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.
These two tools work like research assistants to help journalists search through documents and come away with summaries, and also aid in analyzing data more easily.
Political journalists warn that Trump in his second term shows an unprecedented disregard for democratic norms. With no internal dissent, his loyal allies enable his efforts to distort reality and sideline critical media.
Journalists from El Salvador, India, Hungary and Turkey share how autocratic regimes in their countries have weakened freedom of expression and offer U.S. journalists a glimpse of what may come.