InquireFirst to hold international journalism symposiums in 2017 InquireFirst Executive Director S. Lynne Walker organizes and instructs symposiums on investigative reporting and safety protocols for journalists in Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. The symposiums are presented in Spanish. Among the topics covered: Developing an Investigative News Story: Tools and Techniques for Gaining … Read more
InquireFirst to hold inaugural journalism symposium in November SAN DIEGO – Executive Director S. Lynne Walker will conduct InquireFirst’s inaugural investigative journalism symposium Nov. 14-18 in San Diego. At least 20 Latin American journalists will attend the symposium titled “Investigative Journalism in the Digital Age: Using Technology to Tell Our Stories.” Print, radio, television and … Read more
Jennifer Lu is a graduate student studying data and investigative reporting at the Missouri School of Journalism. A fan of number-crunching and analysis, she also enjoys photography and doodling. Before realizing she could apply her curiosity to the fourth estate, she earned a master’s degree in biochemistry from Brandeis University and did research in medical and bio-engineering laboratories.
Workshop on high-risk reporting held in Mexican border city of Nogales
Nogales001 NOGALES, Mexico – This is a city of commerce, a bustling town leaning into the U.S.-Mexico border where billions of dollars of tomatoes and squash and peppers are shipped into the United States every year along with shiny Ford Fusions, computer electronics and parts for the aerospace industry.
Underneath this sunbaked city, another kind of product is crossing into the United States. Through a spider web of tunnels bored into a vast drainage system that connects Nogales, Mexico, to Nogales, Arizona, billions of dollars of marijuana and other drugs are being shipped to the U.S. market.
CULIACAN, México — Journalists are under siege in the northern Mexico state of Sinaloa, where notorious drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera was captured in January after a fierce gun battle with soldiers. Grenades have been hurled at El Debate, Culiacán’s largest-circulation newspaper. Gunmen have opened fire with AK-47s on the reception desk of … Read more
GUATEMALA CITY — InquireFirst Executive Director Lynne Walker instructed a week-long series of journalism training symposiums in Guatemala in February — the first under our organization’s international journalism symposium program. Reporters, editors, media owners and university students in Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango and Guatemala City attended the symposiums, which focused on new techniques for investigative journalism. The … Read more
The comic delivered a bracing diatribe on what’s wrong with American journalism. A lot, it turns out.
Seven Days
At 16, Kris Lindblad broke his back in an accident. While lying in bed with not much else to do, he taught himself to draw, mostly from Marvel comics. Two years later he began work at his hometown paper, The Daily Times Advocate in Escondido, Calif., where he became a photographer and, eventually, the art director. In 1981 he joined The San Diego Tribune and stayed with the company for almost 25 years, working as a graphics editor, illustrator and design editor.