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.
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.
There is a central tension facing investigative journalists: the “AI and tech paradox.” Explore our report on the most urgent technology-related challenges facing investigative journalism today.
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.
This guide equips journalists with the tools and resources to report on conflicts over land and its resources, such as water and forests.
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 caste issues is crucial for understanding India’s socioeconomic dynamics and addressing systemic inequalities.
This guide provides watchdog journalists with key context and practical advice to enable better investigations of the fossil fuel industry.
This encyclopedia from The Outlaw Ocean Project offers pointers for investigating ocean crimes and concerns.
Read our updated guide to reporting on health and medicine, featuring lessons learned from covering the coronavirus outbreak.
Featuring advice on fact checking, digital security tips, interview techniques, and guidelines for editors.
The comprehensive guide offers detailed advice on managing the non-investigative aspects of collaborative projects.
The negative effects from higher temperatures can be seen everywhere, offering many opportunities for investigative journalism.
Mineral extraction plays a dominant role in many economies and in the lives of billions of people. At what cost?
Featuring a broad array of tools, techniques, and resources to help watchdog reporters dig into almost any campaign or election.
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 […]
Online research expert Henk van Ess has created a seven-chapter guide that offers reporters step-by-step instructions on how to use social media search to perform investigations of people and subjects and he’s also created a detailed tutorial on using facial recognition technology and best practices for putting these tools together in verifying claims online.
Featuring expert advice from journalists and security analysts who are working to combat disinformation, malware, spyware, and trolling. The guide is part of an ongoing Digital Threats project, in which GIJN is working with Craig Silverman and a group of cutting-edge specialists to offer a unique cyber investigations online training program specifically tailored for investigative […]
Satellite images are powerful tools for discovery and analysis, plus provide vivid illustrations. Discover GIJN’s favorite resources.
This comprehensive guide includes expert advice from more than two dozen specialists and journalists.
The global fight against climate change depends on the actions of individual nations — so national accountability is critical.
Required disclosures by public officials about their income and assets can be invaluable to investigative journalists. And information about wealth and its sources can play a vital role in uncovering corruption. Official filings are often the starting point for classic follow-the-money stories. However, disclosure laws have gaps, so the public records don’t always reveal the […]
In this reporting guide we’ve included some of the various definitions of disability, important resources, and key issues for journalists to investigate.
Investigative journalists have long used information about airplanes to uncover corruption, follow wars, track government officials, and point out the levels of greenhouse gases emitted. GIJN has now revised and updated its reporting guide to planespotting and tracking flights around the world.
