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The Oceans Investigations Guide
This encyclopedia from The Outlaw Ocean Project offers pointers for investigating ocean crimes and concerns.
How They Did It
Opening the AI ‘Black Box’: How We Investigated Grab’s Fare System
How the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism looked into the opaque algorithm used by the ride-hailing company Grab.
Fake Fertilizer, Dirty Money, and a Kidnapping Epidemic: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories from Sub-Saharan Africa
Also featuring revelations about misuse of college scholarships for the needy in Ghana, a televangelist’s troubling empire in Nigeria, and a US charity’s luxury spending using funds intended for feeding the poor in Malawi.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Investigating Mining, Tracking Trolling, and Deconstructing a Building Collapse: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories from Turkey
Investigative journalism in Turkey faces many challenges and obstacles, but there are remarkable reporters digging into untold stories.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Digital Slavery, Nickel Downstreaming, and Timber Grabbing: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in Southeast Asia
This year’s picks emphasize the region’s increasingly sophisticated cross-border crimes, but also how investigative journalists consistently expose them.
Teaching & Training
Digital Threats: Fourth Cyber Investigations Training Course
In GIJN’s digital threats training course, reporters from around the world will learn how to investigate the digital environment in order to understand and expose disinformation, online attacks, and manipulation.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
A Mysterious Poisoning, Contaminated Tanker Trucks, and a Death in Custody: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories About China
Also featuring reporting on an elaborate con on a Chinese dissident, an academic credentials scandal, and trekking with Chinese migrants to the US border.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Switzerland’s Hidden Slave Trade, Migrants ‘Dumped’ in the Desert, and a Religious Sex Scandal: 2024’s Best Investigations in French
Featuring stories from France to the Ivory Coast, Switzerland to Senegal, here are eight of the best investigations published in French this year.
Data Journalism Top 10 Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Editor’s Pick: Top 10 Data Journalism Projects of 2024
Highlights from a year of data journalism columns, from elections to the Olympics and the evolution of the love song.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Deadly Protests, Rising Seas, and Investigating Corruption: 2024’s Best Investigations from Bangladesh
Also featuring investigations into UN peacekeepers, population data fudging, and the inadequate academic qualifications of a powerful police chief.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Tracking the Exploitation of Illegal Gold, Human Trafficking, and Government Corruption: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in Spanish
A tour of the year’s best investigations from across Latin America and Spain, where journalists are uncovering stories that impact their communities.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Investigating Yemen’s War, Uncovering Famine in Sudan, and Telling the Story of Gaza: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories from the Middle East
Plus a deep dive into a powerful figure behind a vital border crossing, an investigation into mercenaries in Yemen, and exposing real estate ownership in Dubai.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
GIJN Resource Center’s Top Guides and Tipsheets from 2024
GIJN’s top reporting guides and tipsheets from 2024, including an introduction to investigative journalism and guides on project management, fundraising, and extreme heat.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Government Coalition Collapse, Green-Washing Natural Gas, Europe’s Opioid Crisis: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in German
Also featured on our list, a #MeToo case in higher education, secret funding of ‘race science,’ and the state of Swiss prisons.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
The Blasphemy Business, Real Estate Land Grabs, Instagram Misinformation: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in Pakistan
Our annual best-of list features stories on Pakistan’s sanitary workers, links between politicians and sugar mills, and the endless construction of a Balochistan road.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Tracking Election Donations, Illicit Gold Markets, Parliamentary Stonewalling: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in India
Also featuring a look at algorithmic bias in dispensing food aid, corruption in the country’s largest civil service exam, and a tragic construction accident.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
GIJN’s Top Investigative Tools of 2024
In 2024, new and innovative digital tools provided leads and evidence for accountability stories on every continent.
Guide Resource
Investigating Health and Medicine
Read our updated guide to reporting on health and medicine, featuring lessons learned from covering the coronavirus outbreak.
Guide Resource
Guide: Introduction to Investigative Journalism
Featuring advice on fact checking, digital security tips, interview techniques, and guidelines for editors.
Guide Resource
Reporting Guide to Holding Governments Accountable for Climate Change Pledges
The global fight against climate change depends on the actions of individual nations — so national accountability is critical.
Guide Resource
GIJN Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters — Revised for 2024
Featuring a broad array of tools, techniques, and resources to help watchdog reporters dig into almost any campaign or election.
Guide Resource
GIJN Guide to Project Management in Investigative Journalism
The comprehensive guide offers detailed advice on managing the non-investigative aspects of collaborative projects.
Guide Resource
GIJN Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes
This comprehensive guide includes expert advice from more than two dozen specialists and journalists.
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Grants for Cross-Border Teams Investigating Environmental Issues in Europe
As part of its Earth Investigations Programme, Journalismfund Europe is offering another round of grants for cross-border teams of professional journalists. The funding, which totals €1.6 million (US$ 1.7 million) for the 2025 cohort, targets investigations into the environment in Europe (not just the EU) and is not limited to media organizations in Europe (although any final story or stories must be published by at least one Europe-based site). The grant can used by journalists to fund reporting time and logistics expenses as well as cover legal costs and investments in necessary technology or datasets. The next deadline to apply is January 23, 2025.
SIRAJ Uncovers Evidence That Assad’s Syrian Intelligence Was Secretly Spying on Its Journalists
In the wake of the collapse of President Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, GIJN member SIRAJ has uncovered internal documents showing that his intelligence agencies were surveilling members of the site's staff and tracking their work. In a post on his LinkedIn account, SIRAJ founder Mohammad Bassiki detailed the revelations, saying: "We now know there were a total of six former Assad's regime security branches secretly pursing us inside and outside Syria." However, this intense scrutiny, he noted, was proof of the power of accountability journalism, even when facing one of the most implacable totalitarian regimes. Bassiki also promised a fuller account of his findings will be published soon on SIRAJ's site.
Georgian Journalists Attacked by Police While Covering Pro-EU Protests
Source: Committee to Protect Journalists
At least 50 journalists have been injured by police in recent weeks while covering pro-EU demonstrations in Georgia. According to the CPJ, dozens of reporters covering the mass protests in Tbilisi and elsewhere in Georgia have been brutalized or unfairly detained while doing their jobs. While Georgia's Special Investigation Service said it will be looking into these assaults on the press, CPJ decried what it called a clear pattern of intimidation. “Georgian authorities must hold police officers to account for brutalizing members of the press and publicly commit to uphold journalist safety during the protests," said CPJ Europe and Central Asia program coordinator Gulnoza Said in a statement.
Lighthouse Reports Extends Application Deadline for OSINT Workshop for Young Syrians Based in the EU
GIJN member Lighthouse Reports is holding workshops in Berlin in January 2025 for young Syrians and Afghans living in the EU who are interested in pursuing a career in OSINT and investigative journalism. The December 4 application deadline has been extended to Wednesday, December 11 for Syrian applicants. The workshop will “combine training, practical exercises and Q&As with expert guest speakers. Trainers will cover social media investigations, analyzing satellite imagery and plane and ship tracking, amongst other topics.” The workshop is open to students, recent graduates, or young professionals already based in the Schengen Area.
European Federation of Journalists to Stop Publishing on Social Media Site X
Source: European Federation of Journalists
The EFJ announced that it will soon stop publishing content on the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter. The EFJ, which represents nearly 300,000 journalists in 44 countries, said that it will no longer update its account with content from its members as of January 20, 2025. It joins the Guardian and other European media sites that have ceased updating their X accounts, citing numerous actions by new owner Elon Musk which includes downranking news links, ending free verification, and changing its algorithm to push right-wing content. The EFJ said that it can "no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda."
Applications are Open for the Kim Wall Memorial Fund
Swedish journalist Kim Wall had an accomplished career as an international correspondent, reporting from Cuba, Kampala, and Sri Lanka. When she was killed while reporting a story, her family set up a memorial fund in her name, in co-ordination with the International Women's Media Foundation. Since 2018, the fund has awarded more than a dozen $5,000 reporting grants to women and nonbinary journalists "whose reporting carries forward Kim’s legacy." “We can never get Kim back, but we can see to it that her spirit and will live on, and inspire other young journalists to go out in the world and find the stories," her family said. Deadline: December 8.
Apply Now for Rest and Resilience Journalism Fellowships
Source: Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is offering its annual Rest & Resilience Fellowship to two journalists for a six-month period in Berlin, Germany. The program is for working journalists who reside in countries with onerous press freedom restrictions, who will be invited to Germany from May until October, giving them time to decompress from stressful conditions related to their reporting work. Fellows receive additional training through workshops and network with other international journalists. All travel, lodging, and other costs are covered by the program, which also includes a €1,000 (US$1,100) monthly stipend. Deadline: November 25.
Study on the State of Ocean Reporting Released
The Pulitzer Center's Ocean Reporting Network has released a new study, Making Waves, that examines the state of ocean reporting. The project looks at initiatives for more impactful ocean storytelling and includes expert voices, opportunities to increase coverage, identifies key stakeholders and audiences, and offers advice on network building and better engagement. To learn more, there is also an upcoming webinar on the report hosted by Pulitzer Center Ocean Editor Jessica Aldred on December 3.
Reporters Without Borders Sues X/Twitter for Identity Theft, Spreading Disinformation
Source: Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is pursuing criminal charges in a French court for the alleged failure of X (formerly Twitter) to respond to policy violations involving the press freedom group. According to RSF, Elon Musk's company repeatedly ignored posts and accounts that misrepresented RSF's positions and falsely used the group's logo and photos, all violations of the EU's Digital Services Act. "X’s refusal to remove content that it knows is false and deceitful — as it was duly informed by RSF — makes it complicit in the spread of the disinformation," said RSF Director of Advocacy and Assistance Antoine Bernard.
IPI Publishes 2nd Media Capture Monitoring Report, on Hungary
Source: International Press Institute
Public broadcasters and media regulators have become "fully captured" by Hungary's governing Fidesz Party, according to the second in a series of Media Capture Monitoring Reports assessing the state of press freedom in European countries. This series, a joint project between the International Press Institute and the Media and Journalism Research Center, found that media capture is "well entrenched" in the Central European nation. It further cites a "stark gap between the laws nominally designed to protect media independence and how they are applied in practice."
10 Questions Africa Focus
Fighting a ‘Scourge of Secrecy’ and Uncovering Corruption in Malawi
GIJN’s Benon Herbert Oluka talks to Golden Matonga, investigations director at the Platform for Investigative Journalism – Malawi, about his career uncovering corruption.
10 Questions
Investigating ‘Chapter Two’ Stories and Under-the-Radar Harms
Investigative reporter Annie Hylton on her journey from law to journalism, overlooked stories, and advice for interviewing sources living with trauma.
10 Questions
Four Decades Digging Into Australia’s Underbelly, from Corrupt Politicians to Organized Crime
Throughout her career, the trailblazing Sydney Morning Herald investigative journalist Kate McClymont has exposed graft, bribery, and misconduct.
10 Questions News & Analysis
10 Questions with Mohamad Abu Shahma: Working — And Living — Inside Gaza as an Investigative Journalist
GIJN spoke with the northern Gaza-based journalist about how he has managed to survive and work as a watchdog reporter under harrowing, life-threatening conditions.
Africa Focus Data Journalism
How Data Journalism Is Changing the Face of Africa
Data journalism in Africa has made a powerful impact, from holding leaders accountable to refuting myths around domestic violence. But the field faces formidable challenges.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Trust Issues: Using Data to Dig Into Who Profits from US Tribal Lands
A recent investigation by Grist, a nonprofit independent media outlet, dug into federal datasets to uncover the extent of state trust lands on Indigenous reservations across the US.
Data Journalism Reporting Tools & Tips
NASA’s Worldview Site Expands Data and Environmental Reporter’s Toolbox
NASA’s Worldview database is a valuable tool that journalists can use to find data and free graphics on a range of topics, like wildfires, floods, deforestation, and many more.
Data Journalism My Favorite Tools
My Favorite Tools: Sigma Award-Winning Data Journalist Leonardo Nicoletti
The data visualization expert and former academic stresses the importance of having an ‘interdisciplinary mindset’ when approaching data-driven stories.
Africa Focus Member Profiles
‘Sowing the Seed:’ The Museba Project’s Ambitious Investigative Journalism in Central Africa
Since its inception, the Cameroon-based journalism collective has had a double mission: first to train journalists, and then to encourage them to work together.
GIJC25 Member Profiles
Building an Independent Newsroom That’s a ‘Pain in the Neck’ to the Powerful, Brick by Brick
Launching as a digital outlet 25 years ago gave Malaysiakini’s founders the freedom to report on stories that others feared to cover.
Member Profiles
Fighting State Capture Through Collaboration: How amaBhungane Has Redefined Investigative Journalism in Southern Africa
As well as playing an outsize role in exposing state capture and toppling South Africa’s former president, this newsroom is a champion for investigative journalism in the region.
LATAM Focus Member Profiles News & Analysis
The Power of Collaboration: El CLIP and the Plan to Transform Latin America’s Investigative Ecosystem
CLIP was founded by three leading journalists who shared the conviction that to mirror the transnational challenges journalists face in Latin America, the stories had to be cross-border too.
Projects
Africa Focus
The second in our ongoing series of regional spotlight weeks 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.
2024 Elections
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.
Investigating Russia and the War in Ukraine
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, GIJN has published a series of stories and tipsheets for investigative journalists covering the war. This includes a wide range range of topics, from tracking Russian assets to investigating war crimes.
Videos
Resource Video
Expert Tips for Fundraising for Investigative Journalism in Africa
Despite the funding and sustainability challenges that watchdog reporting faces today, journalists across Africa are producing top-tier investigative stories. This is evident in, among others, the GIJN Editor’s Picks stories for the region from 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, and the decade before. However, Africa needs to catch up to the rest of the muckraking world […]
Resource Video
Investigating Latin America’s Global Reach Of Illicit Activities
How reporters have covered illicit money flows, drug trafficking, and environmental crimes when webs of misconduct start in Latin America but impact communities around the world.
Resource Video
Investigating the Extractives Industry in Africa
Africa is home to a substantial amount of the global mineral wealth. The continent, according to the Natural Resource Governance Institute, holds about 30% of the world’s oil, gas, and mineral resources. This includes up to 92% of the world’s platinum and chromium reserves, 56% of cobalt, 54% of manganese, and 40% of its gold. […]
Resource Video
Investigating the Israel Hamas Conflict
Seven months into the conflict between Israel and Hamas, journalists carrying out their work in the region have faced unparalleled challenges. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, as of April 9th, preliminary investigations show at least 95 journalists and media workers were among the more than 34,000 estimated killed since the conflict began on […]