Pedro Enrique Armendares has joined Periodistas de Investigacion - Investigative Reporters and Editors in Mexico as training director, effective Sept. 1. Through the project, made possible by a $540,000 grant from the McCormick Tribune Foundation, IRE and NICAR hope to offer low-cost or free training in newsrooms and at seminars across Mexico. Armendares' duties will include developing training programs in computer-assisted and investigative reporting.
Armendares has worked since 1989 as an investigative/special projects reporter at La Jornada, a major Mexico daily. He will join Lise Olsen, managing director of Periodistas de Investigacion, in the Mexico City office.