At the 18th Iberoamerican Colloquium on Digital Journalism, the regional director for the International Fund for Public Interest Media spoke about lessons learned in the two years since the fund’s launch.
After floods displaced 615,000 people in southern Brazil, local media struggled to stay active. Now, Reporters Without Borders has launched a project to help small outlets prepare for future crises.
In recognition of satire’s growing impact on political communication, the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is offering a free online course, Satiric Infotainment in the Digital Age. This course will explore how satire in magazines, TV and digital platforms challenges traditional media and shapes political discourse globally.
The Knight Center is excited to present an accessible and practical workshop: Understanding Protomaps: An Introduction to Open-Source, Interactive Maps for News with mapping and data expert John Keefe.
In Ecuador’s northern border region, where journalist Patricio Aguilar was killed last month, violence, precarity, and lack of state protection are driving reporters to self-censor or leave the profession—deepening the region’s vacuum of information.
We asked some of Latin America’s top investigative journalists which tools—both new and established—are powering their reporting. Here’s what they’re using to track public contracts, map networks of power, and make sense of mountains of information.
Scholars warn that press freedom in Latin America is threatened not only by dictatorships but also by democratic governments and media capture. At the Iberoamerican Colloquium on Digital Journalism, they called for innovative, collaborative responses.
As systematic persecution by the Ortega-Murillo regime forces entire newsrooms to flee, exile has become a defining feature of Nicaraguan journalism. At the Ibero-American Colloquium on Digital Journalism, reporters shared their efforts to report, resist and stay safe.
Researchers from the Worlds of Journalism Study examined safety, editorial freedom, and pressures facing journalists in 11 Latin American countries. At the Iberoamerican Colloquium on Digital Journalism in Austin, they shared findings from Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Mexico.
At the Ibero-American Colloquium on Digital Journalism, outlets from across the region shared initiatives to confront funding challenges, declining trust, the rise of AI, and attacks on the press.
The late Max McCombs, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. pioneered the internationally-recognized theory on the agenda-setting role of media.
“You have to go” is the phrase that defines the exile of Venezuelan journalists and the title of the most recent investigation by Luz Mely Reyes, co-founder of digital media outlet Efecto Cocuyo. Her new study reveals how censorship and persecution have forced many to leave their country and reinvent themselves abroad.