Our Impact

We design all of our programs to deliver maximum results. By investing heavily in monitoring and evaluating our initiatives, we show how good journalism can improve societies.

  • Where Has All the Money Gone in Haiti? Ask A New Group of Investigative Reporters

    When I first started training Haitian journalists in investigative reporting skills in the summer of 2010, I wasn’t sure I could overcome the mountain of obstacles: a culture that didn’t include investigations; newsrooms that were so focused on daily events that verification was as rare as research; widespread lack of information, data and sources or worse, sources who divulged no information or data; and journalists themselves who weren’t even sure what I meant by investigations.

    March 12, 2012
    Caribbean
    Investigative
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  • How Health Coverage Helped Warn of Deadly Lassa Fever in Nigeria

    Too often health reporting in Nigeria comes as an after-thought, when journalists offer up impersonal statistics, usually death tolls, of a tragedy that could have been prevented, or at least reduced. But during a recent outbreak of the highly contagious lassa fever, I saw an opportunity for my team of health reporters at the Daily Trust to do something different. What we did prompted government action—and saved lives.

    March 07, 2012
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  • Text-and-Mobile News Network Opens Coverage of Rural Indonesia

    In a rural corner of Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province, indigenous people can now send out the important news in their communities, thanks to a groundbreaking cell phone-based network officially launched this month by Knight International Journalism Fellow Harry Surjadi.

    The new service – which opens up a part of the country previously cut off from news coverage – had its public debut at a press conference on February 15 in the provincial capital of Pontianak.

    February 28, 2012
    Asia
    Citizen Journalism
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