Journalism Matters
500 news organizations mark World News Day by demonstrating the power of journalism to make a difference. Take a look at the following reports and features that are making an impact in an increasingly complex and uncertain world:
The Globe and Mail: Nunavut admits to large tuberculosis outbreak in Pangnirtung months later
Pangnirtung, a small hamlet on Baffin Island, is grappling with the largest tuberculosis outbreak in Nunavut since 2017, according to data the territorial government released on Thursday after refusing for months to reveal the extent of the disease’s spread.
VnExpress: Survivors recall do or die experiences after karaoke parlor fire
“Either jump or die,” Phuc told himself on turning around to see a blaze sweeping through the glass window of the restroom he was standing inside. From the ventilator window of the restroom, he tried to locate the metal roof of the house next door and jumped down. That decision saved his life.
Rádio Gaúcha Zero Hora: Unfinished schools: how can the problem be avoided?
Transparência Brasil carried out a study on abandoned Ministry of Education works and concluded that there were many failures in the Proinfância program.
The Daily Star: How did a bike accident become an extortion case?
A simple motorbike accident by a teenage boy in the capital’s Mirpur has been turned into an extortion case against eight school and college students for reasons the victim, his family and witnesses cannot explain.
Rádio Gaúcha Zero Hora: Unfinished daycare centers: what families who have nowhere to leave their children have to say
Just over half of the 1,800 daycare centers provided for in the federal government’s Proinfância program in Rio Grande do Sul were completed after 10 years.
National Post: Exclusive study reveals increasing use of publication bans in Canada
An investigation of discretionary publication bans requested during the past two years across four Canadian provinces shows a 25 per cent increase from one year to the next.
The Daily Star: Where do the ‘disappeared’ disappear to?
“How are our loved ones? Are they being tortured? Are they alive?” These questions haunt the family members of the victims of enforced disappearance as they spend agonising weeks, months and years, holding out hope against all odds. On condition of anonymity, five such survivors spoke to The Daily Star (Bangladesh) to answer the questions most pertinently asked by their loved ones.
Rádio Gaúcha Zero Hora: Lawsuits over unfinished schools filed in nine states
The problem of the works suspended by construction company MVC goes far beyond the Rio Grande do Sul territory. Today, there are 9,700 projects for children’s schools and sports fields unfinished or paralyzed in Brazil. Of these, 1,200 are from MVC, according to an audit by the Federal Audit Court (TCU).
The Globe and Mail: In Nunavut, medical staff saw signs of a devastating TB outbreak. The government didn’t
A Globe investigation found nurses at Pangnirtung’s understaffed health centre were begging for help from the territorial government in the summer of 2021 as TB spread and officials held off on publicly declaring a crisis.
Rádio Gaúcha Zero Hora: Just over half of the 1,800 daycare centers of the federal Proinfância program in Rio Grande do Sul were completed
Companies that abandoned the works blame the lack of federal funds for the interruption in the construction of hundreds of centers promised for Rio Grande do Sul.
Süddeutsche Zeitung: The Uber Files
Who lobbied for Uber in Germany? How did the company go about it in other European countries? And how successful was it?
The Globe and Mail: Inuit group presses Nunavut government for transparency on tuberculosis
The president of a major Inuit organization has reiterated her call for transparency after The Globe and Mail published an investigation of a tuberculosis outbreak in Pangnirtung, a hamlet of about 1,500 people on Baffin Island.