In May, a new cycle of the Climate Tracker Climate Journalism Mentoring Program began. It seeks to bring together journalists from Latin America and the Caribbean to produce climate stories, with a special focus on just energy transition. LatAm Journalism Review (LJR) spoke with editors and alumni of the program to learn more about the initiative.
Considering the media crisis in Venezuela, Academia Prodavinci, the educational division of the investigative journalism organization, launched a journalist training program this year. It seeks to train journalists and students in topics such as health, economics and gender inequality in order to contribute to the development of a more solid, contextualized and analytical journalism.
Several decades have passed since the last dictatorial regimes were established in the Southern Cone of Latin America. Human rights defenders and a journalist talk about the challenges of reporting on the recent past, and why it is important to continue doing so.
Peru's parliamentarians launched various attacks to restrict press freedom, and journalist associations are resisting as best they can. A controversial bill may fail in Congress, but other threatening initiatives remain under discussion, reflecting deteriorating democratic conditions in the country.
"Advanced digital investigations: How reporters can dig into online information and sources” runs from June 12 to July 16. In five weeks, instructors Craig Silverman and Jane Lytvynenko will teach how to investigate social media profiles, digital ads, messaging apps, images, and video! You’ll also build a workflow to organize the collected material.
Venezuelan journalists in Ecuador, Peru and the United States talked to LatAm Journalism Review (LJR) about their experience as journalists specializing in migration. They give advice on how to avoid stigmatization of migrants in the media. They also explain the advantages, disadvantages and emotional costs of telling stories that intersect through their own lives.
A project of Bolivia Verifica (Bolivia), with mentoring and support from Proyecto Desconfío (Argentina), seeks to promote dialogue, reflection and a culture of peace among Bolivian society by monitoring and verifying hate speech posts on social media aimed at vulnerable groups, and by distributing verified content through WhatsApp.
Two journalists analyzed in depth the discourse of rulings for change of name and gender of trans people in Peru. They told LJR about the challenges of analyzing 208 sentences through data journalism, while taking care of their own mental health in the process.
Women and LGBTQ+ people are especially vulnerable to violence in the workspace. To address this problem in newsrooms, the digital news outlet GK and the Rights and Justice Observatory (ODJ, by its Spanish acronym) developed a protocol to prevent gender-based violence in these spaces and make them safer for people who work there.
The Brazilian Internet Steering Committee published a report on the payment for journalistic content by digital platforms. The study traces an overview of the Brazilian debate and identifies the positions of the actors involved, as well as discusses regulatory frameworks in other countries.
Representatives of Radio Ambulante, Dementes, Revista Late, Dudas Media, and Convoy Network spoke at the Estación Podcast festival about aspects of sound content creation in Latin America. These include financing methods, the value of catering to a defined audience and the importance of protecting the intellectual property of productions in the face of streaming platforms.
A free, self-directed online course for journalists to adopt product thinking in their newsrooms is now available to take at any time and at your own pace. “News product management: How to adopt ‘product thinking’ in your newsroom” is taught in Portuguese by Paty Gomes.