Reporters earning less than the minimum wage in Oaxaca and Veracruz accept payments for coverage, blurring the line between journalism and paid promotion.
The alliance identified the actors and industries behind online harassment that can often precede real-world violence.
Former Gov. Javier Duarte is in jail, but the threats remain: corruption, organized crime and a justice system marred by impunity.
Mexican journalists who investigate alleged ties between politicians and drug cartels explain how they verify leaked information, avoid being manipulated and safely cover organized crime networks.
Few journalists have devoted as much time to reporting on organized crime as Ioan Grillo. In an interview with LJR, he reflects on the challenges, lessons and stories that stay with him.
Women activists from Oaxaca secured the first license of its kind in Mexico to create the station Voces Afromexicanas. Now, they face challenges keeping it afloat.
Despite new obstacles to accessing public information, investigators used open data and network analysis to trace decades of contracts linked to shell companies.
Media outlets and content creators are turning to "algospeak"—the alteration of words or the use of euphemisms—to maintain visibility and evade algorithmic restrictions.
Journalists at La Silla Rota in Mexico developed a tool that cross-references metrics and trends to decide what to cover and how.
“Las prendas hablan,” a project developed by journalists and hackers in Mexico, turned images of abandoned clothing into a searchable catalog for families, and a record of questions ignored by the justice system.
Through letters, prison visits and requests for access to information, Belgian journalist Arthur Debruyne investigated a Mexican drug trafficking arm starting with a case in Europe.
Independent journalist Reyna Haydee Ramírez describes how confronting two Mexican presidents at their morning press conferences has led to stigmatization and online abuse.