LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center

We’re seeing impacts of the climate crisis across Latin America, from the world’s largest tropical rainforest –the Amazon– to the Paraná River Basin that creeps into Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.

However, for journalists, knowing where and how to find data that can tell the story of those impacts is often difficult. A recent roundtable, “

The beginning of 2025 was very difficult for Santiago Arcos. The Ecuadoran freelance photojournalist spent the last night of 2024 thinking about the horror of the story he had covered that day.

The assignment from Reuters had been to capture images of the arraignment hearing for a group of military personnel accused in the disappearance of brothers ...

Last year, Brazil hosted the United Nations climate conference. This year, as voters prepare to head to the polls in October, many are counting on candidates to confront the mounting global climate threats. And meanwhile, communities across the country are bracing for a powerful 

Over the past 20 years, Brazil’s highest court, the Supreme Federal Court, has gone from a supporting role to a leading actor in the country’s political arena. With this shift, reporters also had to reinvent themselves. One of the journalists who has best reported on this transition is Felipe Recondo.

A graduate of the University of Brasília, Recondo began his career a...

Members of Radio 8 de Octubre—a community media outlet in Costa Rica focused on covering social grievances and defense of human rights—began to notice a troubling pattern in other Central American countries a few years ago. Community media outlets and organizations dedicated to territorial defense in