Our round-up of the best in recent data journalism also features stories on Russia’s military equipment losses, Pacific deep-sea mining, and Paralympic swimming.
“The Salt Path” was a bestselling memoir that was turned into a hot ticket film starring Gillian Anderson. But after a tipoff, this reporter wondered if everything was quite as it seemed.
GIJC25 will feature an esteemed line-up of journalism veterans, data gurus, and subject matter experts from nearly 100 countries.
Nominations are now open for three regional representatives, and for four at-large director positions on the organization’s board.
Joseph Poliszuk — co-founder of Venezuela’s Armando.info — has spent years investigating illegal mining and drug trafficking. He speaks to GIJN ahead of his appearance at GIJC25 in Malaysia.
Investment funds issued to finance Brazil’s agribusiness sector bundle various bonds — some of them labeled “green” — but are tied to socio-environmental violations or potential land grabbing.
Verah Okeyo and Anne Mawathe were frustrated with newsroom constraints and envisioned producing deeply reported stories that communities, policymakers, and global audiences could not ignore.
The team used leaked documents and an interview with the AI tool’s developer to reveal numerous mistakes behind the Trump administration’s cost-cutting measures of veterans’ care.
Karen Hao — one of the world’s leading voices on the impacts and potential harms of artificial intelligence — speaks to GIJN ahead of her appearance at GIJC25 in Malaysia.
Our latest round-up of the best in data journalism also features stories on Xi Jinping’s military purge and climate change-fueled flooding in Pakistan.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee offer insights into sources and techniques for investigating water usage by major tech companies’ data centers.
Bellingcat ran a series of geolocation challenges using two dozen popular AI platforms, with varying results.
The French investigative reporter and data journalist shares the methods behind her team’s major investigation into Europe’s polluted groundwater crisis.
GIJN sat down with newsroom leaders from the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI) to discuss the group’s history, its current business model, and where it plans to go next.
This guide offers journalists a new detection tool and seven advanced techniques for spotting probable AI-generated content.
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Featuring tips, techniques, and best practices for covering the algorithms — and their corresponding impacts — used by tech giants’ social media platforms.
This reporting guide is designed for journalists worldwide — so they can research and produce compelling stories on how countries and companies seek to exert influence abroad.
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Nearly 300 journalists, academics, news outlets, and human rights organizations from Latin America and around the world, including GIJN, have spoken out to defend press freedom in Peru and denounce the recent death threats made against Gustavo Gorriti, director of IDL-Reporteros, and other journalists in the country. In early September, the Lima mayor threatened to kill Gorriti and, before that, the head of investigations at Panamericana TV revealed a plot to assassinate her and her family. The aforementioned group speaking out demands that the Peruvian government "urgently and firmly" defend press freedom and investigate all threats of violence against journalists.
The United Kingdom's military intelligence agency, MI5, has admitted that it “unlawfully” collected phone communications data from Vincent Kearney, a former BBC journalist and currently the northern editor of Irish public broadcaster RTÉ. According to MI5, the agency twice obtained Kearney’s data relating to his work on a 2011 BBC Spotlight documentary about the independence of Northern Ireland's Police Ombudsman’s Office. A lawyer representing Kearney said it "appears to be the first time in any tribunal proceedings in which MI5 publicly accept interference with a journalist’s communications data.”
The UK-based Women in Journalism association is running an AI training course — available online — which will be held every Wednesday from October 1, 2025, to December 3, 2025. The ten-part program is designed to equip journalists with the “AI skills, ethical awareness, and practical tools” needed to keep up with rapid developments in AI use in media. Topics covered include key AI skills, tools such as ChatGPT, large language models (LLMs), advanced AI workflow hacks, creating AI tools for journalists, the dangers of AI, and much more. Attendees can pay £10 (US$14) per session or £80 for all ten sessions in a bundle.
Source: International Federation of Journalists
A recent Israeli airstrike targeted a media center in Sanaa, reportedly killing dozens of civilians and at least nine media workers. The building hit in the bombing housed the offices of the 26 September newspaper, the official news outlet of the Houthi-controlled Yemeni Army, which employs military and civilian journalists. Israel claimed its attack was a retaliatory blow on the "Houthi Public Relations Department" for a previous Houthi drone strike inside Israel. IFJ General Secretary Anthony Bellanger decried the "appalling massacre," saying: "Targeting journalists is a grave violation of international law and an attack on the public’s right to know."
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has announced the honorees for the 2025 International Press Freedom Awards. Journalists from China, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan, and Tunisia will be honored at the 35th annual International Press Freedom Awards in New York on November 20, 2025. CPJ’s 2025 awardees are Dong Yuyu, (China), Elvira del Pilar Nole and Juan Carlos Tito (Ecuador), Bolot Temirov (Kyrgyzstan), and Sonia Dahmani (Tunisia). CPJ noted that "two of this year’s awardees are currently behind bars for their journalism, and three were forced to flee their home countries and now report from exile."
The JournalismAI Festival, which explores the intersection between journalism and artificial intelligence, will take place in London at Prospero House on November 11-12. Polis, the media think tank of the London School of Economics (LSE) is organizing the event with support from the Google News Initiative. This year’s theme explores how AI supports new production, editorial workflows, audience engagement, and distribution, and also investigates how AI is reshaping how journalists report, research, and verify information. Events will include networking sessions, fireside chats, and hands-on workshops. Some sessions will be livestreamed.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Russian authorities to free Heorhiy Levchenko, a Ukrainian journalist captured in August 2023 “in retaliation” for his reporting on the war from occupied territories, according to a CPJ statement. A court in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied city of Melitopol sentenced Levchenko to 16 years in a high-security penal colony for “high treason” and “calling for extremism online” because he used a Telegram channel to share with Ukrainian forces the location of Russian units. Levchenko was the administrator of the Ukrainian news site RIA-Melitopol’s Telegram channel, and also also organized a network of correspondents.
The Climate Arena conference — which will this year be held at Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary, on 10-11 October — brings together journalists, scientists, and researchers with the goal of improving climate investigation and reporting in Europe. The “hands-on, working” conference is focused on sharing tools and methods, datasets, insights, and fostering collaborations and new cross-border projects. Panels will cover how to spot false climate solutions, trace international climate finance, and report on the impact of deregulation in Europe. There will also be hands-on sessions on using satellite data, mapping tools, and protecting your sources.
The Innovation. Media. Minds. Program, managed by the Goethe Institute and funded by the European Union (EU), is accepting applications for independent media grants for outlets based in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, or Serbia. The grants are intended to support independent media outlets and organizations in the region that promote pluralism of expression, and to boost their cooperation with public service media. Applications must operate as an independent media outlet/media organization. Grants of up to €30,000 (US$34,783) will be awarded. The deadline to apply is September 18, 2025.
Source: Committee to Protect Journalists
In the wake of recent airstrikes that have killed multiple journalists from Al Jazeera and the Associated Press in Gaza, GIJN reiterates its call for unrestricted access and the safety of the press to operate inside the territory. The organization's executive director, Emilia Díaz-Struck, signed onto the letter from the Committee to Protect Journalists, joining more than 200 other global leaders who are demanding that Israel allow "immediate, independent, and unrestricted international media access to Gaza and for full protection of journalists who continue to report under siege."
Blanshe Musinguzi’s award-winning investigation focused on timber smuggling in East Africa. He talks with GIJN about his career so far, and what he’s learned along the way.
GIJN speaks to the veteran reporter who covered the Pacific region from the small island nation of Palau for more than 20 years.
Tips on persistence from a permanently exiled reporter whose multi-year investigation was turned into an Emmy-nominated documentary.
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Connie Walker discusses her favorite podcast tools, the ‘radical transformation’ of how Indigenous issues are covered, and building trust with sources.
The French investigative reporter and data journalist shares the methods behind her team’s major investigation into Europe’s polluted groundwater crisis.
Featuring books spanning four continents, these recommended reads provide a global perspective on data journalism.
At the 2025 Netzwerk Recherche conference, radio journalists shared how they used data and AI tools to investigate Germany’s cultural sector and the influence of the country’s far right.
The chief data reporter for the Financial Times discusses how he considers the use of text, color, and annotation to aid visual storytelling through charts and graphics.
GIJN sat down with newsroom leaders from the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI) to discuss the group’s history, its current business model, and where it plans to go next.
The organization has one guiding principle: “Let the data speak.” But sometimes getting hold of the information they need is an uphill battle.
For almost 30 years, the Media Foundation for West Africa has supported watchdog journalism and press freedom in both democratic and authoritarian states across the region.
With hundreds of the country’s reporters in exile, the press is under pressure like never before. But this outlet is continuing to report despite all its staff now being based overseas.
Our third regional spotlight series examines the challenges facing our members and other outlets in the Middle East and North Africa, such as war, backsliding democracies, self-censorship, exile, surveillance and imprisonment of journalists, and the hostile legal environment — and why this reality on the ground makes investigative journalism there all the more essential.
Our second regional spotlight series examines the successes and challenges facing our members in Africa and others reporting from the continent. These articles tell the stories of growing journalistic collaboration, courage, and innovation in the face of repression, legal intimidation, lack of access to information, and even physical threats.
Our first regional spotlight series celebrates the achievements of our members in Latin America and others reporting from the region. These articles tell the stories of reporters across the continent, digging into the investigations that matter, and detailing how outlets are creating innovative reporting projects amid their own specific local challenges.
Global elections in 2024 will affect more citizens than in any previous year, and will likely reset humanity’s liberty compass for years ahead. This project features an elections reporting guide, stories on cutting-edge tools for investigating campaigns and candidates, and lessons learned from the best in local watchdog reporting from around the world.
A webinar exploring how investigative journalists can document human rights abuses in war zones, with a focus on methods to ensure the information gathered can later be used by legal investigators or international courts.
Satellite imagery has become a game-changer for investigative journalism, offering powerful tools to uncover hidden stories.
The 2024 elections marked a seismic year for democracies worldwide, presenting investigative journalists with unique challenges and opportunities.
In Africa, more than in most other parts of the world, the hurdles that journalists have to overcome to report beyond their own countries or continent are numerous.
