aid funds following the January 2010 earthquake.