Encuentro Virtual de Periodistas de Investigación -marzo 2013

Estoy encantada ser parte de un encuentro virtual de periodistas de investigación lunes – un webinario organizado por el Centro Knight  para el Periodismo en las Américas http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/es/00-13049-centro-knight-ofrece-webinario-en-espanol-sobre-periodismo-investigativo

Voy a estar hablando de mis técnicas para hacer investigaciones periodísticas y mis fuentes de inspiración. Entre otros, abajo son alguno sitios que entraron en la discusión colectiva.

Sitios web:

Una lista de recursos coleccionado por Lise Olsen, Giannina Segnini y José Roberto de Toledo: http://toledol.com.br/2009/08/18/links-websites-para-ipys-colpin/

Lista de recursos internacionales hecha por Margot Williams de National Public Radio

https://gist.github.com/pallih/3268835

Guías sobre el uso de redes social para periodismo – Fasttrack Media

http://spanish.fastrackmedia.com/documents/

Sitios importantes para cobertura de inmigración y la frontera EU-México

http://liseolsen.blogspot.com/2011/10/tipsheet-for-border-and-immigration.html

Instituto de Prensa y Sociedad tiene un archivo enorme de investigaciones periodísticas. Hay mucha información en su pagina web y por e-mail uno puede conseguir ejemplares de las notas y cuestionarios llenados por periodistas sobre sus técnicas:

http://www.ipys.org/periodismo_investigacion
Lamentablemente, no se puede buscar su archivos en linea, pero cuentan con información sobre todos los ganadores del Premio Latinoamericano de Periodismo de Investigación (la lista de 2012 se encuentra acá:
http://www.transparency.org/news/pressrelease/20121015_periodistas_brasileros_obtienen_el_premio)

Archivos de IRE  notas de investigación y cuestionarios llenado por los periodistas que los escribieron (en ambos casos, hay que comunicarse con la organización por mayor información):

Base de datos de notas: http://www.ire.org/resource-center/stories/

Y de hojas informativas: http://www.ire.org/resource-center/tipsheets/

La biblioteca virtual del proprio Centro Knight para Periodismo en las Américas:

http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/digitallibrary

Libros:
Cobertura Segura por Jorge Luis Sierra, excelente periodista Mexicana
http://www.amazon.com/Cobertura-Segura-Spanish-Edition-ebook/dp/B008PWSGFQ

Algunas de los últimos artículos en español por Lise Olsen

-El Empleo mas mortal en Tejas – los campos petroleros - 2/17/2013

http://lavoztx.com/news/2013/feb/17/el-empleo-mas-mortal-en-texas/

Parte de una 2012 serie sobre problemas con las listas de electores y por purgas de ellas:

- Barrios afroamericanos, más afectados por purgas en listas de votantes

http://lavoztx.com/news/2012/oct/03/barrios-afroamericanos-mas-afectados-por-purgas-en/?page=2

- Purga de lista de electores en  Texas, plagada de errores

http://m.lavoztx.com/news/2012/nov/02/purga-de-lista-de-electores-en-texas-plagada-de-er/

Ultima nota en serie sobre redes del trafico humano  en Houston: http://www.chron.com/spanish/la-voz/article/Artista-de-Houston-envuelto-en-tr-fico-humano-3569695.php

Centro Knight: Entrevista sobre mi investigación de homicidios de estadounidenses en México:

http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/archive/blog/?q=pt-br/node/3118

Peril in the Oil Patch

Here's the first two stories in a continuing series that ran in the Houston Chronicle and the Express News called “Peril in the Oil Patch”

"Workplace deaths drop but not in the oil fields*": http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Workplace-deaths-drop-but-not-in-the-oil-4266141.php

"Eagle Ford Pay is High but the work can be fatal": http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/energy/article/Eagle-Ford-pay-is-high-but-work-can-be-fatal-4285405.php

Related Texas Week TV show - with Rick Casey - here: http://video.klrn.org/video/2337872976

*This piece also appeared on KBTX in Bryan and in the Beaumont Enterprise..

Sex trafficking: the view from H-town

As part of a program called "Crimes Against Humanity: Science, Smugglers and Survivors" Sat. a.m. @ South Texas College of Law  -details here: http://www.hba.org/home-elements/LM2013.pdf … I'll be joining some of Houston's fine legal minds in a discussion how of human trafficking is being detected - and fought in H-town.

Here's a sampling of  trafficking stories I've covered for the Chronicle about
the criminals, their victims and the attorneys and advocates fighting against trafficking:

A series on the regenerative power of a cantina-based trafficking ring run by a man nicknamed "El Gallo" - the rooster.
2008 El Gallo got away...
2011 update: 2011 update on the ring's activities

2012 story about the Cantina crooner - the ex-husband of a trafficker tied to the same group: Cantina Crooner

Details of the largest trafficking rescue in the mainland US - in Houston: the Mondragon case
Mondragon rescue

Why some trafficking victims  - including those rescued in the largest bust  in the mainland U.S. - never got T visas created by the government to help them... The trouble with T-visas

That work is included in this 2012 book: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409439684

A 2012 interview with the State Department's trafficking czar - Luis CdeVaca:
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/U-S-ambassador-fights-slavery-sex-trafficking-3987156.php

How a Harris county attorney who used nuisance laws to fight trafficking businesses was brutally attacked in an assault that remains unsolved.
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Was-attack-on-assistant-Harris-County-attorney-3498895.php

How federal prosecutors are using forfeiture laws to try to help trafficking victims:
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Teenage-victims-of-sex-traffickers-will-get-money-3489677.php

Innovative ways local lawyers have used their skills and civil lawsuits to fight human slavery and the international groups behind it:

http://www.chron.com//news/houston-texas/article/Attorney-helping-human-trafficking-victims-find-1688854.php
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Vietnamese-workers-allege-homeland-exploited-them-1691276.php
http://www.chron.com/business/article/Lawsuit-alleges-India-workers-lured-to-U-S-on-1686876.php

Secrets of CPRIT's cancer-fighting foundation unveiled

The Houston Chronicle obtained financials and minutes from a tiny foundation that was initially created to supplement scientists' government salaries at the state's $3 billion cancer-fighting agency. Records showed the foundation had been losing money for at least two years, as its own administrative, PR and lobbying costs skyrocketed.

Highlights of the story appear here: http://www.chron.com/news/health/article/Connecting-the-dots-4211341.php

Subscribers can read the full text on Houston Chronicle.com
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Cancer-agency-s-foundation-s-outlays-questioned-4208694.php

Who has control over disabled vets assets? Thieves and the bankrupt and gambling addicts, oh my

The Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers' investigation on fraud and theft in a program that oversees the assets of disabled veterans ran in newspapers nationwide on Sunday, including in Houston, San Antonio, San Francisco, Seattle, Albany, Corpus Christi and other cities. Here's a couple of links:


 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/17/MNQ51P1INF.DTL&tsp=1
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/article/Families-wage-bitter-battles-to-save-vets-from-3636849.php

But that story had its roots in an older Houston Chronicle probe of a $2 million fraud involving the assets of about two dozen veterans in Houston. This is an excerpt from the first story and links to the previous stories in this series.

HOUSTON LAWYER, WIFE ACCUSED OF STEALING FROM VETS:
Published in the Houston Chronicle on November 10, 2010
AP version still online: http://www.khou.com/news/Houston-lawyer-wife-accused-of-stealing-from-vets-106895918.html


HOUSTON — When Shirley German couldn't get her son's guardian — an attorney handpicked by the Department of Veterans Affairs — to fork over $250 for Thanksgiving dinner for the disabled U.S. Marine and his family, she sensed something askew.


That man, Joe B. Phillips, a 71-year-old Houston lawyer and former VA employee, now stands accused of stealing more than $2 million from at least 28 Texas veterans and hiding those thefts with faked bank statements, padded expenses and even imaginary accounts verified with forged signatures, according to dozens of civil suits and a 2010 federal court indictment.


Among the Houston victims was German's son, Leland Spencer, 39, a Marine who had been scheduled to be shipped to Iraq in 1991 when he collapsed in a coma and nearly died of a crippling disease at a U.S. military base on Okinawa. "My son paid a price and the rest of the disabled veterans did, too and I'm furious they have to go through something like this," German said.

HOUSTON RIPOFFS OF DISABLED VETS WENT UNDETECTED FOR MORE THAN A DECADE:

LISE OLSE, HOUSTON CHRONICLE Copyright 2012 HOUSTON CHRONICLE. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

By LISE OLSEN, HOUSTON CHRONICLE December 21, 2011 

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Disabled-veterans-left-penniless-in-alleged-2410906.php

FAMILY WANTS ANSWERS ABOUT VETS' MISSING MONEY:

By Lise Olsen and Lindsay Wise, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, January 12, 2012

 http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Family-seek-answers-for-veteran-s-missing-money-2499200.php




DISABLED VETERANS IN TEXAS FLEECED BY VA-APPOINTED MONEY MANAGERS

By Lise Olsen and Lindsay Wise  Monday, May 21, 2012 

 Texas has had twice as many prosecutions of VA-approved fiduciaries as any other state

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Disabled-veterans-in-Texas-fleeced-by-3571559.php