For his work as a Knight International Journalism Fellow, Harry Surjadi has won the 2013 Communications for Social Change Award. He developed a groundbreaking news channel in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, using mobile and FrontlineSMS texting. He also trained hundreds of indigenous citizens to be reporters for this new platform.

In Chile, a website called Poderopedia has recently been launched by Knight International Journalism Fellow Miguel Paz. A crowdsourced map of business and political power, Poderopedia aims to make connections between people more transparent. Paz explains how some of the powerful people profiled are also some of the site's best contributors, during this interview for the U.S.

In Latin America, as in most of the world, technological change is coming to the news industry in fits and starts. Four media leaders are aiming to speed up the process this year, by collaborating as Knight International Journalism Fellows.

The fellows, three from Latin America and one originally from Portugal, have a deep understanding of the media landscape and experience as pioneers in their newsrooms and communities. Mariana Santos took interactive and visual storytelling at The Guardian to new heights.

ICFJ Director and acclaimed author Joanne Leedom-Ackerman interviewed dozens of Pakistani and U.S. participants at ICFJ’s exchange program alumni summit in Islamabad in February. “Unless you touch the grass in each other’s yards, you won’t know each other,” one Karachi journalist who spent almost a month working with U.S. journalists in Arizona told her.