Investigative

Mexico: Improved Access to Information for Investigative Broadcast Journalists

In Partnership With: 
Televisa

Susana Seijas helped journalists to use Mexico’s access to information law to improve the quality and increase the quantity of investigative and in-depth reports produced for the country's largest TV network and its website.

At her suggestion, the partner organization Televisa revamped a one-hour weekly news show called Reporteros, which showcased the work of the investigative team. As a result of a Televisa series on prison corruption, the Mexican Human Rights Commission issued recommendations to all prisons to combat the problem.

Feb 112012

Why Do So Many Good Journalists Leave Haiti? Knight Fellow Shares Her Insight

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.

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

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The fund offers an opportunity for reporters to focus on one story for an extended period, researching the issue, gathering information and conducting multiple interviews for an in-depth report. (Photo by Jon Bougher)

Haiti Fund Launch 3

Only one of the journalists selected for participation in the program is female, a statistic Klarreich is hoping will change in the future. (Photo by Jon Bougher)

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The group engaged in passionate debate about some of the standards and expectations for investigative journalists in Haiti. (Photo by Jon Bougher)

Haiti Fund Launches

Knight Fellow Kathie Klarreich (seated at desk, right) addresses the first meeting of 13 journalists selected for the Fund for Investigative Journalism in Haiti. (Photo by Jon Bougher)

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)

In Partnership With: 
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

One OCCRP project, The Big Bet, examines the criminal elements behind Eastern Europe’s thriving gambling industry.

This program challenges the development community to build citizen demand to reduce corruption, fraud, and other criminal activities through increased exposure to professionally-produced investigative journalism.

Jan 172012

Two Years After Quake, Investigation Shows Failure to Help Haitians Stranded in Camps

Knight International Journalism Fellow Kathie Klarreich has been helping Haitian journalists expose the failures of local and international efforts to deliver aid to the country devastated by an earthquake two years ago. In this report, a journalist who worked with Klarreich captures the plight of many thousands with the story of 400 families forced to relocate to a new camp without necessary services including food, health care and education.

Program: 
Haiti: Track Aid Funds to Ensure a Strong Recovery
Dec 142011

Knight Fellow in Trauma-Torn Haiti Shares Lessons in Covering Disaster

by Kathie Klarreich

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I arrived in Baltimore last month to participate with eight other journalists as Dart’s Ochberg Fellows. I did anticipate, though, that the collective experience of discussing how we cover trauma and disaster was going to be heavy fodder, especially coming from 20-plus months of continuous, on-the-ground work as a Knight Fellow in Haiti following the January 2010 earthquake.

Nov 102011

GBJ Student Publishes Article on Mandatory Military Training for University Students

What started out as an assignment in a feature writing course for the Global Business Journalism program at Tsinghua University evolved into a major feature on the website of Foreign Policy magazine.

Eric Fish, a second-year student in the master's program co-sponsored by ICFJ, became interested in the annual ritual of several weeks of military training that most university freshmen in China have to undergo. It involves marching, physical training and patriotic education.

Program: 
The Tsinghua Global Business Journalism Program (GBJ)