Reasons for optimism #3: journalists around the world

Thousands of organizations are collaborating to produce public-service journalism Why write about “reasons for optimism” when so much is going wrong in our politics, economy, and environment? Optimism gives us confidence we can make things better. As I like to say, it’s another day of opportunity. Quality journalism takes time and is expensive. It requires […]

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Investigative journalism: great return on investment

Between fines and recovered funds, journalists get results Lately a couple of us here at the University of Navarra have been looking for models of high-quality journalism that are sustainable. As it turns out, many of the best news organizations that are thriving are doing investigative journalism. Readers like this type of journalism, which holds […]

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Panama Papers: Lone-wolf journalists form a pack

Investigative journalists have achieved a new level of sophistication and collaboration as shown by this explosive investigation of offshore tax havens used by the wealthy and powerful. The investigation by 109 media organizations from 76 countries has shaken government leaders from China to Russia to Great Britain. It has led to the resignation of the prime minister of […]

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Panama Papers: Cuando el perro guardián trabaja en equipo

La explosiva investigación sobre los paraísos fiscales usados por políticos y grandes fortunas supone un nuevo nivel de sofisticación y colaboración en la profesión periodística.  La dimisión del primer ministro de Islandia, cuyas maniobras financieras en un paraíso fiscal para evitar impuestos sobre unos 3,5 millones de euros ha sido desvelada en esos Panama Papers, demuestra […]

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Investigative journalists form alliance in Latin America

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The United States has been the world’s biggest market for just about everything, including illegal drugs, and that creates big problems for its neighbors. Carla Minet Versión en español So much money from the drug trade flows into Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean that it corrupts governments, courts, police, […]

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