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
‘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.
State-Connected Oligarchs and Looted Public Funds: Tracking Illicit Money Across Asia
In this installment of GIJN’s Asia Focus project, we look at how investigative journalists across the continent are exposing kleptocracy and documenting official corruption.
Asia Focus
Investigative Journalism in Asia: Resistance, Transformation, and Solidarity Amidst Mounting Press Challenges
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.
Data Journalism Top 10
Data Centers’ Impact on Utility Prices, UK’s Far-Right Online, Fatal Consequences of USAID Cuts, Drone Strikes on Kyiv
Our round-up of the best in recent data journalism also features stories about fuel smuggling in Mexico, poverty in Nigeria, and typhoons in Hong Kong.
News & Analysis
Nora Gámez Torres, Cuban Journalist in Florida, Wins Maria Moors Cabot Prize
The award-winning reporter was described by the jury as “the most authoritative voice on the island nation in the US media.”
GIJC25 News & Analysis
GIJN Bookshelf: The Malaysia Edit
Headed to GIJC25 in Kuala Lumpur later this year? Here are a dozen books about Malaysia to read before your trip.
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.
GIJC25
‘I’m Not Interested in Giving Readers Easy Answers’: Tracing Current Indigenous Inequities to Systemic Injustices
Tristan Ahtone is an award-winning journalist that has demonstrated the power of using historical archives to expose systemic injustices imposed on Indigenous communities.
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.
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 Methodology
Uncovering the Hidden Environmental and Human Costs of Laos’ Banana and Durian Boom
As part of its Ground Truths collaborative project, a group of Pulitzer Center-sponsored journalists uncovered how foreign agribusiness companies are impacting Laos.
GIJC25
GIJC25 Program Launches — Two Nobel Laureates and African War Crimes Expert Are Featured Speakers
Journalism pioneer Maria Ressa, famed economist Joseph Stiglitz, and UN Rwanda Tribunal prosecutor Charles Adeogun-Phillips headline the top experts on the conference’s program.
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
GIJN Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes
This comprehensive guide includes expert advice from more than two dozen specialists and journalists.
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 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.
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Around the World
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.
Kyrgyzstan Sentences 2 Kloop Journalists to 5 Years in Jail
A Kyrgyz court has sentenced Joomart Duulatov and Aleksandr Aleksandrov, who worked as camera operators for Bishkek-based investigative outlet Kloop, to five years in prison on charges of “calling for mass unrest” for videos produced by exiled investigative journalist Bolot Temirov, founder of Temirov Live. Temirov Live’s director, Makhabat Tajibek Kyzy, was sentenced to six years on the same charges last year. A defense lawyer for Duulatov and Duulatov argued that they didn’t distribute or publish the videos, and Kloop said court experts failed to identify any calls for mass unrest in the videos.
GIJN Joins Journalists from Around the World Speaking Out to Support Press Freedom in Peru
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.
British Intelligence Agency MI5 Admits to Illegally Obtaining Journalist’s Phone Data
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.”
Women in Journalism Runs AI Training Course, Online and In-Person
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.
Yemeni Journalists Killed in Targeted Israeli Airstrike
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."
CPJ Announces Recipients of the 2025 International Press Freedom Awards
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."
JournalismAI Festival 2025 To Take Place in London
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.
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.
10 Questions
Notes from a Small Island: Bernadette Carreon on Covering Palau, the Pacific, and the World
GIJN speaks to the veteran reporter who covered the Pacific region from the small island nation of Palau for more than 20 years.
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.
Data Journalism
Data-Driven Reporting for Investigating the Cultural Sector
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.
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.
Member Profiles
Civio: Data Journalism Pioneer in Spain, Still Pushing For Greater Transparency
The organization has one guiding principle: “Let the data speak.” But sometimes getting hold of the information they need is an uphill battle.
Member Profiles
Fighting for Accountability and Press Freedom in West Africa
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.