Far Cry 2

First off, go here: http://farcry2game.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2666 These are the scans of the map from the official guide, which show the locations for all the diamonds and Jackal Tapes. (Credit to the person on the site who posted it, not me) The tapes appear as a cassette tape on the map, and your GPS light will pulse when you're near them like you do with diamonds.

There are a total of 17 Jackal Tapes in the game: 1 that the Journalist gives to you, and 16 for you to find. There are 8 in the North and 8 in the South, with one in each square part of the map except for the center square in the North (where the city is), and the Southeastern square in the South (where the bar is).

You basically only get two chances to turn tapes into the Journalist, once before you leave the North, then once in the South. Both times he'll appear sitting at a table in the Bar with the rest of your buddies.

The Journalist seems to appear almost at random in the North, but usually does near the end of the storyline in the area, or once you've accumulated enough tapes. Just to be sure, when you get a mission to assassinate someone at Goka Falls, don't take the mission yet and finish off collecting the Northern tapes, and hopefully the Journalist will have appeared.

When you go to the South, the Journalist should automatically appear once you've got all 8 tapes in the area. If he appears before you have all of the tapes, don't approach him as he may not appear again and you'll lose out on the achievement.

What most people don't notice is that if you miss some in the North, you can go back and get them. HOWEVER, when you pick them up, they will not play their audio, nor will they be added to your list in the pause menu. Because of this, you'll have to make sure on your own that you've collected all of them in the North before handing over the last batch to the Journalist.

The first time you turn over tapes to the Journalist, probably in the North, you'll unlock Investigative Reporter for 10 points.

When you hand over all 17 tapes, you'll unlock Pulitzer Material for 20 points.

Click HERE for the map: (Thanks to Codster2005)

There are a total of 16 Jackal Tapes in the game, 8 in the North and 8 in the South. When you pick one up- it will appear in the Menu and it will play a sound fragment... HOWEVER there is a glitch. When you proceed to the South and pick up a Jackal Tape, he's probably going to talk about a boy with a shotgun... and the Tape won't appear in the Menu. DON'T WORRY! I had that glitch too, just collect the Jackal Tapes EVEN if they don't appear in the Menu, when you have all of them and you give them to the Journalist you should get the Achievement.

Good luck :)

Welcome

I found this great video for all the tapes its for Playstation 3 but its the same thing on Xbox 360, Enjoy & please leave a vote .

For anybody still playing Far Cry 2 in 2023 and later, I found the following maps by Game Pressure to be excellent for locating the Jackal Tapes. See a link to the Game Pressure site for

Leboa-Sako (Northern map)
https://www.gamepressure.com/farcry2/general-map-leboa-sako-...

and Bowa-Seko (Southern Map)
https://www.gamepressure.com/farcry2/general-map/zf16ec

These maps are great because they show the entire General map, but then also clearly break them down into the individual 9x9 sectors, so you can mark off each tape as you collect them.

Notes on the Journalist:
In my experience, the Journalist spawns when you have collected all 8 Jackal tapes within the region (North or South). When I started working on this achievement I had already progressed to the Southern map so I was not sure whether this achievement would unlock correctly, but following the other guides here, these were the steps I took to unlock the achievement:

1. After finishing the game, I loaded an old save where I was in the Southern map (73% Completion). I had already collected at least 1 tape in the North and at least 1 in the South
2. I returned to the Northern map and collected all the remaining Jackal Tapes there
3. The Journalist spawned AT MIKE'S BAR IN THE NORTHERN MAP, even though the story had progressed to the South. This is important to note. I handed all Northern Jackal tapes to the journalist here, and unlocked the Investigative Reporter achievement
4. After handing in the tapes, I moved to the South map and collected all the remaining Jackal tapes there. I encountered the bug where all Jackal tapes in the South played the audio from Stealing Boots, and were not added to the Menu. But i kept collecting them anyway
5. After collecting all the Jackal tapes in the South, the Journalist appeared in Marina's Bar and I handed them all in to get this achievement.

Hopefully this is helpful to someone.