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Investigations Around the World
By Simona Raetz | September 28, 2011, 5:33 pm
In this week’s round-up: In Chile, telephone surveillance by police is invading the privacy of ordinary citizens; In Iraq, recruiters for extremist organizations increasingly target poor women to carry out suicide missions; and in the U.S. , Florida school officials redirected millions of federal stimulus dollars – meant to improve poor-performing schools -- to delaying layoffs and budget cuts. Read More
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Investigations Around the World
By Simona Raetz | August 25, 2011, 4:46 pm
In this week’s round-up: One of the world’s largest diamond mines, in Zimbabwe, is also a torture camp; in Colombia, people close the National Narcotics Agency are found in possession of confiscated goods from drug lords and the mafia; and western-made computer spy equipment is legally exported to authoritarian countries who use it to monitor human rights activists. Read More
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New ICIJ Members
By Simona Raetz | August 15, 2011, 2:32 pm
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has added 15 new reporters to its roster of more than 100 journalists in 50 countries. Read More
Brigitte Alfter, Denmark, is a freelance journalist based in Copenhagen who specializes in European affairs. As a former Brussels correspondent for the Danish daily Information (2004-2008), Alfter has particular expertise in the use of freedom of information legislation. She is a member of the team that successfully sought data regarding the € 50-billion European farm subsidy program and is also a co-founder of www.farmsubsidy.org. Her reporting continues to track the pharmaceutical lobby in Brussels, among other industries.
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Alfter is a co-founder of Wobbing Europe, which supports journalists in using freedom of information laws, as well as Scoop, a Danish project that works with journalists in southeastern and eastern Europe. She is the founding director of the European Fund for Investigative Journalism, chairperson of the Danish Association for Investigative Journalism’s international committee, and a current board member of Netzwerk Recherche, the German association for investigative journalism. In 2006, Alfter’s reporting alongside Danish colleague Nils Mulvad was nominated for the Cavling, Denmark’s highest journalism award. U.S. Investigative Reporters and Editors recognized Alfter as a joint recipient of the Freedom of Information Award in 2007, and in 2011 along with her colleagues of ICIJ she was on the winning team for the Tom Renner Award and the Oversea Press Club of America Award for her work on
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