Elclip.org
- Held on Wednesday, January 22 at 16:00 CET
IPI’s Local News & Innovation Network will host a virtual newsroom visit to Elclip.org – El Centro Latinoamericano de Investigación Periodística (CLIP), based in Costa Rica, on January 22 at 16:00 CET .
El Clip is an independent media organization committed to fostering collaborative cross-border investigative journalism and leveraging technological innovation to serve journalism in Latin America.
Founded in 2019, El Clip emerged from a vision shared by journalists Giannina Segnini (Costa Rica), Marina Walker-Guevara (Argentina), and María Teresa Ronderos (Colombia) to create a Latin American center for investigations that puts transparency and community at the forefront of its work.
From its very first year, El Clip tackled complex transnational projects, such as Faith Transnationals, which brought together 16 media outlets across 13 countries to uncover the growing influence of religious fundamentalism in the region; and The Miroslava Project, which delved into years of reporting by Mexican journalists on the murder of investigative reporter Miroslava Breach.
Since then, El Clip has expanded its team and built partnerships with journalists spanning the United States, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. It has also collaborated with international organizations like Bellingcat and is a member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN).
In this virtual newsroom visit, the El Clip team will introduce us to their database product: NINA, a collaborative database that enables journalists to access every kind of public document, contract, and dataset in Latin America. Recognized as one of GIJN’s Top Investigative Tools of 2024, NINA uses AI to process unstructured data, and allows journalists to upload, index, search, and share their own datasets—all without the need for special technical skills.
The tool has been used in investigations of lithium-related conflicts in Chile and Argentina, and election abuses in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Ecuador.
At the newsroom visit, we will hear from:
- Rigoberto Carvajal, Information Architect and Tech Lead
- José Luis Peñarredonda, Community Editor
- Angela Cantador, Journalist
What are the Virtual Newsroom Visits?
Virtual Newsroom Visits – a series of virtual live events, open to the wider public and promoted in our IPI members network, as well as the IPI’s Local News and Innovation Network. In the series, we invite experienced, innovative independent media organizations to share the BTS of their media business. These first-hand stories serve as a resource and inspiration for other journalism organizations striving to make a positive impact in their communities.
The broader goal is to level up the floor of the industry’s understanding and knowledge and create opportunities for exchange, helping our peers to do the best journalism for our communities. We now open the 4th season of IPI’s newsroom visits, organized as part of IPI’s Local News & Innovation Network, which hosts our Slack community for peer-to-peer discussion.
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IPI’s virtual newsroom visits are made possible by support from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF).
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