In LJR’s “Five Questions,” the veteran Argentine editor and media entrepreneur encourages colleagues to continue believing in “healthy” journalism that centers audience needs and the human stories that are transforming the world.
Digital satire programs, such as Mexico’s “El Pulso de la República” or Colombia’s “La Pulla,” are gaining increasing visibility and having big impacts on public discourse in their countries. They’re also filling the gap in sociopolitical criticism left by traditional media, according to research by Peruvian journalist and academic Paul Alonso.
Clarín and La Nación managed to make so much progress where many around the world have failed. From installing paywalls to offering exclusive content, here's how they've done it.
As women’s rights have advanced in Argentina, six in ten women journalists are facing a backlash of online violence, Amnesty International finds. ‘When progress is made, resistance is greater,’ said one editor.
Brazilian journalist Vanessa de Macedo Higgins Joyce focused on Argentina, Brazil and Colombia and found ways in which digital news media can build consensus in polarized societies.
In five questions with LJR, the Maria Moors Cabot Award special citation recipient talks about AI, her experiences at Argentina’s Chequeado and her new project in the U.S.
Three award-winning journalists from Argentina, Colombia and Cuba share tips to improve reporting, interviews and the use of language in a piece of narrative journalism.
Argentina’s pioneering Chequeado created a lab to run experiments with artificial intelligence. In their first run, they tested how four AI models could help simplify complicated concepts.
Lalo de Almeida of Brazil, Carlos Ernesto Martínez, of Salvadoran investigative site El Faro, John Otis of NPR and the Committee to Protect Journalists in the U.S. and Frances Robles of The New York Times are this year’s recipients of the 2024 Maria Moors Cabot Prize Gold Medals. Special citations go to InSight Crime and Laura Zommer.
At the end of June, the Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA) said that fake screenshots of alleged conversations from its steering committee were disseminated in a “clear defamation campaign from digital operators linked to the government.” The country's president himself, Javier Milei, participated in the attacks. Paula Moreno, president of FOPEA, spoke to LJR about the episode, which takes place amidst tensions between the government and the press.
A Reuters Institute study showed that the most popular generative AI platform in Argentina is by far ChatGPT, although very few people use it to get news. It also showed that Argentines have slightly more confidence than people from other countries that the news media make responsible use of this technology. Two journalists from that country shared their opinion on the findings.
The importance of monitoring disinformation in political campaigns, the risks of using social networks to influence public discourse and the current role of fact checking were some topics that panelists from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico addressed at the International Journalism Festival 2024, in Perugia, Italy.