GIJN’s Global Academy is your gateway to investigative journalism training. Through masterclass videos, training programs (in person or online), webinars or mentorship programs, the Academy helps journalists at every stage strengthen their investigative skills, connect with peers, and continue learning. Explore our masterclasses below or browse our training programs to find the right path for you.
This asynchronous course is designed for journalists who want to deepen their understanding of climate issues and offers advanced techniques to uncover the climate story through an investigative lens.
Este taller ofrece una introducción práctica y dinámica al uso de la inteligencia artificial aplicada al periodismo de investigación, con un enfoque en potenciar el trabajo con información a gran escala.
This digital training workshop offers a practical introduction to using AI for investigative journalism, focusing on real-world applications like extracting structure from text, cleaning data, and verifying findings.
For the fifth time, GIJN is partnering with renowned journalist Craig Silverman and other cutting-edge experts to offer a free, cyber investigations training program tailored for investigative reporters.
Reporters from around the world will learn how to investigate the digital environment in order to understand and expose disinformation, online attacks, and manipulation.
GIJN offers tailored training programs designed for journalists and newsrooms with specific needs. On-demand courses are fee-based, allowing us to sustainably support our team and trainers while continuing to provide free high-quality investigative journalism training opportunities worldwide.
Back by popular demand, this full-day session with investigative trainer Henk van Ess teaches how to use AI for source discovery and data analysis, stop hallucinations, and prompt more effectively.
This practical, in-depth course will equip journalists with the core skills needed to trace financial flows and uncover the economic forces behind corruption, organized crime, and abuse of power.
This intensive workshop transforms a motivated journalist into their newsroom’s go-to digital security resource, combining threat modeling, hands-on tool practice, and a train-the-trainer approach.
This course, built around collecting both qualitative and quantitative data, digital research, and information extraction, will enable participants to strengthen their investigations and diversify their sources.
In this full-day session, investigative trainer Henk van Ess will teach journalists how to use AI for source discovery and data analysis, stop hallucinations, and prompt effectively without memorizing a single template.
During this session, Henk van Ess introduced new tips, resources, and investigative methods journalists can use to identify AI-generated images in a rapidly evolving tech landscape.
In this online workshop GIJN convenes four experienced African journalists to discuss how to dig out information from repressive regimes, track the tools that these regimes use to subjugate their people, fact check and debunk misinformation and propaganda, and investigate strategic and geopolitical allies that help to keep autocrats in power despite opposition from citizens.
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.
In this GIJN webinar, journalists will learn key strategies for probing the fossil fuel industry, guided by insights from GIJN’s forthcoming Guide to Investigating Fossil Fuels, which was supported by JournalismFund Europe. A panel of expert journalists — all of them chapter authors of the guide — will share their experiences and tools for exposing the industry’s role in the climate crisis, investigating private and state-owned enterprises, analyzing regulatory policies, and evaluating the credibility of proposed climate solutions.
The open source desktop geographic information system software QGIS can be a powerful tool for investigative journalists. This resource takes you from the basics to advanced data mapping.
This reporting guide is designed to help journalists understand the causes of food inequity, famine, and starvation as well as the global agencies and data sources tracking these phenomena.
This guide introduces journalists to valuable information sources for China-focused investigations and demonstrates practical methods for accessing and utilizing key reporting tools.
This guide offers journalists a new detection tool and seven advanced techniques for spotting probable AI-generated content.
Featuring tips, techniques, and best practices for covering the algorithms — and their corresponding impacts — used by tech giants’ social media platforms.
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.
The negative effects from higher temperatures can be seen everywhere, offering many opportunities for investigative journalism.
Knowing how to use spreadsheets is a crucial skill, as it allows you to find potential stories in large amounts of data and to think critically about how to use it.
Knowing where to look for data — and accessing it via scraping data from websites — can be a powerful force multiplier for investigative journalists.
Coming soon
Coming soon
Investigative journalism can be a lonely practice, especially for reporters working in exile or under immense pressure. The GIJN Global Academy will launch a mentorship program connecting experienced investigative journalists with reporters seeking guidance and support.
Whether you are ready to mentor, we invite you to complete this online questionnaire. Your responses will help us build a mentorship database and prepare the launch of the program.
GIJN partners with Academic Institutions and Journalism Training Organizations around the world to collaborate with academics and help support new generations of investigative journalists, as well as practicing journalists. Partnerships focus on supporting development of investigative journalism curricula, resources for academia, as well as special tailored activities such as trainings and events. Email academy@gijn.org, if you are interested in developing a partnership between your university and GIJN.
