Rosemary Arm a Op Resent at Ion

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The daunting challenges

Salaries that are low and often intermittent

No resources, even notebooks and phone minutes

Poor training and low professionalism

Owners who suffer from all of the above and may be

dirty as well

A public that expects, is resigned to, or apathetic aboutcorruption


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And the more daunting

A government that limits access to documents,

meetings and officials who will talk to the public

A government that will fine, harass, jail or bankrupt

you for stories it doesnt like

Targets bold enough to threaten, hurt or kill you


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Its the kind of journalism that has a

lot of martyrs.__Joel Simon, executive director Committee to Protect

Journalists


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Since MayThree radio commentatorskilled in Philippines

South African journalistarrested

Mexican slaughter continues

Iran takes lead from China injournalists jailed


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Newspaper to drug cartels:We don't want any more dead. We don't want any more injured or

any more threats. It is impossible to exercise our function in these

conditions. Indicate to us, therefore, what you expect of us as a news

outlet. Front-page editorial in El Diario


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Stateretaliation*South Africa

*Brazil

*Afghanistan

*Benin


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Formula for reducing corruption:Transparent government

Media that reports on corruption

Citizens who care and understand

Citizens with mechanisms (elections and lawsuits) to punish officials


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Show how you will end

corruption in three years

Heller: Impossible to know

Kaplan: Doomed to fail

Kaufman: Implies much less impact


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Fighting the fight*Find the right topic

*Use technology

*Team with NGOs


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The Right

StorySex, food, sports, gossip, hypocrisy


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Fighting

Build teams and networks to share resources, cross train, inspire and

support


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Redefine successYou cant change what you dont know about

Demonstrate to citizens their own responsibility

for corruption


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Redefining

Make a long-lasting record of wrong-doing

Connect corruption with the real consequences

Prevent corruption or make it harder


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One example of how it works


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Aremuckrakers

born or bred?You can no more teach

someone to be an investigativereporter who can covercorruption over a weekend thanyou can teach someone topractice constitutional law. Drew Sullivan


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Rethink training

Train the right people

Train them for a long time

Train them outside a classroom

Work with journalism schools


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Rethinking training

Teach budgets, cross-cultural investigation, forensic

accounting

Teach interviewing and writing

But first all the basics


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Ideal training:How to follow companies across borders, investigate a website,background an individual, find and use business databases, writecompellingly and logically (which is not cultural) and stay safe doing it


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Technology

Collaborative software and Investigative Dashboard

Model may make reporting easier

Cell-phones, social media, Internet can make sourcing

and citizen participation easier when no civil society

Google Translate makes international readership easier

YouTube, crowdsourcing, citizen journalism make

crusading easy


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Editors are under-

valuedInternational collaboration should be regarded in a newlight

Long-term success comes from holding reporters tostandards they think are too high


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ENOUGH!

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