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Venezuela: Investigative journalist Ronna Rísquez receives threats after publishing a book

The IPI global network condemns the recent online threats against Venezuelan  journalist Ronna Rísquez, and calls on the Venezuelan authorities to carry out a thorough, independent, and transparent investigation into these threats and to ensure Rísquez and her family are protected. Rísquez is an investigative journalist who has over 20 years of experience covering violence, […]

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Part 2: Venezuela’s local media collaborates to tell big stories

It’s a photo that tells clashing stories: on its surface, the idyll of a water-side childhood; underneath, the destructive pollution from mining. It’s Fabiola Ferrero’s shot from deep in the immensity of the Gran Sabana in Venezuela’s south, capturing a Pemón child floating mid-air as he dives from steep banks into an almost magically blue […]

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Part 1: How journalists tell the story of South America’s giant river basins

The vast interconnected rain-forest basins fed by the giant river systems of the Amazon and the Orinoco are at the centre of the global crisis of economic degradation and global warming. For media, it’s a challenge that’s both critically transnational and profoundly local. To manage the crisis, local media from Venezuela and Brazil are forging […]

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How new Latin American voices are breaking the media mold – Part 2: Filling the void

New digital and local media are turning to a journalism of solutions across Latin America, filling the void left by the weakness in the public realm, write Andres Schafer and Nathalie Alvaray in this second part of their deep dive into how journalists and media builders are breaking the mold.   Across Latin America new […]

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