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Resource Center

GIJN’s Resource Center is here to help journalists expand their knowledge and skills. The Center holds more than 2,000 items in 14 languages – from tip sheets and guides to instructional videos. Use the menu on the right to navigate it or the search box below to find topics you’re interested in.

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GIJN Tech Focus project - A collage featuring a vintage illustration of a woman’s head mapped with labeled sections resembling a phrenology chart. The mapped sections are overlaid by a neutral network diagram– depicting crisscrossing black lines. Two anonymous hands extend from the left side, pulling on two wires from the diagram. In the background is a panel of the Turing Machine with numerous knobs and switches, highlighting a connection between the history of computing, psychology, biology, and artificial intelligence.

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Investigating Disinformation in the Age of AI

In high-velocity information wars, investigative value lies less in disproving every falsehood than in documenting patterns, tactics, and systemic vulnerabilities.

This image features 3 images of a street. Overlying the image are different shapes which are arranged to look like QR code symbols. These are in white/blue colors and intersect one another. The first image is clear, but the second is slightly more pixelated, and the final image is very pixelated.

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Investigating Location-Tracking Surveillance Systems

Phone-location tracking products are increasingly powerful and ubiquitous, but these same systems also offer journalists an opportunity to expose illicit surveillance and harmful procurement.

Building blocks are overlayed with digital squares that highlight people living their day-to-day lives through windows. Some of the squares are accompanied by cursors.

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Making Tech Surveillance a Reporting Beat

While journalists are frequently victims of digital surveillance, they have also turned the scrutiny of spyware and surveillance systems into an investigative beat all of itself.

A brightly coloured illustration which can be viewed in any direction. It has many elements to it working together: men in suits around a table, someone in a data centre, big hands controlling the scenes and holding a phone, people in a production line. Motifs such as network diagrams and melting emojis are placed throughout the busy vignettes. GIJN Tech Focus Project

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Holding the Power of Big Tech Accountable 

Covering AI requires examining the power structures and decisions that shape how these systems are built and deployed, and who ultimately benefits from them.

GIJN Guide to Investigating Foreign Lobbying

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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.

Investigating Fossil Fuels Guide, Lobbying

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Guide to Investigating Fossil Fuels: Lobbying

The chapter explores how fossil fuel companies seek to influence decision-makers and provides advice on uncovering evidence of these efforts and alerting the public.

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GIJC23 – The New Organized Crime

Organized crime today is fluid, transnational, enterprising, and an estimated trillion-dollar industry. To talk about the state of 21st Century organized crime, we have an extraordinary panel of journalists with deep experience reporting on Mexico’s cartels, Italy’s mafias, and Asia’s Golden Triangle

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GIJC23 – Investigating Elections

In this panel we bring together four veteran reporters who have investigated political campaigns and elections around the world.

Researching Corporations

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Researching Corporations and Their Owners

This resource was last updated in 2023 by GIJN’s Toby McIntosh and Emily O’Sullivan. Investigative journalists play a crucial role in holding corporations to account, and have revealed labor abuses, environmental violations, corporate impunity and other instances of malpractice through deep-dives into companies and their owners. However, government records on corporations often reveal only the […]

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GIJC23 – Working with Hackers

Uyghur abuse and internment in China. Luxury properties in Austria owned by Belarus’s oil minister. Criminal exploitation of London’s company services industry. These investigations were all possible because of hacked data dumps. As a journalist, how do you negotiate with hackers or hacktivists? What questions do you ask? What are the ethical considerations? What are […]

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GIJC23 – Investigating Food & Agriculture

There are numerous investigative topics to explore between the farmer’s field and the grocery store – and, indeed, the plate – and several recent projects have exposed abuses in the production, distribution, and access to food. This expert panel offers deep experience in issues from fisheries and pesticides to food security and biodiversity — with journalists based in Tunisia, the UK, the US, and Southeast Asia.

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