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Reporting tool boosts cross-border data investigations in Latin America

As media outlets in Latin America face sustainability challenges, NINA has become a tool for facilitating cross-border investigations. Despite high maintenance costs, the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP) supports this platform, allowing journalists to save time and resources in their search for key information.

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10 advanced AI concepts every journalist should know (and how they can be applied in the newsroom)

Learn the meaning of advanced AI terms such as data mining, predictive analytics, and semantic search. See examples of how journalists and news outlets around the world have applied these concepts to make the most of AI in their daily work.

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Reporters bring investigations to life on stage as way to create meaningful connection to audience

Through a theatrical performance, investigative journalists from Colombian site Rutas del Conflicto tell the story of how the Sikuani Indigenous people were displaced from their ancestral home.

Inside a Puerto Rican newsroom’s experiment with AI-powered translations to reach English-speaking audiences

Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism, with support from the American Journalism Project, has developed a custom AI assistant that supports—but doesn’t replace—human editors translating news articles.

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Brazilian journalists adopt AI, but sector sees economic threat, research shows

The report Journalism and Artificial Intelligence – Impact on Brazilian publishers shows that AI is boosting productivity in Brazilian newsrooms but failing to drive innovation. Meanwhile, media outlets face growing risks as Big Techs exploit their content to attract traffic and train their AI.

Digital illustration with a yellow background depicting a sequence of stylized male figures wearing 19th-century formal attire in alternating blue, black, and red colors. At the center, a small enslaved Black figure pulls the tie of one of the men, who is dressed in black with a white sash and holding a whip.

Brazilian investigative site uses genealogy to trace links between today’s politicians and slavery of the past

Combining investigative journalism and academic research, Agência Pública's unprecedented project mapped the genealogies of 116 Brazilian politicians to show links between power and the country's slave-owning past.

The most important stories of 2024, according to the LatAm Journalism Review team

In 2024, journalists from Mexico to Nicaragua to Brazil faced mounting violence, censorship and harassment — yet persisted through courageous reporting. Here are our reporters’ most pressing and memorable stories of the year.

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10 groundbreaking news projects that made an impact in Latin America in 2024

From AI tools to combat censorship and disinformation to international collaborations exposing cross-border crime, these 10 projects advanced journalism and made an impact on their communities.

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Gender choice in media chatbots can reproduce sexist stereotypes

Chatbots with traditionally feminine names can reflect how technology perpetuates gender stereotypes, linking women to service-oriented roles. Despite the intention of neutrality, these elections can continue to reproduce a traditional view of gender roles in society.

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Want to change money in Cuba? It’ll probably involve an exiled news outlet — and AI

El Toque’s informal exchange rate is used by taxi drivers, restaurateurs, and small businesses across the island. It’s also grown the news site’s traffic tenfold.

Créditos: El Estor, 22 de octubre de 2021. Foto Nelton Rivera

Prensa Comunitaria redefines representation of marginalized populations in Guatemalan media

Despite threats, violence and criminalization against the journalistic profession in Guatemala, news agency Prensa Comunitaria has been changing the way women, youth and Indigenous peoples are covered in the media for 12 years.

Participants of Cari-Bois' inaugural Youth Environmental Journalism Project listen attentively during the project's closing ceremony in October 2023.

Citizen journalists try to fill gap in environmental reporting in Trinidad and Tobago

In a region that’s especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change, environmental content platform Cari-Bois is training teenagers and adults to report on their communities.