Reporting Tools & Tips
5 Free Open Source Digital Tools to Combat Disinformation
Developed by Brazilian media outlets in late 2024, the solutions are available free of charge to any journalistic organization inside and outside Brazil.
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LatAm Journalism Review
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How Publishing Investigations as Books Can Add Depth, Increase Visibility, and Fight Censorship
In this story, several investigative journalists from Mexico speak about the experience of turning their exposés into books.
How They Did It News & Analysis
How Two Reporters Found 63 Political Candidates Wanted by Brazilian Courts
A data investigation looked into the lack of transparency in Brazilian elections that allows candidates wanted for crimes to run for office without public knowledge.
How They Did It Methodology
Combining Ethnography and Journalism Into an Award-Winning Investigation in Central America
Two Salvadoran investigative journalists discuss their ethnographic reporting on the impact of the drug trade on the La Moskitia Indigenous region of Central America.
Reporting Tools & Tips Teaching & Training
Best Practices for Election Coverage Using YouTube
Tips from a workshop on how journalists and media outlets can better use YouTube in their election coverage.
News & Analysis
5 Questions for Venezuelan Journalist Ronna Rísquez on Overcoming Fear, Covering Organized Crime, and Working as a Woman Journalist
Venezuelan journalist Ronna Rísquez has covered violence and organized crime in South America for more than 20 years. In conversation with LatAm Journalism Review, Rísquez talks about the challenges she has faced practicing journalism as a woman and about the threats she received before publishing her first solo book.
Data Journalism
How Bellingcat and Forensic Architecture Teamed Up with Colombia’s Cerosetenta to Map Police Violence
Colombian media outlet Cerosetenta joined the international collective of journalists and researchers Bellingcat and research agency Forensic Architecture to map police violence during ongoing protests in Colombia and, in a second step, to reconstruct crimes committed in this context.