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Nonprofit Newsroom Survival Guide (part two)

By: David E. Kaplan |
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Last month we wrote about survival strategies for nonprofit investigative journalism organizations. As we stressed in that story, key to succeeding in the long term is diversifying revenue. Now, GIJN's colleagues at the Investigative News Network have put together a useful infographic on the varied sources of revenue that groups can tap. GIJN's staff will be joining an INN day on managing nonprofit newsrooms, held at the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference on June 20 in San Antonio, Texas. Included will be sessions on fundraising, best practices, branding and membership. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Events, Funding, Resources, Sustainability, INN, Investigative News Network, Investigative Reporters and Editors, revenue

Moving Walls: a Photography Exhibition on Human Rights

By: GIJN Staff |
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Moving Walls 20 is a documentary photography exhibition on human rights, produced by the Open Society Foundations (OSF). The current exhibit highlights societies undergoing transition in China and the Middle East, and people suffering from repressive regimes and injustice in North Korea, Sierra Leone, and Ukraine. The Moving Walls project began in 1998 and has featured more than 170 artists whose works address issues of social justice and human rights. OSF provides grants to participating photographers, whose work is exhibited at the foundation’s New York and Washington, D.C., offices. Interested photographers should check in late 2013 for the next call for submissions. Continue Reading →

Filed under: General, Resources, china, creative commons, human rights, middle east, Open Society Foundations, photos

Data Journalism: GIJN’s Global Guide to Resources

By: Kate Willson |
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As our governments and businesses become increasingly flush with information, more and bigger data are becoming available from across the globe. Increasingly, investigative reporters need to know how to obtain, clean, and analyze “structured information” in this digital world. Otherwise, they and the news organizations they work for will miss some of the most important stories of our time. Even in relatively closed societies, journalists can now work their way from the outside in, using international data sets to reveal what’s happening in their home countries. Here is a list of resources to get you started, but we want to keep updating our community with the best resources available. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Data-Driven Journalism, Events, Methodology, Resources, CAR, computer-assisted journalism, conferences, data analysis

Investigative Journalism Nonprofits: A Survival Guide

By: David E. Kaplan |
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One of the bright spots in investigative journalism over the past decade has been the rapid spread of nonprofits dedicated to supporting in-depth journalism around the world. A 2012 survey by the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) identified 106 investigative journalism nonprofits in nearly 50 countries – with more than half of them founded in the past five years. The list includes nonprofit newsrooms, online publishers, professional associations, grant-making funds, NGOs, training institutes, and academic centers. About half are based in the United States, where the hollowing out of traditional media has sparked the founding of dozens of these nonprofit newsrooms at the state and local level. Moreover, the trend does not appear to be abating. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Funding, Resources, Sustainability, Abraji, crowd-funding, funding, fundraising, grants

A Guide to Journalism Safety Organizations

By: Center for International Media Assistance |
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The figures are grim for our colleagues around the world. Since 1992, 978 journalists have been killed, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. More than 60 percent have been murdered with impunity; that is, no killer was ever brought to justice. And today, 232 journalists are in prison worldwide, many for doing what would be considered routine reporting in much of the world. The problem, moreover, appears to be growing worse. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Resources, Security, impunity, safety, security

The Global FOI Guide

By: Kate Willson |
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Today, more than 90 countries have laws that require officials to turn over public records, and the number continues to grow each year. And even in countries with no laws specifying whether records should be made available, it never hurts to ask. Below are a few of the best resources for journalists seeking to file records requests in countries with laws governing access to information. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Freedom of Information, Resources, access, FOI, freedom of information, right to information, RTI, wobbing

Disclosing Tax Data

By: Sheila Coronel |

Around the world, many governments are proposing painful solutions to the problem of public debt and imposing heavier tax burdens on citizens. As government services are cut because public coffers are bare, public attention is shifting to the taxes paid – or not paid – by the wealthy and the privileged. Continue Reading →

Filed under: General, News, Resources, Center for Investigative Reporting in Pakistan, CIRP, FOIANet, Sheila Coronel, skattelister.no

The Secret World of Private Companies

By: Sheila Coronel |
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You’d think that getting the names of the shareholders of a company would be fairly easy. Such information should be routinely available. In fact in many parts of the world, it isn’t. Not if you’re talking about private companies, which have managed to elude public scrutiny even in an era of increasing transparency. To be sure, there’s a wealth of information on listed companies. Continue Reading →

Filed under: General, Resources

Planespotting and Investigative Reporting

By: Sheila Coronel |
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Planespotters are hobbyists who have a passion for planes: they track, photograph and record aircraft takeoffs and landings, taking note of registration numbers and other markings. I became interested in planespotting some years ago, after viewing the clever video posted by the Tunisian blogger Astrubal, who put together planespotters’ photographs of the Tunisian presidential plane’s comings and goings. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Resources

Global Network News: Growing Networks, Fundraising Partnerships, Summer Schools

By: GIJN Staff |

Growing Networks, Global Reach
Despite tough economic times and often hostile governments, the global investigative reporting community continues to grow and is attracting a new generation of journalists. That was the clear message from two outsized conferences last month in Boston and Hamburg. Investigative Reporters and Editors hosted its largest conference in years, drawing an enthusiastic 1200 people to Boston in mid-June. GIJN’s secretariat worked closely with IRE to bring journalists from a record 42 countries to the conference. Among the groups represented: Consejo de Redaccion (Colombia), Gravande Journalister (Sweden), Netzwerk Recherche (Germany), and SKUP (Norway) as well as journalists from Brazil, China, Tunisia, and Zimbabwe. Continue Reading →

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