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.
This digital book version of our reporting guide, which runs to 133 pages, includes expert analysis and practical advice to enable better investigations of the fossil fuel industry.
In investigative journalism, connecting data points is often key to uncovering the truth. Aleph helps reporters search, organize, and analyze data, to better trace hidden connections.
There is a treasure trove of compelling visual evidence out there that is going unused by many watchdog journalists. Here’s how to find it.
A Pulitzer Center toolkit for illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, which impacts marine ecosystems, coastal communities, food security, and human rights.
Here are the tipsheets and presentations shared by speakers at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in 2023.
Here are the tipsheets and presentations shared by speakers at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in 2021. Data Sessions
Here are the tipsheets and presentations shared by speakers at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in 2019.
Here are the tipsheets and presentations shared by speakers at the Asian Investigative Journalism Conference in 2018.
Here are the tipsheets and presentations shared by speakers at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in 2017.
Here are the tipsheets and presentations shared by speakers at the Asian Investigative Journalism Conference in 2016.
Here are the tipsheets and presentations shared by speakers at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in 2015.
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.
Here are the tipsheets and presentations shared by speakers at the Asian Investigative Journalism Conference in 2014.
Mineral extraction plays a dominant role in many economies and in the lives of billions of people. At what cost?
Here are the tipsheets and presentations shared by speakers at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in 2013.
New sources can help investigative journalists hold to account those responsible for emitting methane gas, a major cause of global warming.
Investigations into what happens on, under, and around the ocean can often be answered thanks to the vast amount of data available online.
Experts agree that AI-driven audio deepfakes could pose a significant threat to democracy and fair elections in 2024.
Featuring overlooked election-digging strategies, go-to open source tools, and a technique for identifying the individuals behind dangerous or hateful campaign sites.
Featuring a broad array of tools, techniques, and resources to help watchdog reporters dig into almost any campaign or election.
This guide is designed to offer a broad array of tools, techniques, and resources to help reporters dig into almost any election or political campaign.
Covering rules and technical trends, such as how voting procedures are changing in different regions and how to spot evidence of foreign interference.
Featuring tools to unearth candidates’ campaign finance histories; tips to connect with key sources; and resources to find hidden assets and red flags.
Containing tips for tracking political conversations, campaign advertisements, and disinformation narratives online.
This webinar shares methodologies for investigating war and conflict, and provide a briefing on the laws that govern what, in popular usage, are called “war crimes.”
People with disabilities are the largest intersectional minority group, according to the UN, and virtually every reporting beat has a disability angle.
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 […]
Open source information can be a valuable method of reporting when investigating violations of international humanitarian law or war crimes.
