Mexico

Fortalecimiento de periodismo de investigación y transparencia en México y Centroamérica

ICFJ anuncia iniciativa de periodismo de investigación y seguridad para México y Centroamérica

Los periodistas participantes deben tener un fuerte compromiso con el periodismo de investigación y deben estar dispuestos a trabajar en equipos a través de fronteras. Los periodistas que trabajan en México o Centroamérica en medios en línea, impresos, radio o televisión son elegibles para participar en este programa destinado a mejorar las habilidades del periodismo de investigación y fortalecer la seguridad de los periodistas en la región.

Strengthening Investigative Reporting and Transparency in Mexico and Central America

ICFJ announces an investigative reporting initiative for Mexico and Central America.

Participating journalists should have a strong commitment to investigative reporting and should be willing to work in teams across borders. Journalists working in Mexico or Central America for online, print or broadcast media are welcome to apply.

Feb 122013

New Study: Combating Cyberattacks Against Mexican Journalists

A survey conducted by Knight International Journalism Fellow Jorge Luis Sierra shows that Mexican journalists and bloggers are at great risk of cyber-espionage, email-account hacking and other serious digital threats. The highly sensitive nature of most of the topics they cover (such as crime, corruption, violence and human rights issues) make them even more vulnerable.

Program: 
Panama: Develop a New System to Map and Investigate Crime and Corruption
Sep 182012

ICFJ Fellow: Human Smugglers Use the Pacific Ocean for Trafficking

Orange County Register reporter Cindy Carcamo traveled between Mexico and the United States as an International Reporting Fellow to cover the latest frontier in human smuggling and the shifting battle over illegal immigration to California's coast.

Read her series here.

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Bringing Home the World: International Reporting Fellowship Program for Minority Journalists
May 142012

Knight Fellow in Mexico Offers Safety Training, Tips for Reporters

There are few places in the world more dangerous for a reporter to cover corruption, drug trafficking and crime than Mexico. Knight International Journalism Fellow Jorge Luis Sierra, who works in both Mexico and Panama, offers training and advice on how to stay safe despite the dangers. Sierra teaches an online class, part of a series of courses offered by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas and featured in a recent blog.

Program: 
Panama: Develop a New System to Map and Investigate Crime and Corruption

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.

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A special video commends the work of 2011 Knight Award winners from Mexico for their bold reporting on the devastation drug lords are wreaking in the town of Juárez.

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José Zamora of Knight Foundation revealed that Mexican investigative reporters Rocío Idalia Gallegos Rodríguez and Sandra Rodríguez Nieto and Cambodian journalist Thet Sambath will receive the Knight International Journalism awards.