2013 Legislative Elections in Argentina

  Introduction LA NACIÓN produced a multimedia and multiplatform coverage of the 2013 parliamentary elections with a focus on innovation through database journalism as the fundamental tool to show the contents in a new way and to present the information transparently for the electorate and citizens in general. To add value to the press coverage… Seguir leyendo 2013 Legislative Elections in Argentina

Making public the salaries of the President and ministers in less than 24 hours

From the beginning we were interested in taking the greatest advantage of Declaraciones Juradas Abiertas (Open Asset Declarations), the site we created to inform in an understandable and accessible way the statements of wealth of the main officials of the three branches of government. That is why we thought of working with their salaries. The… Seguir leyendo Making public the salaries of the President and ministers in less than 24 hours

Tecnópolis: a fair, a couple and the milloinaire that was poor

In 2012, reading the Official Bulletin (Boletín official), we started to detect high prices in the direct hiring of firms for building stands at a fair organized by the national government, known as “Tecnópolis”, and that functions as a mega show of science, art and technology, inaugurated in June 2011 by the president, Cristina Fernández… Seguir leyendo Tecnópolis: a fair, a couple and the milloinaire that was poor

President’s private secretary resigns after his wealth come to light

Thanks to a new regulation on statements of wealth approved in 2013, all material on the wealth of officials is published online in the Anticorruption Office site. From there at the beginning of 2014 we took the asset statements of the private secretaries of the President: Martín Federico Aguirres and Pablo Erasmo Barreiro. Both, according… Seguir leyendo President’s private secretary resigns after his wealth come to light