Tackling the Challenges of a Thriving, Free Press in Haiti

By: ICFJ | 03/05/2012

GlobalPost's GroundTruth blog featured the work of Knight International Journalism Fellow Kathie Klarreich, working in Haiti to build a network of trained investigative journalists. It details the many, many challenges journalists in that country face, not the least of which includes newsrooms that still have not recovered from the devastation of the January 2010. It also highlights Klarraich's Fund for Investigative Journalism which she organized to encourage the tracking of aid money.

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