This document discusses approaches for investigative journalists to promote safety and resilience in Latin America. It notes that journalists in the region face violence and self-censorship. The study aims to explore how independent journalists create safer environments to continue their work. It identifies three spheres of safety - physical, digital, and legal. The findings discuss strategies like training, risk assessment, collaboration, and support from diverse entities to promote safety, as well as challenges like the "normalization of repression" and "fake news laws."
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Approaches of resistance and resilience for investigative journalism in Latin America
1. APPROACHES OF
RESISTANCE AND
RESILIENCE FOR
INVESTIGATIVE
JOURNALISM IN LATIN
AMERICA
November 2020
LUCIA MESQUITA, DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY (DCU)
MATHIAS-FELIPE DE-LIMA-SANTOS, UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA
(UNAV)
THIS PROJECT HAS RECEIVED FUNDING FROM THE EUROPEAN UNIONS HORIZON 2020 RESEARCH AND
INNOVATION PROGRAMME UNDER THE MARIE SKODOWSKA-CURIE GRANT AGREEMENT NO 765140
3. CONSEQUENCES
Self-censorship (Hughes and M叩rquez-Ram鱈rez 2017; Gonz叩lez and Rodelo 2020; Fadnes et al. 2020)
Collaboration (Chac坦n and Salda単a 2020)
REFLECTION ON THE LITERATURE
Ongoing violence (Hughes and M叩rquez-Ram鱈rez 2017)
Precarization (Matthews and Onyemaobi 2020)
End of official censorship (Salda単a and Mour達o 2018)
Technology and the double-edged effect on digital safety (Gonz叩lez and Rodelo 2020)
4. THE PROBLEM
Drawing from literature that explores the safety of
journalists and self-censorship practices around the
world, the present study aims to explore the different
ways that investigative journalists from independent,
nonprofit and small organizations are using to create a
safer environment to continue working