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ICFJ Knight Roundup: Fellows' Projects Profiled in "Africa Investigates" Podcast

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.

ICFJ-Supported Projects Win Journalism Award for Increasing Transparency

Argentine fact-checking platform Chequeado and a team of reporters who exposed a potential conflict of interest involving the Mexican government have been named winners of the Gabriel García Márquez Journalism Prize.

More than 1,300 organizations from 30 Latin American countries entered the competition, sponsored by the Foundation for New Ibero-American Journalism (FNPI).

"Yo Quiero Saber" App Aims to Help Voters in Argentina Choose a Candidate

Citizens have different ways of getting to know political candidates, but the information available about them is often dispersed, unorganized and unclear.

ICFJ Knight Roundup: Influencing Mobile News Strategies in India, Africa

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.

ICFJ Knight Roundup: HacksLab Project Wins Prominent Journalism Award

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.

How to Connect with a Mobile News Audience

The vast majority of your audience is now reading your stories and watching your videos on mobile. So why are YOU reading and watching them on a desktop?

That was one of the messages from experts to journalists who attended the recent Mobile News Summit hosted by the Poynter Institute at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York.

ICFJ Knight Roundup: Using Hackdash, This American Life Hosts Audio Hackathon

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.

Doing the Tango with Media Innovation in Argentina

I got engaged at the Media Party in Buenos Aires.

No, I did not fall in love with some sultry tango dancer. I got engaged by a plethora of projects from across Latin America that aim to pull audiences into the news -- everything from fact-checking politicians' blather to making tough decisions about the national budget to rating health care services.

What's Keeping the Media Away From the Open Data Chat?

In early September, hundreds of open data practitioners, civil servants, researchers, technologists and specialists in health, agriculture, governance and education gathered in Tanzania for the first Africa Open Data Conference.

But the media were largely missing from the event apart from during the opening plenary by Dr.

ICFJ Knight Roundup: ANCIR Advisor Named Finalist for Global Shining Light Award

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.