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ICFJ Knight Fellow Stephen Abbott Pugh on Access to Information, New Technology

Last week, ICFJ and the Code for Africa team announced that Stephen Abbott Pugh would join the joint project as the newest Knight International Journalism Fellow.

Originally from the United Kingdom, Abbott Pugh moved to Rwanda in 2014 where he saw an opportunity to make a difference, launching an information access website for ordinary citizens to request government documents.

How to Roll Out Technology in the Newsroom

Juan Manuel Casanueva is an ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellow based in Mexico. Casanueva is working to improve collaboration between technologists, journalists and civil society organizations in Latin America.

Implementing technology projects in newsrooms or media organizations that traditionally don’t have tech support can be quite a challenge. Here are five suggestions for those starting such a tech endeavor, based on my work with technologists and media organizations in Latin America.

The Challenges, Potential of Drone Journalism

Drones, the new camera-in-the-sky technology, offer great potential for journalism. Also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), drones give reporters a bird’s-eye view of natural disasters like Nepal’s earthquake and offer full-scale perspectives of environmental problems like dump sites in Kenya.

ICFJ Knight Roundup: AfriLEAKS Launches, Chicas Poderosas Holds Event at Stanford

How sensor technology measures air quality, AfriLEAKS launches in South Africa, a fellow hosts a drone meetup in Nigeria and more in this week's roundup. 

New tools created with sensor technology to measure air quality

Former ICFJ Knight Fellow Gustavo Faleiros helped build new low-cost sensor technology to measure air

Blowing the Whistle: Collaborative Investigations in Africa

Top editors and investigative journalists in South Africa have welcomed a new whistleblowing platform designed to protect sources who leak sensitive information to the media.

Cuatro proyectos de la red impulsada por ICFJ en Latinoamérica fueron nominados a los premios SIP

Periodistas asociados con la red CONNECTAS, una plataforma que cuenta con el apoyo del Centro Internacional para Periodistas (ICFJ por sus siglas en inglés), produjeron cuatro de los 13 proyectos nominados en las diferentes categorías del premio Excelencia Periodística 2015" que otorga la Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (SIP).

ICFJ Partner Publishes Investigation for Khadija Project

ICFJ's longtime partner, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), has published another major investigation on its Khadija Project website, named after Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova.

United Airlines anuncia patrocinio de Chicas Poderosas, proyecto de capacitación tecnológica para periodistas

CHICAGO, 9 de junio de 2015 ‒ United Airlines ha anunciado su patrocinio del proyecto Chicas Poderosas, cuyo propósito es crear un cuerpo de mujeres líderes en medios digitales y aumentar el número de periodistas latinoamericanas que trabajan directamente con la tecnología en las salas de redacción.

United Airlines to Sponsor Chicas Poderosas Journalism Technology Training

CHICAGO, June 9, 2015 ‒ United Airlines has announced its sponsorship of the Chicas Poderosas (“Powerful Women”) project, which is designed to create a corps of female digital media leaders in Latin America and increase the number of Latin American women journalists working directly with newsroom technologies.

ICFJ Knight Roundup: Investigating the Mafia in Africa, Cargografías Launches

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.