Visits to Bangla investigative journalism website up 80%
A website in Bangla, set up to help support, train, and connect investigative journalists, has attracted more than 100,000 page views in 12 months, indicating a growing demand for best-practice help, resources, and guidance. David Brewer, founder and editor of Media Helping Media reports. When Miraj Ahmed Chowdhury attended a conference organised by the Global […]
Fact checking takes off in Bangladesh
Last year, Qadaruddin Shishir was a regular journalist at Jamuna Television in Dhaka. Today he is a fact-checkerand one of two co-founders of BD FactCheck. He also works for Boom Bangladesh, which is a partner of Facebook in third-party fact checking. “When we started BD FactCheck we were novices in the field of battling misinformation. […]
When responsibility becomes an issue
Between 80 and 90 percent of all work in Bangladesh is carried out in informal sectors. It creates challenges for investigative journalism on the labor market, but also opportunities. A large part of Bangladesh’s poor population work in informal sectors. It can be anything from cleaning and household work in someone’s home, day labourers in […]
Investigation: Corruption eradicates access to new cultivation methods for small farmers
Watch this episode where the team on the investigative show Onushudan shows how one low level official have the whole department in his hand. The corruption eradicates access to research and new cultivation methods for small farmers which don’t get the opportunity to increase their harvest or produce healthier crops. His department is responsible for […]
The long road to a hypothesis
How to write your hypothesis before pitching your investigative story to your editor? Or – in this case – to your lecturer? On my way back to Dhaka airport, summarizing three days of training a group of female Bangladeshi journalists in investigative reporting, that’s the question in my head. I introduced the group to the […]
Bangla Vision: The Fishermen in Bangladesh
Bangla Vision has investigated an unbearable situation the fishermen and their families in Bangladesh face on a daily basis. It is an investigation that has inspired other reporters to do similar stories. More importantly, it has made the social welfare minister promise to prioritize the widows who’s not getting the essential allowance when fishermen go […]
Maasranga TV – the importance of looking good
When the elephant passed by on the other side of the highway in the Dhaka rush hour, it really brought home to me the wonderful imagery that abounds in Bangladesh. With its handler riding high, it strode along the slow lane – in the wrong direction, of course – as the city’s tide of battered […]
Prothom Alo: Bribes by the ‘kg’ in Titas Gas
”The thieves in Titas are always stealing. But they haven’t been caught red-handed so we are unable to do anything.” Said the energy and mineral resources secretary of the Anti-Corruption Commission. Follow Prothom Alo’s investigation on the bribe allegations of Titas, a Bangladeshi distribution company of the country’s Oil, Gas and Minerals Resources Corporation. The […]
Maasranga: Business in the name of education
The investigative show Onushudan continues their investigation of private universities. In this episode we follow the team and their search for answers on how it is possible to make a fortune by running a non-profit university. Universities in Bangladesh are legally obliged to be non-profit. However, the team’s investigation in financial statements of 20 universities […]
Maasranga: Certificates for sale!
Watch this intriguing episode where the team on the investigative show Onushudan uncovers a syndicate who runs deep in the system of colleges in Dhaka. The syndicate makes it easy for those who with little effort want to achieve the best result in the higher secondary school certificate examination. During the past 10 years, 150 […]