No one really knows how many people are buried in clandestine graves across Mexico in the wake of the country’s drug wars. Mexican officials say 662 bodies were found in 201 graves in 16 Mexican states between August 2006 and October 2015. But as Dawn Paley reported for The Nation, the tally could be far more staggering: During the same ...
By Roza Hovhannisyan With the assistance of the Fund for Investigative Journalism, I attended the Summer Conference of the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London on July 14-16, 2016. It was an excellent opportunity to improve my professional skills. The three-day conference included training sessions on various topics, and over 150 journalists from different countries of the world could choose ...
By Idris Akinbajo LONDON — Gavin MacFadyen’s passion could be heard in his voice as he welcomed the scores of journalists and media professionals gathering for a three-day investigative journalism conference organized by the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London. Journalism in the UK and indeed globally was at a crucial stage, said MacFadyen, the centre’s director. Only good investigative journalism, he ...
(Washington) If you’ve got a great story, you can find the funding to get it done. That was the message from Phillip Martin, WGBH-Boston senior investigative reporter and a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. “There’s always a place for good journalism and there’s always funding for good journalism,” he told a packed conference ...
As reported in Nonprofit Quarterly, “For journalism to be ingenious, groundbreaking, and accurate, we need a plethora of voices. Recognizing the value of diverse perspectives, the Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) and the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University are partnering to distribute a grant from the Ford Foundation to support female journalists and journalists of color.” ...
FIJ and Schuster Institute Launch Initiative for Diversity in Social Justice Investigative Reporting Without greater diversity in journalism, some very important stories are never pitched, some assignments never made, facts never gathered, and serious abuses of power never uncovered. Through a collaboration underwritten by a Ford Foundation grant, The Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) and the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University have ...
The Fund for Investigative Journalism is sending six training fellows to conferences and symposiums across the globe. Marianna Grigoryan, the editor-in-chief and an investigative reporter for MediaLab.am in Yereven, Armenia, recently attended the Logan Symposium in Berlin, which was organized by the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ). Thoughts About Today and Tomorrow From the Logan CIJ Symposium By Marianna Grigoryan I ...
From Rosalia Omungo for the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, an investigation of the impact of a dam built by Ethiopia on the ability of Kenyans to make a living in the Lake Turkana area. View the series here: Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Part Four. [Reporting sponsored by The Reva and David Logan Foundation.] Photo credit: Chris Lomusia ...
FIJ Grant Recipients Continue Long Tradition of Uncovering Untold Stories The hundreds of journalists we’ve supported over the years have made a tremendous impact. But the most significant beneficiaries are the readers and communities who use the reports that grants from the Fund help produce to inform decisions, advance change, and support social progress. Beyond Seymour Hersh’s groundbreaking investigation of ...
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