ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the state of investigative journalism in Latin America. It focuses on four major trends: the rise of collaborative forms of regional and global reporting, the consolidation of vibrant digital news sites that scrutinise political and economic power in relation to a range of social issues, the use of data journalism techniques, and the rise of fact checkers to debunk misinformation in the region. Investigative journalism was hamstrung by powerful political and economic forces, both at the level of the state and media corporations more interested in pursuing narrow industrial interests than in truth-telling. Collaborative journalism is “a cooperative arrangement between two or more news and information organisations, which aims to supplement each organisation’s resources and maximize the impact of the content produced”.
