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Investigative Journalism II: Planning an Investigation

Investigative journalism carries great social responsibility and legal risk. It also requires a lot of work. This is why planning is…

Feb 21, 2018

Investigative Journalism II: Planning an Investigation

Feb 21, 2018

Mathew Charles

Investigative Journalism III: Hypothesis-based Inquiry

A hypothesis driven investigation has many advantages. It is usually based on human sources as opposed to mountains of data.

Feb 12, 2018

Investigative Journalism III: Hypothesis-based Inquiry

Feb 12, 2018

Mathew Charles

Investigative Journalism IV: Dealing with Sources

No matter how prepared or how much we refine our methods, much of dealing with sources is down to our behaviour as human beings. As…

Feb 5, 2018

Investigative Journalism IV: Dealing with Sources

Feb 5, 2018

Mathew Charles

Investigative Journalism I: An Introduction

Investigative reporting or “muckraking” as it is sometimes called goes to the heart of journalism’s democratic responsibilities: to…

Jan 29, 2018

Investigative Journalism I: An Introduction

Jan 29, 2018

Mathew Charles

Impunity must be the priority for Mexico after journalists’ murders

Javier Valdez Cardenas, an award-winning journalist and one of Mexico’s best known reporters, was murdered on 15th May. He was shot dead…

Jun 21, 2017

Jun 21, 2017

Mathew Charles

The debate sparked by the Netflix series Narcos is about more than the (mis)representation of…

Narcos has caused quite a stir. In Colombia, many are up in arms that the majority of the programme’s actors are foreign. It is…

Sep 27, 2016

The debate sparked by the Netflix series Narcos is about more than the (mis)representation of…

Sep 27, 2016

Mathew Charles

Filming The Engineer

Access, trauma and violence in El Salvador

Sep 24, 2015

Filming The Engineer

Sep 24, 2015

Mathew Charles

Re-thinking the TV news package

We’ve all noted the formuliac approach to storytelling in our TV news bulletins. If not, then Charlie Brooker’s hilarious and insightful…

Sep 23, 2015

Re-thinking the TV news package

Sep 23, 2015

Mathew Charles

The lonely crusade for Colombian journalists daring to take on the country’s armed actors.

Luis Carlos Cervantes had a passion for journalism that was infectious. I first met him in 2012 and over the past two years he became a…

Aug 2, 2015

The lonely crusade for Colombian journalists daring to take on the country’s armed actors.

Aug 2, 2015

Mathew Charles

The Central American child migrant crisis:

Changes to immigration law won’t stop the violence

Aug 2, 2015

The Central American child migrant crisis:

Aug 2, 2015

Mathew Charles

Mathew Charles

Journalist and academic. Research fellow at the Colombian Observatory of Organized Crime at El Rosario University, Bogotá. Former foreign correspondent.

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