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  "id": "1999-may-mexico-and-beyond",
  "slug": "1999-may-mexico-and-beyond",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1999-may-mexico-and-beyond.html",
  "year": 1999,
  "month": "May",
  "monthNum": 5,
  "headline": "Mexico and beyond",
  "kicker": "CAR REPORT FROM LATIN AMERICA",
  "author_name": "Pedro Enrique Armendares",
  "author_title": "Co-Founder",
  "affiliation": "Periodistas de Investigación",
  "summary": "Periodistas de Investigación is working to bring computer-assisted reporting and investigative journalism techniques to Mexico and other Latin American countries to improve public accountability.",
  "keywords": [
    "Latin America",
    "training",
    "investigative journalism"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Journalism & Newsroom",
    "Technology"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "Internet",
    "spreadsheet"
  ],
  "full_text": "Training Mexican journalists in the methods of investigative reporting has been the purpose of Periodistas de Investigación for almost three years now. PI was the brainchild of IRE members from both sides of the border and it extends IRE's programs, such as workshops on computer-assisted reporting, to Mexico thanks to a grant from the McCormick Tribune Foundation.\n\nIn September 1996 Lise Olsen and I opened PI's office in Mexico City. Lise came out of the United States with many years of experience in investigative journalism and CAR. She had also taught CAR workshops for IRE. I began my work in radio and television, later moving to the Mexico City daily La Jornada, where I covered special assignments for seven years.\n\nThe last decade has been an exciting time for investigative journalism in",
  "provenance": {
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    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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