"Courageous investigations into migrant abuses in Mexico; attacks on Amazonian Indigenous communities, reckless foreign combat recruitment by Russia, and a harmful cult in Africa have won Global Shining Light Award (GSLA) honors during a gala event at the 14th Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC25) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
This unique prize honors watchdog journalism in developing or transitioning countries, carried out under threat or in perilous conditions. Open for public interest investigative projects published between Jan. 1, 2023 to Dec. 31, 2024, the competition attracted 410 entries from 97 countries.
[The winners in Latin America were:]
Noticias Telemundo and the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (El CLIP), in collaboration with ICIJ, Bellingcat, Pie de Página, Chiapas Paralelo (Mexico), En un 2×3 Tamaulipas (Mexico), Plaza Pública (Guatemala), and Contracorriente (Honduras)
Mongabay Latam, Earth Genome"
