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The latest news from the International Center for Journalists.

August
11
2022

Journalists Launch Innovative Projects to Counter Electoral Disinformation in Brazil

Teams of journalists in Brazil are rolling out new tools and resources to help voters spot disinformation and make more informed choices as the 2022 election cycle kicks off this month. The innovative projects - developed as part of the Jogo Limpo (“Fair Game”) initiative - include everything from a video fact-checking bot and an influencer campaign to gamification techniques for reaching youth.

August
10
2022

Reporting in Closed Societies: A New IJNet Spanish Toolkit

A new resource to support vital reporting in authoritarian contexts is now available for Spanish-speaking journalists and newsrooms. The International Journalists’ Network (IJNet)’s Spanish site has published its Kit de herramientas para reportear en contextos autoritarios, developed under an ICFJ program.

August
5
2022

Arrest of Award-Winning Journalist Puts Guatemalan Press Freedom on the Line

On Friday, July 29, police raided the offices of elPeriódico newspaper in Guatemala, seizing printing equipment, computers and files, and holding several workers in the office overnight. The same day, officers arrested José Rubén Zamora, an internationally renowned journalist and president of elPeriódico, at his home in Guatemala City on charges of “possible money laundering.”  

August
4
2022

New Class of Arthur F. Burns Fellows Begins Transatlantic Exchange Program

Like hundreds of fellows before them, 23 fellows from the United States, Canada and Germany met last week in Washington, D.C., to kick off the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship – a two-month transatlantic exchange program.

August
2
2022

Journalism in Afghanistan Today: An Interview with Samiullah Mahdi

Journalists in Afghanistan for two decades provided the public with vital news and information across a range of independent newspapers, radio stations and TV networks – a media ecosystem that they worked hard to build and strengthen. When the Taliban returned to power in 2021, everything changed in a matter of days.

August
1
2022

ICFJ pide a las autoridades guatemaltecas que liberen de inmediato a José Rubén Zamora

El Centro Internacional para Periodistas (ICFJ, por sus siglas en inglés) se une a grupos de libertad de prensa y pro democracia en todo el mundo para condenar el arresto de José Rubén Zamora, un periodista galardonado y de renombre internacional, presidente del periódico elPeriódico en Guatemala.

August
1
2022

ICFJ Calls on Guatemalan Authorities to Immediately Release José Rubén Zamora

The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) joins press freedom and pro-democracy groups worldwide in strongly condemning the arrest of José Rubén Zamora, an internationally renowned, award-winning journalist and president of elPeriódico newspaper in Guatemala.

July
27
2022

Spanish-Language Podcast Aims to 'Fill the Gap' in Health News for U.S. Latinos

Even before the launch of her Spanish-language podcast, Salud, an enterprising journalist in Boston has attracted support from the city’s public health commission for a second season.

July
21
2022

Innovative Fact-Checking Can Help Counter Disinformation About Elections

As preparation for elections get underway in countries such as Kenya and Nigeria, politicians and their supporters are investing time and resources into spreading mis- and disinformation that can sway public opinion and impact electoral outcomes. Africa’s youth bulge and a steady increase in internet adoption has aided the shift to social media as a medium of political expression.

July
21
2022

Meet the ICFJ Innovators Working to Build Trust in News

Journalism innovators from across the world – from Brazil to Turkey to the U.S. – have embarked on a 10-week solutions challenge to address one of the field’s most urgent questions: How to build trust in news.

Almost 40 journalists and technologists from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North America are taking part in the inaugural solutions challenge with Leap, ICFJ’s news innovation lab. Expert trainers and mentors are providing a guided, focused experience for participants to explore, design and develop products to better serve their communities, in an era of rampant disinformation and extreme polarization.