In 2001 free speech advocates demonstrated in Germany against Gazprom, a major Russian energy concern, when it took over a Russian TV company. Gazprom is partly owned by a German firm. Photo by … Read more
Romanian businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vintu has a simple strategy for dealing with journalists: “I don’t want to do any business with them,” he said. “I just want to buy them out.” Photo by … Read more
Let’s begin by looking at a typical Romanian media experience: A multinational gold mining company, Rosia Montana Gold Corporation, initially established by a controversial Romanian who has had drug convictions, tries for years to start a mining project in Romania … Read more
‘I knew we’d get a backlash for our reporting, which was far more aggressive than most small-town papers are willing to stomach. But the news media’s role as watchdog is vital in communities with a long-standing culture of corruption.’ Read more
2010 has been a violent year for journalists in Mexico in terms of murders and attacks. RELATED ARTICLE “The Mexican Press: At the Crossroads of Violence” – Elia Baltazar and Daniela PastranaA report by the … Read more
In her introduction to a book about investigative journalism in China, Ying Chan traces the progress and setbacks of news reporting under Communist rule, a history that has actually seen some hard-hitting stories published … Read more
On January 5, China’s state-run news agency Xinhua reported on the annual meeting of the media propaganda ministers. A few weeks later, China Media Project editor David Bandurski wrote on the project’s website about the significance of the fact … Read more
RELATED ARTICLE “An Idea Born Out of Necessity—And It Works!” – Henrik KaufholzThe Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC), which now attracts more than 500 journalists from more than 50 … Read more
Germany’s Duke of Brunswick was an overweight, autocratic paranoiac who was kicked out of his fiefdom by a peasant uprising. RELATED ARTICLE “Libel Laws Pose Obstacles to Ukraine’s Investigative Journalists” – Vlad LavrovA statement like that … Read more
