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How a Radio Journalist Launched an Award-Winning Podcast and Reinvented her Career

In August of 2013, Olga Ruiz returned from a refreshing summer vacation ready to start her 16th season on the COPE radio network in Barcelona.

But on her arrival, the managers told her and her team that they were being fired.

"The best period in my professional life began the moment they fired me," she told me. "They gave me a second life in journalism."

Two weeks later, she invited her old team and some other journalists to her home for dinner.

Story Contest to Boost Investigative Journalism in Africa

Code for Africa and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) have launched a half-million dollar story contest to support data-driven investigative reporting that sheds light on neglected or under-reported development topics in Africa.

The impactAFRICA initiative will support ground-breaking data journalism that tackles development issues such as public healthcare and leads to improvements in the lives and well-being of Africans.

ICFJ Knight Roundup: Former Knight Fellow Reacts to Controversial El Chapo Interview

Each week as part of the Knight International Media Innovators blog, the ICFJ Knight team will round up stories focused on how their fellows are making an impact in the field. Find out more about the fellows' projects by clicking here.

Kenyan Journalists Combat Government Corruption Despite Worsening Conditions

In the story of the hummingbird as narrated by celebrated Kenyan environmental activist, women’s rights advocate and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Wangari Maathai, the little bird did everything it could to put out a fire that was destroying the forest as other animals, big and small, stood by and watched their home being destroyed.

Corruption is destroying Kenya and a poll indicates

ICFJ Knight Roundup: Dodgy Doctors App Helps Nigerians Check Doctors' Credibility

Each week as part of the Knight International Media Innovators blog, the ICFJ Knight team will round up stories focused on how their fellows are making an impact in the field. Find out more about the fellows' projects by clicking here.

An app to find doctors in Nigeria, Innovation Fellowships in Kenya, and more from the Knight Fellows in this week’s roundup.

Dodgy Doctors app launches in Nigeria

Is your doctor a quack? For Nigerians, this question has been difficult to answer.

Knight Grants ICFJ $3.4 Million to Bring Global Innovations to U.S. Newsrooms

The International Center for Journalists today announced that it will expand its Knight International Journalism Fellows program to include a focus on sharing global journalism innovations with U.S. newsrooms. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is investing $3.4 million to support the expansion.

How ICFJ is Bringing Innovations From the Global South to U.S. Newsrooms

In April 2014 I attended the first U.S. gathering of Chicas Poderosas, a network created by International Center for Journalists' Knight Fellow Mariana Santos. The goal was to give Latina reporters skills that would make them digital news leaders. Santos had worked with Latin American journalists, and now she was targeting Miami.

Call for Nominations: Knight International Journalism Awards

Each November, the International Center for Journalists honors outstanding colleagues with the Knight International Journalism Award at our annual gala in Washington, D.C. We’re now seeking nominees who, despite difficult circumstances, produce pioneering news reports or innovations that have great impact. Candidates can be reporters, editors, technologists, media managers, citizen journalists or bloggers. Please send in your nominations by Wednesday, Feb.

'Dodgy Doctors' Helps Nigerians Find Out if Their Doctors are Con Artists

There is a cancer eating Nigeria’s healthcare system from the inside. The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) says large numbers of confidence tricksters or ‘quacks’ across the country are pretending to be doctors, without any medical training at all.

The parasites are motivated by money, charging unsuspecting patients for their ‘lifesaving’ services…but the real cost to Nigeria is calculated in human lives, with patients maimed or needlessly dying because of misdiagnosis and incorrect treatment.

“They are evil geniuses.

Investigative Reporters in Africa Triumph Despite Budget Cuts and Threats

A boom in investigative journalism in South Africa seems to be winding down as media houses slash budgets to balance their books to continue to pay dividends to shareholders.

In recent years, all the country's big media houses set up investigation units staffed by senior journalists who had the resources and time to mount major investigations.