Data 2:
Information about Institutions Involved in the Collaborative Projects
Animal Político
Animal Político is part of the Mexican media group Editorial Animal.
Animal Político is a digitally native media that brings together journalists, designers, programmers and video editors to create content with rigor, precision and designed to serve citizens. It is a media outlet that puts citizens at the center, prioritizing dialogue with them and coverage of issues that affect them such as corruption, insecurity, inequality in the country, gender violence and discrimination. Funding: 15% from subscriptions, 20% from publicity, 20% from donations, 20% from training, 25% commercial content.
(Information translated from Spanish.) Source: https://www.animalpolitico.com/quienes-somos
BuzzFeed News
BuzzFeed News began as a division of BuzzFeed in December 2011 in the U.S. In April, 2023, BuzzFeed announced it would shut down BuzzFeed News, which has not produced new content since May 5, 2023. BuzzFeed's funding is based on investments, and it also generates revenue through advertising.
According to its website, "Born on the internet in 2006, BuzzFeed, Inc. is committed to making it better: providing trusted, quality, brand-safe news and entertainment to hundreds of millions of people; making content on the internet more inclusive, empathetic, and creative; and inspiring our audience to live better lives."
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/about
El Faro
El Faro was founded in 1998 in San Salvador as the first native internet newspaper in Latin America. Since its inception in 1998, El Faro has had a Central American vocation and has become a regional benchmark for independent, transparent and reliable journalism that covers corruption, organized crime, migration, culture, inequality, impunity and Human Rights, both by monitoring state agencies and the different economic and social spheres of the region. In April 2023, El Faro moved its legal and administrative operations to Costa Rica due to harassment by the Nayib Bukele administration in El Salvador.
El Faro is a non-profit foundation currently registered in Costa Rica under the name Fundación Periódica. International cooperation projects are El Faro's main source of funding (22%). It also gains funding from sales of content that includes alliances with international media, syndication of its reports and chronicles or royalties for the production of books or documentaries (10%), events (5%), donations and memberships (5%), and income from commercial sources (4%).
Sources: https://elfaro.net/es/info/acerca_de_elfaro, https://elfaro.net/es/202304/columnas/26804/el-faro-se-cambia-de-casa
Forbidden Stories
Forbidden Stories is a nonprofit organization headquartered in France and founded in 2017. It builds on the support from the public and grants from philanthropic foundations. Forbidden Stories also receives support from other nonprofits and companies, who provide legal support or to reinforce digital security.
According to its website, "Our nonprofit organization, unique in the world, protects the work of threatened journalists and pursues the investigations of reporters who have been silenced. In the face of increasingly organized enemies of the press, we have made collaboration our modus operandi. Because we are stronger together, we activate our international network of journalists to take up these forbidden investigations and disseminate them. We want to send out a clear message: killing a reporter will always be counter-productive.."
Source: https://forbiddenstories.org/about-us/mission/our-mission/
Frontline PBS
FRONTLINE was founded in 1983. It is produced by the WGBH Educational Foundation and based in Boston, Mass. WGBH is a public media organization which serves as the largest producer of PBS content for TV and the web. WGBH and its programs, including FRONTLINE, are supported by a broad mix of funding sources, including more than 150,000 individuals, along with foundations, corporations and the federal government.
According to its website, "FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world. We tell the stories others can't or won't — from the rise of the NSA's domestic surveillance dragnet, to the hidden history of the NFL and concussions, to the secret reality of rape on the job for immigrant women."
Sources: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/about-us/our-funders/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/about-us/
InSight Crime
InSight Crime is a non-profit entity which has received funding from Open Society Foundations, American University's Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, and Sweden's government agency SIDA.
According to its website, "InSight Crime is a think tank and media organization that seeks to deepen and inform the debate about organized crime and citizen security in the Americas by providing regular reporting, analysis, data, investigation, and policy suggestions on how to tackle the multiple challenges they present. It does this by fusing investigative journalism with academic rigor, building its analysis from extensive ground research, which includes speaking to all the actors, legal and illegal."
Sources: https://insightcrime.org/about-us/, https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/insight-crime-bias/
The Intercept
Founded in the U.S. in 2014. The Intercept is a non-profit organization which relies on donations from our readers and listeners as a key funding source for our journalism.
According to its website,"At The Intercept, we investigate powerful individuals and institutions to expose corruption and injustice. We see journalism as an instrument of civic action. We're here to change the world, not just describe it. The Intercept aspires to drive meaningful change by empowering the public with information to demand a better world from institutions and leaders. We believe rigorous and courageous journalism plays a vital role in protecting human rights, safeguarding freedoms, checking the influence of money and power, and moving society toward a just future."
Source: https://theintercept.com/about/
International Consortium for Investigative Journalists, ICIJ
The International Consortium for Investigative Journalists, ICIJ, was founded in 1997 as a project of the Center for Public Integrity. ICIJ spun off from the Center and became a fully independent news organization in early 2017. In July 2017, ICIJ was granted nonprofit status. ICIJ is currently supported by governments, foundations, and individuals.
According to its website, "The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists tells stories that punch through the noise, showing how the world really works, triggering positive change. We are driven by the belief that citizens have the right to be better informed, that access to independently-sourced facts is not only essential for democracy but is also a fundamental human right.... ICIJ has directed the largest cross-border reporting initiatives in history, convincing reporters across the globe to set aside traditional rivalries to uncover corruption, abuses of power and grave harms inflicted on the world's most vulnerable people."
Sources: https://www.icij.org/about/corporate/, https://www.icij.org/about/
LightHouse Reports
According to its website, "Lighthouse Reports pioneers collaborative journalism and works with the world's leading media to deliver deeply reported, public interest investigations. Our core areas of interest are migration, climate, conflict and corruption. We build newsrooms around topics and channel editors, tools and resources to working journalists with the results reaching the public on existing platforms. We have co-published series and investigations that have reached more than 30m people across 100 media partners. We work across media formats from television and documentary to news and radio, podcasts, print and online."
Sources: https://www.lighthousereports.com/about/, https://www.lighthousereports.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/LR_Annual_Report_2023_2706.pdf
Mexicanos contra la Corrupción
A non-profit organization based in Mexico, mainly financed through national and international donations.
According to its website, Mexicanos contra la Corrupción is committed to the consolidation of the Rule of Law in Mexico through a comprehensive agenda dedicated to preventing, denouncing, punishing and eradicating systemic corruption and impunity that prevail in the public and private systems of our country.
(Translated from Spanish.) Source: https://contralacorrupcion.mx/quienes-somos/
NBC News
NBC is part of NBC Universal News Group, which is owned by Comcast Corporation. Comcast Corporation is publicly traded. Source: https://www.nbcuniversal.com/about
The New York Times
Founded in 1851. It is owned by The New York Times Company. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., whose family has controlled the paper since 1896, is both the paper's publisher and the company's chairman.
According to its website, "We seek the truth and help people understand the world. This mission is rooted in our belief that great journalism has the power to make each reader's life richer and more fulfilling, and all of society stronger and more just."
Sources: https://www.nytco.com/investors/faqs/, https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/new-york-times
elPeriódico
Newspaper and website shut down since May 2023.
elPeriódico was founded in Guatemala in 1996 by the donations of 125 citizens who supported its stand on press freedom. One year later, it was purchased by the owners of Prensa Libre. elPeriódico was one of the media outlets that for years dismantled and investigated several governments.
elPeriódico published its last edition on 15 May, 2023. The newspaper had been worn down by government pressures. Its founder José Rúben Zamora remained in jail since July 2022 under unsubstantiated charges of alleged money laundering, blackmail and influence peddling. Journalists and lawyers of the newspaper have also been arrested. Less than a month after being moved to house arrest, a Guatemalan appeals court ordered journalist José Rubén Zamora back to jail on November 15, 2024.
Sources: Kahn 2023/Reuters Institute, https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/meet-journalists-defying-widening-crackdown-press-freedom-guatemala, Vilchez 2024/Committee to Protect Journalists, https://cpj.org/2024/11/i-will-always-keep-fighting-jose-ruben-zamora-tells-cpj-before-court-orders-him-back-to-jail/
Plaza Pública
Founded by the Rafael Landívar University in Guatemala, Plaza Pública belongs to the Vice-Rectory of Research and Projection and is financed mainly with the university's budget.
According to its website, "Plaza Pública is a media outlet that aims to provide information and ideas in pursuit of a solid, vigorous democracy, with ethics and social justice... Plaza Pública is a laboratory, a work in progress. With a narrative identity based on long, nuanced, deep texts, and increasingly exploring transmedia narratives and precision journalism, we have reached central places and themes that used to go unnoticed in national journalism. Thus, we seek to recount the injustices committed by previously unmentionable powers in the country – such as child labor in sugar – transitional justice, the relations between economy and politics, and human rights."
(Translated from Spanish.) Source: https://www.plazapublica.com.gt/content/quienes-somos
Prensa Comunitaria / Km 169
Prensa Comunitaria was founded in Guatemala by Nelton Rivera and legalized as an alternative press agency on December 20, 2012.
According to its website, it is the audience itself that engages with our medium by contributing as designers, creators, hackers and technology activists, artists, social scientists and activists. At this moment in history, citizens are increasingly clear that their participation is necessary, so this is an alternative for this. This contributes to the democratization of information, communication and society. The focus of our investigations is the subjects, in particular women and indigenous peoples. We show the efforts they make and the threatening situations they go through in their environment.... We are a group of women and men of Mayan origin Q'anjob'al, K'iché ́, Q'eqchi, Pocomchi', Kaqchikel, Chuj and mestizo. We live in different parts of the country and have diverse experiences. ... Hence the notion of the communitarian... The community journalism that we are doing, part of the use of all these theoretical and conceptual tools, is also transmedia journalism, since we tell the stories in different formats and non-traditional production and distribution platforms. We combine art, testimony, journalism and social sciences to grow our audiences and create a more participatory and active community, creator of content and also dissemination.
(Translated from Spanish.) Source: https://prensacomunitaria.org/quienes-somos/
Prensa Libre
The newspaper was founded in Guatemala in 1951 and since 1996, only an online edition is published. It is owned by Prensa Libre, S.A., a for-profit newspaper with the second highest circulation in Guatemala.
According to its website, it brings to all Guatemalans, inside and outside the country, the most important and breaking news about national and international events.
(Translated from Spanish.) Source: https://www.prensalibre.com/
Proceso
Pro Publica
independent, nonprofit newsroom founded in 2007. Pro Publica's work is powered primarily through donations.
According to its website, "We dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust — and we stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account. With a team of more than 150 dedicated journalists, ProPublica covers a range of topics including government and politics, business, criminal justice, the environment, education, health care, immigration, and technology. We focus on stories with the potential to spur real-world impact.... Our staff remains dedicated to carrying forward the important work of exposing corruption, informing the public about complex issues, and using the power of investigative journalism to spur reform."
Source: https://www.propublica.org/about/
Retro Report
Retro Report is an independent, nonprofit news organization that gains funding through donations and partnerships.
According to its website, "Retro Report has produced more than 250 short documentaries and video series in partnership with The New York Times, PBS, the New Yorker, VICE, Scientific American, NBC News, Politico, Time, The Guardian, Univision and others. We combine reliable and compelling journalism with history, civics, and media literacy education."
Source: https://retroreport.org/about/
The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune is a non-profit, member-supported media organization based in Texas. The Tribune is financially supported by a diversified business model that includes our membership program, major donations from individuals and foundations, corporate sponsorships, events, a paid newsletter and other revenue streams.
According to its website, "We envision a Texas where every Texan is empowered with the civic information they need to become full participants in our democracy. We believe that a more engaged, better informed, more civically aware Texas will help bring about a healthier, better educated, more productive, more prosperous and more equitable Texas."
Source: https://www.texastribune.org/about/
Univision News
Univision News belongs to the for-profit media network of Univision owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the largest provider of Spanish-language content in the U.S.
According to its website, "TelevisaUnivision is the world's leading Spanish-language media company. Powered by the largest library of owned Spanish-language content and a prolific production capability, TelevisaUnivision is the top producer of original content in Spanish across news, sports and entertainment verticals.
https://corporate.televisaunivision.com/our-company/
The Washington Post
The mission of The Washington Post is defined in a set of principles written by Eugene Meyer, who bought the newspaper in 1933. The Washington Post is currently owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.
According to its website, " The first mission of a newspaper is to tell the truth as nearly as the truth may be ascertained. The newspaper shall tell ALL the truth so far as it can learn it, concerning the important affairs of America and the world."
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/about-the-post/
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