A Country for Old Men
Latvia is slowly aging. Schools are shut down and transformed into old folks homes. By 2030, almost half of Latvia’s inhabitants are projected to be over the age of 50 while the number of working people will drop by one…
Dying Out
27.09. A Country for Old Men – schools in Latvia are shut down and transformed into old folks’ homes 04.10. Past migration experiences dampen Latvia’s appetite to patch looming labour gap 11.10. Will automation bring liveable wages to fast-food restaurant employees? 18.10. Why return of…
How smuggler helped Russia to catch Estonian officer
TALLINN — Russia is recruiting smugglers on its border with Estonia to work as spies and informants in an attempt to destabilize the NATO country, a joint BuzzFeedNews/Re:Baltica investigation can reveal.
Land of paedophiles
This is the English version of Inga Spriņģe’s opinion piece for Norway’s newspaper Dagbladet on why should they care about being called paedophiles. A couple of years ago an article on Facebook, shared widely by several of my educated, urbanite, latte-drinking…
TEDxRiga: Can cute kittens save journalism?
Can cute kittens save journalism? Re:Baltica’s Inga Springe reveals it all! Watch her #TEDxRiga 2017 talk.
Re:Baltica organizes the third annual journalism rockfestival
For the third year in a row Re:Baltica, together with The Centre for Media Studies at SSE Riga, organizes a journalism festival where seven excellent journalists from the Baltics, Ukraine, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom will share their stories.
Re:Baltica and Toneboard receive 50 000 from Google to develop a new tool
Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism Re:Baltica and artificial intelligence and automated speech analytics start-up Toneboard have received the Google Digital News Initiative (DNI) Innovation Fund support to create a fact-checking platform.
Who pushes Kremlin propaganda in Poland
Invisible editor, suburban radio, truly Russia-loving political activists: all is good.
Jaunā skola: How did we do it?
Why investigative journalism is expensive. Re:Baltica’s education project “Jaunā skola“.