Our round-up of the best in recent data journalism also features stories from Japan, Nigeria, Gaza, and Namibia.
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 program lineup of more than 300 speakers will include the best in the business: award winners, data gurus, innovative editors, and experts on urgent investigative topics.
The changes represent a methodological overhaul of the initiative, which launched in 2018 and now brings together 42 media outlets from different parts of Brazil that work collaboratively.
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.
The organization has one guiding principle: “Let the data speak.” But sometimes getting hold of the information they need is an uphill battle.
The 13th edition of the Gabo Festival highlighted some of the most urgent challenges facing journalism today, particularly in Latin America.
As oligarchs and populist governments ratchet back the gathering and dissemination of climate-related information, journalists can use these techniques to find relevant sources and track impact.
A behind the scenes look at how reporters investigated how thousands of people have been unjustly excluded from Peru’s pension program due to flaws in the poverty classification system.
A dedicated mental health helpline for journalists facing anxiety, stress, and burnout was a long time coming. Can it survive?
Our round-up of the best in recent data journalism also features stories from Southeast Asia and Gaza.
From the Philippines to the UK, a number of major newsrooms have created their own AI chatbots designed to respond using only that site’s trusted reporting archive and vetted databases as source material.
GIJN speaks to a Nigerian journalist about how she uncovered how banned pesticides are still exported and sold in Africa.
With a little research and negotiation, reporters can slash the cost of obtaining records bundles and speed up the government’s response in the process.
This comprehensive guide includes expert advice from more than two dozen specialists and journalists.
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This guide offers reporting best practices, key resources as well as what questions to ask when investigating methane emissions from landfills and how to reduce them.
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The Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network (ORN) creates a “collaborative ecosystem” of journalists around the world that uncover harmful and illegal practices related to the ocean — such as fishing and extractive industries and systemic threats to marine biodiversity and coastal communities. The Pulitzer Center is now accepting applications for the next cohort of ORN fellows. At least nine journalists with a proven track record of environmental investigations will be selected for the remote program. The year-long fellowship will cover a reporter’s salary for the duration. The deadline to apply is September 12, 2025.
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA), Proyecto Desconfío (Argentina), and Fundación para el Periodismo (Bolivia) have announced that registration is now open for the fifth edition of the 2025 Global Summit on Disinformation. It will be held on September 17 and 18, online and free of charge. The summit brings together journalists, researchers, technologists, educators, and organizations to focus on the effects of disinformation on democracy and news quality, as well as the impact of AI. The summit will feature thematic panels, case studies, workshops, and networking spaces with international leaders working in information, technology, and AI.
Several Al Jazeera journalists were among the casualties of an Israeli airstrike on a tent near Shifa Hospital in eastern Gaza City on August 10. Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, along with photojournalists Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, and Mohammed Noufa were killed, along with a local freelance reporter Mohammad Al-Khaldi. Israel's military said it targeted Anas Al Sharif — alleging he had headed a Hamas cell and was involved in rocket attacks against Israel. Al Jazeera disputed this claim, and the UN and journalists’ groups denounced the killings. Al Sharif was part of a Reuters team that won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.
A court in the Georgian city of Batumi has given journalist Mzia Amaglobeli — the founder of online media outlets Batumelebi and Netgazeti — a two-year prison sentence for slapping a police chief in a heated encounter during nationwide protests in January 2025, after Georgia's ruling party halted EU accession talks. Press freedom groups condemned as being “disproportionate and politically motivated.” A joint statement by 24 Western diplomatic missions, including European Union countries, Canada, and the UK, condemned Amaglobeli's sentencing and the Georgian government's "escalating intimidation of journalists.”
The International Center for Journalists is offering full scholarships for international data and investigative reporters to attend the data journalism training program at the University of Maryland’s Howard Center for Investigative Journalism. Applicants need to have at least five years of experience. If selected, recipients will have six months to participate in four online courses and a final project, and participate in virtual discussions with experts and fellow international journalists. Journalists from around the world (excluding the US) are eligible, as are freelance journalists. The application deadline is August 10, 2025.
Applications are now open for the Next-IJ Cross-Border Investigative Training in September 2025, for mid-career investigative journalists based in Europe who want to sharpen their skills with cross-border investigative training. The full-day training will take place on September 20, 2025, delivered by investigative experts from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and Transcrime — Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. The training focuses on the latest techniques, tools, and cross-border strategies used in real-world investigations. The application deadline is September 1, 2025.
Global investigative site Forbidden Stories has partnered with a consortium of other news organizations — Cuestión Publica (Colombia), Revista Piauí (Brazil), La Nación (Argentina), La Diaría (Uruguay), IRPI (Italy), DDoSecrets, and ABC Color Group (Paraguay) — to launch Alianza Paraguay, a new project looking into lawlessness and illicit activity along the border region between Paraguay and Brazil. The investigation delves into how organized crime has run rampant in the area as well as the 21 journalists who have been killed there in the past three decades.
The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) Courage in Journalism Awards honor women who have reported under duress. The 2025 recipients are Sana Atef, who works under a pseudonym in Afghanistan; Juliana Dal Piva, a Brazilian investigative journalist; Yousra Elbagir, a Sudanese-British broadcast journalist; and US-Mexican news founder Maritza L. Félix. Azerbaijani journalist Aynur Elgunesh received the 2025 Wallis Annenberg Justice for Women Journalists Award, which honors a journalist unjustly detained, jailed, or imprisoned. “In a time when press freedom is under siege, the courage of these women cuts through silence and fear,” said IWMF Executive Director Elisa Lees Muñoz.
Seven journalists from Abzas Media and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) were sentenced to lengthy prison terms in a court in Baku, Azerbaijan. The group, which included Abzas Media's director, Ulvi Hasanli, and editor-in-chief, Sevinc Vagifgizi, were accused of numerous crimes and operating as an "organize group" in retaliation for their reporting. The charges included smuggling, illegal entrepreneurship, money laundering, tax evasion, forgery, and use of false documents. Vagifgizi said that the corruption investigations Abzas Media published involving top officials and members of the Azerbaijan president’s family were the real reason behind the criminal charges. Hasanli added: “We have lost our freedom for the sake of free speech and independent media."
The Bertha Foundation, which supports activists, lawyers, and storytellers around the world with funding opportunities for those fighting injustice, is accepting candidates for the Bertha Challenge, a fellowship program that enables in-depth investigations into one pressing social issue. For the 2026 challenge, investigative journalists and activists will spend one year focusing on protecting democratic accountability. The fellowship comes with a stipend of up to US$64,900, project funding of up to US$10,000, and a “connect fund” of up to US$5,000 to encourage collaboration, training, mentorship, and networking. The deadline is July 28, 2025.
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.
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.
After five years and 2,875 project entries from more than 100 countries, the Sigma Awards have become a catalyst for innovation and forever changed the face of data journalism.
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.
The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, a GIJN founding member, has grown from a one-room news startup 36 years ago to a seminal force for watchdog reporting.
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.
