How an Investigative Hub Trained a Generation of Reporters in the US-Mexico Border Region

The Mexico Border Investigative Reporting Hub was established in 2018 to help journalists combat corruption and champion positive change.

Over the five years it was operating, the Border Hub trained 1,300 people in different areas, all aimed at strengthening tools for long-term reporting.

Training sessions covered topics such as data journalism, access to public information, and physical and digital security of journalists, tailored to the specific needs of each region.

ICFJ and USAID ’s five-year project funding has now ended, but the community of border journalists and their alliances with civil society organizations are designed to last.

Border Hub has trained up a whole cohort of investigative reporters, who continue to communicate and collaborate.

Miriam Ramírez is a journalist from Sinaloa who has covered issues related to drug trafficking, corruption, politics, and human rights for more than a decade .

Priscila Cárdenas is an investigative reporter and teacher based in Sonora , Mexico .

She won a national journalism award in 2019 and received an honorable mention from the Inter-American Press Association .