Using Comics, Music, and Theater to Bring Investigative Journalism to New Audiences
Cenzolovka 16.11.2021 | Banjo Damilola
Convoca, a digital investigative platform based in Peru, wanted to show how people poisoned by lead released from heavy industry were also struggling with COVID-19.
Their chosen medium: comics. Milagros Salazar Herrera, the director and founder of Convoca, a GIJN-member, said the team chose an interactive comic to tell the story because “that could help citizens understand a complex reality.” “Beyond political preference, as investigative journalists we wanted to draw attention to people’s health situation,” she said at the 12th Global Investigative Journalism Conference (#GIJC21). “Therefore, exploring an innovative format
