Alfred Friendly/TRACE Fellow Jody García was part of a team that won Latin America’s most prestigious journalism prize for their project investigating and analyzing the events before, during and after an orphanage fire that killed 41 girls in Guatemala City. ...
When Issac Imaka was a child living in Uganda’s Busoga region, his mother called him “the “village journalist” and other adults called him “the quick one.” “I started stationing myself at the village court to listen to cases of which ...
When Kamala Harris came to Guatemala City in June of last year, Jody García covered the story — particularly the vice president’s comments on corruption and migration — for a small monthly magazine called La Cuerda. With Guatemala’s President Alejandro ...
Members of the Class of 2022 completed their fellowship in Washington, D.C., with a final training session and a ceremonial dinner, where they received certificates for completing the program. At the Missouri School of Journalism offices in the National Press ...
Ten members of the 2022 class of Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellows learned the latest tools and techniques for innovative journalism at the Investigative Reporters and Editors annual training conference in Denver. The IRE conference in June brought together more than ...
“Hi, I’m Jody García, a journalist from Guatemala, currently working for Plaza Pública and as a stringer for The New York Times. I’m part of the Alfred Friendly Fellowship Program, sponsored by the University of Missouri School of Journalism. As ...
After training at the Missouri School of Journalism, the Alfred Friendly fellowship Class of 2022 produced a range of incisive stories during their first month in host newsrooms. Somesh Jha and Parth Nikhil are reporters from India and fellows from ...
By Anastasia Valeeva, TRACE Investigative Reporting Fellow 2022 The annual Global Investigative Journalism Conference took place the first week of November, but for the first time the world’s largest gathering of investigative journalists was online rather than in-person. The Global ...
Mumbai, India Organized Crime and Corruption Project Fellow Parth, 30, is an independent reporter based in Mumbai who primarily writes on rural India and sociopolitical topics. He went to work for The Los Angeles Times after training at the Missouri ...
Guatemala City, Guatemala TRACE Foundation Fellow García, 28, began reporting in January for Plaza Pública in Guatemala after working for a news magazine in her home country. The Global Investigative Journalism Network describes Plaza Pública as “a news laboratory with ...
