Local Journalism Project Case Study: Kloop (Kyrgyzstan)   The backstory: Kyrgyzstan lacks independent media organizations that hold the government accountable. In response, Kloop was founded in 2007 by Bektour Iskender and Rinat Tuhvatshin and has become both a news website with a local focus and a journalism school known for teaching investigative reporting and media […]

Local Journalism Project Case Study: Khabar Lahariya   Backstory: Khabar Lahariya offers hyper-local watchdog journalism with a feminist lens. Founded by a Delhi-based NGO as a weekly print edition in 2002, Khabar Lahariya began as a women’s collective led by a group of urban and rural feminists. Eighteen years later, the “country’s only digital rural […]

Case Study: ABO Local Media Development Agency, Ukraine   The backstory: ABO launched after Ukraine passed a 2015 law on the “destatization” – the removal of state influence – as part of a reform of state and municipal media. Before this reform, much of Ukrainian local media was state-funded, which undermined their independence. The goal […]

Local Journalism Project Case Study: El Surtidor (Paraguay)   The backstory: El Surtidor (also called El Surti) was born in 2016 as a Facebook page founded by a group of journalists and designers to become a benchmark for visual journalism in Latin America. Paraguay has one of the most unequal land distributions in the world, which […]