“There have been important and supporting comments every time we publish a special feature story in our website. Feedback so far on the initiative has been quite good. There is no print edition, so all the stories are published on the website. The director monitors – very closely – the progress of each story.”
#Idl reporteros update
Some of the themes require additional support of a colleague, especially when there is a need to update promptly. In January 2010 the whole team was completed and now they have four reporters/writers, an administrative assistant, an IT assistant and the director.Īccording to Fowks, “each reporter works on two or three stories at once. IDL-Reporteros started in October 2009 with a team of two and it is backed financially by the Open Society Institute, a foundation that promotes democracy and human rights-supporting initiatives that help shaping public policies and fight corruption and rights abuses.
Others just do not want to make politicians and companies accountable. Investigating corruption takes a lot of time and some amount of resources: most newsrooms decide not to invest on it, some lack staff and resources. Even though polls demonstrate that there is a massive rejection of politicians, news media do not necessarily follow, investigate and report about corruption. Why does it take an independent enterprise to do it? Has mainstream media pulled itself out of the game? As global investments increase – and as state corruption climbs to higher levels in Peru (in concessions, mining, energy and public infrastructure) – there is an urgent need to dig deeper. In Peru – as in most Latin American countries – newspapers publish less investigative stories every day and the investigative teams decline or vanish. The audience is still expecting investigative journalism stories today, the role of the press as a watchdog has not disappeared yet. Jacqueline Fowks is part of this team and she explained to .uk why projects like this are so important. Peru is a democracy with a high level of corruption, and Gorriti set out to put journalism at citizens’ disposal and make the powerful accountable. Gustavo Gorriti is an experienced Peruvian journalist who decided to establish an independent team of investigative journalists, with a mission to “ report, investigate, uncover and publish the events and subjects that hurt the rights, property and the destiny of people“. Independent investigative reporting projects seem to be on the rise, especially in developing nations.
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