Interesting: Drug War Fueling Police Corruption Cases

A growing number of police and private contractors who work with law enforcement are getting nailed for working with drug gangs, says this Reuters report.

TAGS: corruption, police, law enforcement, investigations, drugs

The Biz: SnagFilms Offers Free Streaming Docs

A new venture called SnagFilms is offering a nice library of free streaming documentary films, without any need to download anything. See a MarketWatch story on it here. Traditional media can say what they want about this kind of thing, but the consensus among industry analysts is we'll probably get most of our media content like this within about 10 years. Yeah, there are greater challenges for getting money out of it for us content providers, but I also see it as democratization. Even a TV with a few hundred channels can't compete with the interactivity of the web.

TAGS: future of journalism, tech, the biz

Awards: Latin American Journos Win International Prizes for Probes

Congrats to Mabel Rehnfeldt of Paraguayan daily ABC Color and Américo Zambrano, from Peruvian newsmagazine Caretas for their investigative series on high-level corruption and links between a powerful family and drug trafficking. Their stories are the winners of the 2007 Award for Best Investigative Journalism Report on Corruption, granted yearly by Transparency International for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad. See more on the stories and awards here.

TAGS: drugs, corruption, investigations, investigative journalism, awards