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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).

Award-Winning Stories Illuminate Health Challenges Faced by Children and Women

From Brazil’s “crack-baby” epidemic to a mobile-phone app that is saving the lives of pregnant women in Cameroon, the entries that won the International Center for Journalists’ (ICFJ) 2015 Global Health Reporting Contest illuminate the complex challenges facing communities and health-care providers around the world.

More than 150 journalists submitted stories for the contest, which is sponsored by Johnson & Johnson. The six winners will participate in a 10-day study tour of the United States this fall.

"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.

How Online Tool MuckRock is Using Tech to Bring FOIA Requests into the 21st Century

Over the last 20 years, while technology increased the efficiency of most areas, the time taken to fulfill Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests has actually increased.

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.