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Argentine journalists create investigative reporting teamArgentine journalists create investigative reporting team
By Gabriel Michi
The Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA) launched its Investigative Reporting Unit this month with support from the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. The unit is a six-month pilot project that FOPEA plans to expand in the future.
The initial team consists of Gerardo Young (editor), Abel Escudero Zadrayec and Ricardo Mosso (reporters), and Martín Grosz (assistant). The team was chosen from several candidates within FOPEA. The positions will rotate every two months (except for the editor) in order to give more journalists the chance to participate.
Each team will spend two months investigating a topic of public interest. They will present their final product in several formats, including a multimedia package created on a special web page, and on FOPEA’s site.
The reports will be sent to all media outlets in the country simultaneously. Each news organization will be allowed to distribute the reports for free as long as FOPEA’s Investigative Reporting Unit is credited. FOPEA is using this methodology to ensure that public interest reporting reaches all citizens.
Each team will also provide a detailed explanation of how the investigation took place so that universities and journalism training programs can use it in their classes. This information will also allow working journalists (and all citizens) to understand the details of the project and to use the reporting team's tools, techniques and resources with ease.
This experience is the first of its kind in Argentina. The ability to conduct investigative journalism outside of a media company, with total independence and broad access, ensures that the reports will remain independent and immune from outside pressures and conditions. FOPEA’s experiment is based on the idea that the presence of good investigative journalism raises the standards and quality of the press overall.
Added Oct 30, 10:09, 2009
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