Data Journalism
How Non-Coding Journalists Can Build Web Scrapers With AI — Examples and Prompts Included
With basic web knowledge, guidance, and examples, even non-coding journalists can build a scraper with large language models.
News & Analysis
2025 Double Exposure Festival: Interrogating New Fault Lines on Lethal Inequity, Human Resilience, and the Limits of Journalism
The four-day event will showcase 25 feature-length and short-form documentaries that shine new narrative light on urgent topics in North America and far beyond.
News & Analysis
Finding — and Building — Your Professional Community to Strengthen Investigative Journalism
Networking in journalism, especially investigative journalism, is not merely about establishing superficial contacts but about building a trust-based, ethical, and resilient professional community.
News & Analysis
Q & A with Liset Cruz, Reporting on US Medical Deportations
Type Investigations goes behind the scenes of a recent exposé on how hospitals are turning to medical deportations of undocumented patients in the United States.
GIJC25
‘Doing this Job Means Always Weighing the Risks’: A Kenyan Data Reporter on the Jump from Academia to Journalism
GIJC25 speaker Purity Mukami, who trained as a statistician, is one of the pioneering women reporters helping to build data journalism in East Africa.
Data Journalism Top 10
What’s Next for a Devastated Gaza, TikTok’s Addictive Algorithm, Trump Food Aid Cuts Hit the Poor, Ukraine Strikes Russian Energy
Our round-up of the best in recent data journalism also features stories on what happens next in Gaza, a wildfire in a Namibian nature reserve, and the rise of the bespoke tailoring market in India.
Getting Started in Investigative Journalism
Mentoring Under Pressure: How One Nigerian Woman Is Shaping the Next Generation of Investigative Reporters
Through her two-plus decades of mentoring young journalists, Joke Kujenya has left a legacy of fostering and strengthening investigative reporting in a difficult press climate.
Member Profiles
Uncovering Schemes Worth Billions: Inside the Belarusian Investigative Center
Since 2020, the exiled outlet’s investigations have led to approximately 90 sanction actions, proving how journalism can make a real impact on authoritarian regimes.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Tips for Investigating and Reporting on Ethno-Religious Conflicts Responsibly and Ethically
Reporters, editors, and experts who cover regions with longstanding tensions or conflict between communities share tips and best practices for reporting responsibly — and safely.
Asia Focus GIJC25
‘Our Task as Journalists is to Turn on the Light’: Asian Investigative Journalism Steps Into Focus at GIJC25
The first Global Investigative Journalism Conference to be held in Asia will feature a treasure-trove of Asia-focused panels, data workshops, and networking events,
Asia Focus
‘A Global Transit Point’: Investigating Human Trafficking and People Smuggling in South Asia
Investigations from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India illuminate the routes and networks fueling human trafficking and people smuggling in, and from, the region.
Guide Resource
Open Source Guide to Investigating Chinese Companies
This guide introduces journalists to valuable information sources for China-focused investigations and demonstrates practical methods for accessing and utilizing key reporting tools.
Asia Focus
Data Journalism in Asia: Rethinking the Relationships Between Newsrooms, Communities, and Evidence
Data storytelling newsrooms have found innovative approaches to navigate closed data regimes, political pressures, and resource gaps.
Asia Focus
How Newsrooms are Uncovering Asia’s Climate and Environmental Crises, from Illegal Sand Mining to Sinking Cities
Outlets across the region are collaborating to investigate the environmental harms that cross borders.
10 Questions Asia Focus
Advice from a Pioneer of Investigative Journalism in the Chinese-Speaking World
The award-winning reporter and deputy CEO of Taiwan’s The Reporter says public support is the “vital force” that ensures investigative journalism continues to exist.
10 Questions Asia Focus
‘Impact is Often Subliminal’: A Nepali Journalism Veteran on the Highs — and Lows — of His Reporting Career
Kunda Dixit speaks to GIJN about the challenges he has faced in a storied career in investigative reporting, from going into exile to reporting in the face of legal attacks.
Guide Resource
Reporter’s Guide to Detecting AI-Generated Content
This guide offers journalists a new detection tool and seven advanced techniques for spotting probable AI-generated content.
Guide Resource
Guide to Investigating Social Media Algorithms
Featuring tips, techniques, and best practices for covering the algorithms — and their corresponding impacts — used by tech giants’ social media platforms.
Guide Resource
GIJN Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes
This comprehensive guide includes expert advice from more than two dozen specialists and journalists.
Guide Resource
GIJN Guide to Investigating Foreign Lobbying
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.
Guide Resource
Guide: Introduction to Investigative Journalism
Featuring advice on fact checking, digital security tips, interview techniques, and guidelines for editors.
Guide Resource
Guide to Investigating Land Conflicts in South Asia
This guide equips journalists with the tools and resources to report on conflicts over land and its resources, such as water and forests.
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AIJC2025 Conference Program Released
The program for the 2025 African Investigative Journalism Conference (#AIJC25), the largest gathering of working investigative journalists on the continent, has been released. Hosted by Wits University in Johannesburg, the AIJC is in its 21st year and will be held from 5 - 7 November. The opening keynote speaker will be Fatou Bensouda, former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. “As always, the conference will offer a wide range of training on everything from data wrangling, follow the money exercises, health, whistleblowers, journalists’ safety, innovation, migration, and many more critical topics,” said convener Beauregard Tromp.
Court Brands Independent Kyrgyzstan Outlets ‘Extremist’
A Kyrgyz court has labeled independent news outlets — GIJN members Kloop Media and Temirov Live and Ait Ait Dese — as well as the activities of their founders “extremist” and ordered a ban on their online activities. The ruling will be enforced by the Ministry of Digital Development, but no additional details about the case were provided. The decision is part of a recent and intensifying crackdown on independent media that has included raids, arrests, orders for closure, and prison sentences for journalists. Temirov Live and Kloop said they will appeal the ruling.
Winners of 2025 Maria Ressa Prizes for Courage in Journalism Announced
Source: Philip Merrill College of Journalism
The Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland has announced the 2025 winners of the Maria Ressa Prizes for Courage in Journalism, named for the Filipino journalist, press freedom advocate, and 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Myanmarese documentarian Shin Daewe, the OCCRP, The Haitian Times, and student journalists at UCLA, Indiana University, and Columbia University were selected the 2025 winners; journalists who died covering the war in Gaza were also recognized with a special citation. The honor comes with a US$3,000 cash prize.
Brazil: Abraji and Talanoa Offer Reporting Grants and Training for COP30 Climate Topic
The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) and Instituto Talanoa have launched a program to encourage journalism coverage of climate adaptation, one of the central themes of the forthcoming COP30 summit in November in Belém, Brazil. Climate adaptation involves policies, technologies, and practices to better deal with the impacts of climate change that are already happening. The initiative includes nine reporting grants and training opportunities for journalists from all over Brazil with international partners, and is open to journalists from countries in Brazil, Europe, and Asia. The first application deadline is November 1, 2025.
Journalists Imprisoned in Belarus and Georgia Win Top EU Human Rights Award
Two imprisoned journalists have won the Sakharov Prize, the EU’s top human rights honor. Andrzej Poczobut, a correspondent for Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, was convicted of “harming Belarus’ national security” and is currently serving an eight-year sentence in the Novopolotsk penal colony. Mzia Amaghlobeli, who founded two of Georgia’s independent media outlets, is serving a two-year prison sentence for slapping a police chief during an anti-government protest. European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said: “Both are journalists currently in prison on trumped-up charges simply for doing their work and for speaking out against injustice.”
Bomb Explodes Under Italian Investigative Journalist’s Car, No Casualties
The TV news show of one of Italy’s leading investigative journalists, Sigfrido Ranucci, announced on October 17 that an explosive device had detonated under his car, outside his home in Pomezia near Rome. No one was injured in the explosion, which destroyed his car as well as his family’s other car and the house next door. "The force of the explosion was so strong that it could have killed anyone passing by at the moment," Ranucci news show Report said in a statement on X. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni strongly condemned what she called a "serious act of intimidation.”
European Press Prize 2026 Open for Entries
The 2026 edition of the European Press Prize is open for entries until December 14, 2025. The Prize accepts entries in five categories: distinguished reporting, innovation, investigative reporting, public discourse, and migration journalism. Journalists from all 46 European countries — as defined by the Council of Europe — and Belarus and Russia are eligible to enter their work. Journalists with European nationality, working on the European continent, and journalists working for a European media organization or outlet are also eligible. All work submitted must have been published between December 1, 2024 and December 31, 2025.
US Deports Journalist Mario Guevara to El Salvador
Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara, who was arrested in Atlanta in June while covering a “No Kings” protest against Trump administration policies, has been deported to his native El Salvador. According to his lawyers, he was not a permanent resident but had a work permit and a pending green card application, and the charges stemming from the arrest were dropped. Press freedom groups say Guevara, who came to the US in 2004 to escape persecution in El Salvador, was detained in retaliation for his reporting on immigration raids. A White House spokesperson denied that the deportation was connected to freedom of speech issues.
Winners of 2025 Maria Moors Cabot Prizes Announced
Source: Columbia Journalism School
The Maria Moors Cabot Prizes, established in 1938, are the oldest international awards in journalism and honor reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean, recognizing journalists and news organizations that have contributed to Inter-American understanding. The 2025 Cabot Prize Gold Medalists are: Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, United States; Omaya Sosa Pascual, Center for Investigative Journalism, Puerto Rico; Isabella Cota, ICIJ, Mexico; and Natalia Viana, Agência Pública, Brazil. For the second time in its 86-year history, all four of the 2025 Cabot Prize Gold Medalists are women.
World’s Leading Economists Call for the Protection of Public Interest Media
Source: Forum on Information and Democracy
Ahead of the UN General Assembly in New York this week, 11 of the world’s leading economists, including Nobel Prize winner and GIJC25 speaker Joseph E. Stiglitz, issued a plea to “recognize and uphold the economic value of public interest media in the age of artificial intelligence.” The Paris-based nonprofit Forum on Information and Democracy brought together a High-Level Panel on Public Interest Media to study the causes of the media crisis, create a plan for governments worldwide, and promote the essential role of public interest media in shaping vibrant economies.
10 Questions Asia Focus
Advice from a Pioneer of Investigative Journalism in the Chinese-Speaking World
The award-winning reporter and deputy CEO of Taiwan’s The Reporter says public support is the “vital force” that ensures investigative journalism continues to exist.
10 Questions Asia Focus
‘Impact is Often Subliminal’: A Nepali Journalism Veteran on the Highs — and Lows — of His Reporting Career
Kunda Dixit speaks to GIJN about the challenges he has faced in a storied career in investigative reporting, from going into exile to reporting in the face of legal attacks.
10 Questions
‘Obsession Is What Investigative Journalism Is Really About’: 10 Questions with Doğu Eroğlu
The investigative journalist — who has covered topics from ISIS to troll armies — talks to GIJN about his novel reporting methods and keeping investigative journalism alive in Turkey.
10 Questions
You Can Try Your Best and Fail, But Still You Learn: Insights from Africa’s Investigative Journalist of the Year
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.
Data Journalism
How Non-Coding Journalists Can Build Web Scrapers With AI — Examples and Prompts Included
With basic web knowledge, guidance, and examples, even non-coding journalists can build a scraper with large language models.
Data Journalism
Rewriting the Rules of Digital Verification: How African Investigative Journalists Are Building New Data Models
The global nonprofit WITNESS seeks to address one of the biggest data gaps in the digital verification landscape: the dependence on tools-based methods that lack local knowledge.
Data Journalism How They Did It
How a Le Monde Team Uncovered 300 Contaminants in France’s Groundwater
The French investigative reporter and data journalist shares the methods behind her team’s major investigation into Europe’s polluted groundwater crisis.
Data Journalism
Summer Reading List for Data Journalists: For Those Who Believe in the Power of Storytelling with Numbers
Featuring books spanning four continents, these recommended reads provide a global perspective on data journalism.
Member Profiles
Uncovering Schemes Worth Billions: Inside the Belarusian Investigative Center
Since 2020, the exiled outlet’s investigations have led to approximately 90 sanction actions, proving how journalism can make a real impact on authoritarian regimes.
Asia Focus Member Profiles
Asking Tough Questions, Publishing ‘Without Fear’: The Reporters’ Collective in India
This small yet notorious investigative outlet was formed almost by accident — but has gone on to investigate electoral issues, conflict, and the death of an Indian journalist.
Member Profiles News & Analysis
Seeking the Truth, in the Midst of a Country in Crisis: Haiti’s AyiboPost
Being a journalist in Haiti means not only witnessing daily violence but also being a potential target, one news outlet remains a home for those who refuse to stop reporting.
Case Studies Member Profiles
How Italy’s First Investigative Center Combines Italian and International Angles
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.
Asia Focus
Our latest regional spotlight series examines the world’s largest and most populous continent, which is also the host of GIJN’s 14th Global Investigative Journalism Conference. Asia serves as a unique laboratory in the global media landscape, but journalists here face multifaceted challenges, from censorship to physical threats, digital surveillance to financial pressures. Despite this, watchdog […]
MENA Focus
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.
Africa Focus
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.
LATAM Focus
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.
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Gathering Evidence and Documents in Conflict and War Zones — A MENA Case Study
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.
Resource Video
How to Acquire Free Satellite Imagery for Your Investigations
Satellite imagery has become a game-changer for investigative journalism, offering powerful tools to uncover hidden stories.
Resource Video
Lessons Learned from Investigating the 2024 Elections
The 2024 elections marked a seismic year for democracies worldwide, presenting investigative journalists with unique challenges and opportunities.
Resource Video
How Africa Connects to Your Story
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.