GIJC2013

Research: “Investigative journalism and the specifics of crime coverage of a murder in Jornal de Santa Catarina” (Portuguese)

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Based on the analysis of the police coverage of the murder of Elfy Eggert, a young ‘Blumenauense’ (somebody from Blummenau) from Santa Catarina, this article discusses the need for specific procedures to follow journalism about crimes. This is reflected in the research that is part of everyday life of the journalist, particularly in the city of Blumenau, with approximately 300,000 inhabitants in southern Brazil. This confirms gaps are found, as the knowledge of the peculiarities of police reports, noticeable in the case of death of the civil servant, Elfy Eggert .There have been two years of materials and consequences of the fact, that resulted in the conviction of the accused as co-authors of the crime through evidence. The research involved 127 texts.

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Research: “Data journalism in an Environment of Competing Government Media: Where to begin? Ecuador case” (Spanish)

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This academic essay explores which first steps could be taken by journalists and media to boost data journalism amid an atmosphere of constant struggle between the government and the press. The essay focuses on the analysis of the Ecuadorian case, with brief references to data journalism developments in other countries. In Ecuador there is an Access to Public Information law, but compliance with the law is not fully achieved.

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Research: “Journalism and Social Appropriation of Knowledge” (Spanish)

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In Latin America, the 1997 UNESCO directives and the laws that protect the provision of higher education consider, besides the teaching, extracurricular activities and research as a central part of its mission. The research should foster the search and generation of knowledge of the universities.

Consequently, social communication and journalism programs, in pursuit of increasingly competent and comprehensive students who aim for long term journalism and not just breaking news, urgently need to depend less on curricular program training and rather pursue an investigative culture that contributes to the professional skills of their graduates.

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Research: “Learning to be Guided by Data: The Training of Journalists Team Estadão Data” (Portuguese)

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The article presents the partial results of over 50 hours of non-participant observation of the routines of the first team of data -driven journalism ( JGD ) formed in the Brazilian press : journalists and programmers responsible for publishing Estadão data, from the newspaper O Estado de São Paul . The observations are complemented by interviews with team members and by document analysis , following the suggestion of Singer (2011 ), for an ethnographic approach including a triangulation of information sources. The focus of the material collected is based on identity, cultural and biographical factors that led these journalists to learn the techniques of JGD and act professionally in this specialty.

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Research: “Development Efforts to Promote Investigative Reporting: A Preliminary Assessment of Centers in Azerbaijan, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Bosnia”

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Over the past decade the international development community, from the World Bank to USAID, has come to regard investigative journalism as a silver bullet to fire at corruption and public apathy in its fight for good governance in emerging democracies. Internationally, governments spend more though media development than do private media on investigative reporting. This has contributed to the emergence of more than 100 investigative centers around the world, according to Center for International Media Assistance reports on global trends in investigative reporting. But while the goals of these centers are similarly lofty – reduce corruption, empower citizens, increase transparency, improve government accountability — results are mixed.
This paper will compare and contrast the evolution of four centers: The Center for Investigative Reporting in Bosnia-Herzegovina, The Caucasus Media Investigations Center in Azerbaijan, The Journalism Training and Research Initiative in Bangladesh and the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism in Jordan. Two of these are thriving; two have stumbled. We will explore the organizational, economic, political, and social environment of each

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Research: “Toward Construction of New Paradigms in Teaching Journalism in Mexico” (Spanish)

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In the last decade, Mexico has become one of the most difficult parts of the continent to be a journalist. Apart from the huge amount of violence against journalists, there is also job insecurity linked to a deep stagnation of investigative methods and tools in journalism schools. While student enrollment in the journalism schools is going down, and some universities close their journalism schools, many experienced journalists have benefited from an agreement of the Ministry of Education that allows the extemporaneous qualification through an exam; and the training demand has led to the opening of new Master’s programs in journalism.

This work intends to show, from a general analysis of the gaps, challenges and opportunities for journalism schools, a proposal for incorporating new content in journalism education to strengthen the technological capabilities of their graduates.

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Research: “The Relationship (im)possible: Access to Public Information As a Tool of Investigative Journalism in Mexico” (Spanish)

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The access to public information has become an important tool for investigative journalism. In Mexico, the law that guarantees access to public documents is ten years old and has been recognized as a pioneer law in the world. However, neither the progress on transparency and accountability in the country, nor the journalism projects using institutional resources appear to have met the expectations but, in fact, may actually reflect a setback.

Given this view, this paper analyzes the two forces that have been combined in the Mexican context. On the one hand, the current conditions affecting investigative journalism in Mexico, both in their development and publication, in its social significance. And on the other hand, the structural features that have impacted positively and negatively on transparency and accountability. This combination allows a broad view of the current situation: from the power of corruption and impunity in a country, to the training deficiencies of the journalists and the information portrayed in the media.

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Research: “Talking to an API: An Explanatory Study on Social TV” (Portuguese)

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This paper discusses how the use of customized access to information stored on social media platforms through the phenomenon of using social networks in parallel to consumption of TV software tools, constitutes what some authors call the “backchannel”, a secondary space of content production and discussion of the programs being watched synchronously to the issue, which looks similar to what is known in journalism as the organizing forces of criteria for newsworthiness. It explorers the techniques of data mining by the custom tool Social Tracker, developed in Python, to collect data on the problem, considering that, due to the large amount of information generated in this environment, it is increasingly difficult to do this manually.

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Research: “The Concept of Ethics and the Production of Journalism in Technological Times” (Portuguese)

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Technology is an ally for investigative reporting during procedures of verifying information. But the use of technology raises discussions about the ethical dimension of these procedures . Take, for example, the last update of the Code of Ethics of the Brazilian Journalists, which occurred in 2007 and was motivated by the specific discussion on the use of hidden cameras as an artifact in journalistic investigation. Could the use of new technologies in the production process of journalism influence the concept of ethics of journalists? To try to answer this question, we interviewed 15 professional journalists operating in the labor market of Fortaleza.