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Meet Your New Best Friend: Hackers Aid Digital Journalists

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Hackers are journalists’ new best friends. They source, scrape, and program data – so reporters can uncover stories that might not otherwise be revealed. And slowly, they’re carving out a place in the assembly line of journalism, according to Miguel Paz, a journalist and founder of Poderopedia (http://www.poderopedia.org/), a website that exposes the relationships between the business and political world in Chile using publicly available dataHackers and computer geeks have to be your best friend he said, because “[they] know how to do things that you don’t know…You need that person and he needs you because you as a journalist….make good questions. Of course I know how to scrape and get the data out but what do i do with it? That’s where you come in.”

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Facebook, el Amigo Detective

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Aunque la compañía o persona que estamos investigando sea escurridiza y cautelosa, buscadores y redes sociales pueden llevarnos rápidamente al rastro de nuestro objetivo, al de sus amigos o al de quien tuitea junto a él. Paul Myers se ha consolidado como un experto en búsquedas en Internet y durante el workshop “Rastreando las redes sociales” mostró cómo encontrar lo que nunca conseguiríamos en una simple pesquisa en Google.

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Investigating the Environment to Solve a Murder Mystery

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Mark Schapiro’s job is to prevent murders. He is not a cop, nor a judge or a psychological counselor. Actually, Schapiro is an award-winning environmental journalist. Years ago, when Schapiro was collaborating with law enforcement officials in charge of enforcing environmental crimes, it dawned on him: “Whether the murder of an ecological system that supports us, or really, literally, a killing,” Schapiro says, “the core of environmental journalism is investigating murder and stopping it in the future.”

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Persecutions of International Investigative Journalists

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Immediately after the Global Investigative Reporters Conference (GIJC2013) opened for four-days of meetings this weekend, the first showcase panel assembled to just how dangerous it has become to speak truth to power. Investigative reporters and editors from Jordan, Peru, England and South Africa discussed their current projects and the dangers facing investigative journalist in their parts of the world.

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Los Retos del Periodismo de Investigación en México

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Es mucho lo que se dice sobre el periodismo de investigación en México. Que pocos periodistas quieren desarrollarse en esta área, que si es un “lujo” de algunos medios que cuentan con dinero suficiente o que es ahora, cuando algunos de los periodistas mexicanos están recibiendo el reconocimiento que merecen, incluso de manera internacional, como la periodista Alejandra Xanic, quién se ganó el Pulitzer con su investigación sobre las prácticas corruptas de Walmart en México.

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Just in! US$7,000 in Seed Grants for Best Prototypes at GIJC13 Hackfest

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Mariano Blejman, director of the News Innovation Program for Latin America (Pinlatam.org) and Justin Arenstein, executive committee representative of the African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR), have announced that their organizations will pledge US$ 7.000 in seed grants for best prototypes developed during Hack in Rio, the hackday at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, an event that combines the 8th Global Investigative Journalism Conference, the annual Latin America Investigative Journalism Conference (COLPIN), and the International Congress of ABRAJI (Brazil’s investigative journalism association).

New Investigative Dashboard Debuts in Rio

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Investigative Dashboard researcher Lejla Camdzic. It happens to every journalist at some point, you hit a wall in your investigation. Now there is a place you can go to find that vital piece of piece of information, the missing link in your cross-border story. Bring your questions to the Investigative Dashboard (ID) workshop to try this newly revamped investigative engine and to get assistance from professional researchers. The Investigative Dashboard, a research tool of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project developed in collaboration with Google Ideas, will launch late October but you can get a preview at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Rio this week.

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Hack in Rio 2013

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Come join us for Hack in Rio, a data journalism hackday focused on developing visualizations, apps, tools and web projects about government corruption, sports corruption and environmental issues.

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Coming to GIJC13 in Rio? Here’s What You Need to Know

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The Global Investigative Journalism Conference is getting close! We have more than 800 journalists from nearly 90 countries heading to Rio — Be sure to check our conference site, which is full of tips on everything from tourist spots to what clothes and adapters to bring. Here’s a quick guide on what to expect on arrival, getting to the conference site, food, wifi, and more.

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Eight Finalists Named for Global Shining Light Award

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Eight finalists have been selected for consideration in the fifth Global Shining Light Award, a unique prize which honors investigative journalism in a developing or transitioning country, done under threat, duress, or in the direst of conditions. The award will be announced and presented at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference this October 14 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The winner will receive an honorary certificate and $1,000.