This is a repost from the website of the Global Investigative Journalism Network. GIJN and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism are organisers of Uncovering Asia: The First Asian Investigative Journalism Conference that starts tomorrow, November 23, 2014, in Manila, Philippines.
Here are interviews with leading investigative journalists, free expression advocates, and one Nobel laureate — from 20 countries in all — talking about the importance of investigative journalism. Many of these people work on the front lines of battles against corruption and for public accountability, in places like Mexico, Myanmar, Pakistan, South Africa, Turkey, and Ukraine.
They offer compelling testimony for the critical role that investigative journalism plays in helping ensure just, open and free societies. Most of these interviews were recorded in October 2014, at the 8th Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics, speaks about why the accountability function of investigative journalism is essential and explains why it needs private support.
Sheila Coronel, academic affairs dean at the Columbia School of Journalism and Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism co-founder, talks about the importance of a watchdog press.
Giannina Segnini, investigative reporter from Costa Rica, describes how her team investigations put two former president under the magnifying glass and why democracy should not be taken for granted.
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