Journalism

In partnership with the American University of Beirut | Global Engagement Initiative, CGC Amman's series explores the challenges encountered during the aftermath by journalists, medics, aid workers, and local communities in conflict zones.

In the same year that India became independent, how did a group of six nuns from Kentucky arrive in Bihar to establish a medical practice.

In this series, we address the development of journalism amid political, social, and technological developments in the world.

Currently the senior anchor at CNN Chile, Matamala is the author of six books about political and economic power in Chile.

Author and activist Todd Gitlin is chair of the Columbia University School of Journalism's Ph.D. program in Communications.

Two Columbia alumni, both of them renowned local journalists, teamed-up with a third colleague to create the first Chilean news chatbot called Labot. This computer program interacts with her followers mostly through mobile phones, using two platforms -- Facebook Messenger and Telegram.

The Santiago Center in conjunction with Columbia University’s School of Journalism invites journalists working in Chile to apply to a fellowship that will cover tuition and travel expenses to participate in a course on Investigative Journalism for Latin America held in collaboration with the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for New Ibero-American Journalism – FNPI.

The Panama Papers and the report “Vacations in no Man’s Sea” were portrayed as two examples of serious, thorough and uncompromising investigate reporting, as well as of good instances of joint-collaboration between media outlets and journalism schools, in an event featuring Ernest Sotomayor, Dean of Student Affairs & Director of Latin American Initiatives at Columbia School of Journalism.

On November 19, Chile will hold Presidential and Congressional elections. In early July, two of the three main political coalitions, the center-right alliance Chile Vamos and the leftist partnershipFrente Amplio, held primaries to select their presidential candidates, a process in which former President Sebastián Piñera and journalist Beatriz Sánchez were elected, respectively.