Environment

Brazil: Launch a Digital Map That Uses Open Data to Monitor the Amazon

In Partnership With: 
Folha de Sao Paulo
In Partnership With: 
ABRAJI

Knight International Journalism Fellow Gustavo Faleiros is creating a comprehensive online map that makes extensive use of data to track the deteriorating environment of the nine-country Amazon region. The map, a mash-up of existing technologies—satellite images, open data and media and social-media feeds—gives journalists the ability to keep tabs on changes that impact the world’s largest tropical rainforest.

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Argentina: Create Tools to Collect, Analyze and Visualize Data for Investigative Stories

In Partnership With: 
La Nación
In Partnership With: 
Foro de Periodismo Argentino (FOPEA)

At La Nación, one of Argentina’s leading daily newspapers, Knight International Journalism Fellow Sandra Crucianelli is creating the first team of investigative journalists who can track tax revenues earmarked for the country’s crumbling public services. As part of this effort, she is helping La Nación launch Argentina’s first data blog, where journalists post data-driven stories and invite the public to respond and engage.

Mar 122012

Haitian Journalists Show How Temporary Solutions Create Permanent Problems for Refugees

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.

Program: 
Haiti: Track Aid Funds to Ensure a Strong Recovery
Dec 92011

Journalists from Chattanooga and Chicago Honored for International Reporting

by Irene Moskowitz, Communications Officer

Two reporters have won awards, named for Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, for outstanding coverage of global stories with important local angles.

Program: 
Bringing Home the World: International Reporting Fellowship Program for Minority Journalists
Nov 102011

Villagers Become Citizen Journalists in Rural Indonesia

by Harry Surjadi

After a two-day workshop I held recently on the basics of citizen journalism, one participant summed up the importance of his new task: "The training taught me how to become a critical person,” said 25-year-old Juliatus, a resident of Sei Enau village.

Nov 22011

ICFJ now accepting applications for 2012 International Reporting Fellowship Program

For a second year, the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) will offer the “Bringing Home the World: International Reporting Fellowship Program for Minority Journalists.”

Through this fellowship, journalists of color gain foreign reporting experience and an opportunity to cover important international issues that resonate with their communities.

Applicants must present a project proposal in their application, detailing the reporting project they would be interested in pursuing.

The deadline for submitting applications is Monday January 16, 2012.

Program: 
Bringing Home the World: International Reporting Fellowship Program for Minority Journalists

Scott Wallace expedition

Wallace (right), reporting from the depths of the Amazonian jungle for his new book "The Unconquered"

Oct 262011

ICFJ Fellowship Leads to New Book on Amazon's Hidden Tribes

by Rob Taylor

ICFJ’s Environmental Journalism Fellow Scott Wallace lost 25 pounds exploring the headwaters of the Amazon, but returned with the story of a lifetime.