It is estimated that each year up to 2,000 billion dollars are recycled, much of it through companies that allow the identity of the beneficiaries of the money to be kept secret. Tracking financia...
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Turkey ranks in 149th place in the Reporters without Borders World Press Freedom Index, below Zimbabwe and Burma/Myanmar. In its 2014 report, Freedom House demoted Turkish media from being “partly...
Separating fact from fiction: understanding the most effective tools and techniques for verifying social content. In this workshop, led by two of First Draft’s verification experts, participant...
A major new UN study of 121 countries' legal source protection frameworks has found that they are out of date and need strengthening in many cases. It also recommends that ‘acts of journalism’ s...
How are news media investing in and fostering innovation? Does this work better when launching a new start up, such as Ze.tt from the Zeit Online publisher, or creating a separate unit within the p...
In July 2015, the small editorial team of netzpolitik.org was notified that their journalists were under investigation by the German Public Prosecutor General and faced at least two years in prison....
Theopi Skarlatos and Paul Mason on the making of #ThisIsACoup, a four-part 2015 documentary series which examines life under austerity in Greece, the country’s confrontation with the EU, and the e...
Start from a datasheet to build an interactive map. Use MyMaps to produce rapidly an interactive map with markers, pictures and links. Learn how to use Streeview and its resources of historical and ...
Different cross-border projects in the last few years have made it clear that pan-European data-driven journalism is not only a possibility but can also have impact. We want to present a collaborati...
In an ideal world, public service media are supposed to deliver a healthy dose of impartial quality journalism (in news and other factual offerings), to inform and stimulate their constituents' cont...