Getting the Story Out
Expert Tips for Editing Investigative Podcasts
In a session on editing investigative podcasts at IRE26, veteran audio journalists offered several key lessons for producers and reporters new to investigative podcasts.
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The Black Sea: How Investigative Journalism Endures in Turkey
The investigative outlet focusing on the Black Sea region and Turkey is not quite exiled media, not quite traditional newsroom, but a collaborative group focused on abuses of power.
Investigative Techniques Reporting Tools & Tips
Listen Up: Podcasts for Investigative Journalists
We have rounded up the podcasts that go behind the scenes of major exposés, in which reporters dive into how they did their investigations or offer tips for journalists in similar fields.
Climate Data Journalism
Turning the Threat to a Distant Glacier into a Local Story Through Data Visualization
New York Times climate and environmental graphics reporter Mira Rojanasakul discusses how her team visualized the sea level rise threat from the melting Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Exiled Journalists’ Tips for Source Protection and Avoiding ‘Propaganda Creep’
Veteran exiled journalists from Iran, Venezuela, and Tibet discuss source protection best practices and publishing survival strategies when reporting on your home country from afar.
News & Analysis
Women and LGBTQ+ People in Investigative Journalism: Challenges, Strategies, and What’s Next?
At a 2026 Netzwerk Recherche conference panel, participants discussed their struggles and successes working as women and LGBTQ individuals in investigative journalism.
Data Journalism
One Name at a Time: How Die Zeit Built a Searchable Database of Nazi Party Members
An online tool set up by the German newspaper Die Zeit, in cooperation with archives in Germany and in the United States, allows people to search several million Nazi Party membership cards.
How They Did It News & Analysis
Building a Multi-Agent AI System To Sift Through Thousands of Russian Social Media Posts
The system built by BBC Eye allowed a team of open source specialists and reporters to accelerate their investigation of Russian ultra nationalists and their political impact.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Tips to Investigate Links Between Pesticide and Cancer
At the 2026 IRE conference, veteran reporters shared tips on how to get around the problems of causation and toxicology jargon in data-driven investigations about pesticide exposure.
GIJN Co-Hosts International Journalists at IRE26 Luncheon
GIJN co-hosted journalists from nearly two-dozen countries and territories at an International Luncheon at the 2026 IRE Conference outside Washington, DC.
Data Journalism Top 10
Visualizing a Trillion Dollars, India’s Warming Cities, Russian Mercenaries at Sea, and World Cup Player Physiques
Also highlighting how films portray Ukrainians, increasing tree cover in Spain, and how couples meet.
GIJN Toolbox
New Tools for Tracking US Migrant Detention Centers and Illicit Dual-Use Exports for Russian War Effort
We profile two new, free-access databases made for investigative journalists that provide hard-to-find accountability evidence on pressing harms.
Case Studies
‘Life or Death’: Inside ICIJ’s Cancer Calculus Investigation
A recent cross-border investigation examines how aggressive drug pricing and patent strategies drive up costs and limit patient access to a life-saving cancer treatment worldwide.
Data Journalism
How The Washington Post Combined Data and Human Stories to Cover Hurricane Helene’s Aftermath
From Storybench, Washington Post climate reporter Brady Dennis is interviewed about his immersive story on Hurricane Helene and the importance of combining data and human experience.
Data Journalism
Mexico Scrapped Its Transparency Agency — Journalists Are Still Investigating Corruption
A year after Mexico dissolved the autonomous body that oversaw government transparency, journalists are still finding ways to access public documents and conduct data-based investigations.
How They Did It
New York Times’ Hannah Dreier on Wildland Firefighters and the Deadly Smoke Risks They Face
The recipient of the 2026 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting discusses how she conducted her award-winning investigation on maskless wildland firefighters.
News & Analysis
Spies, Lies, and ‘Dirty Water’: Q&A with Austria’s Newest Investigative Team
GIJN talks with the investigative team at JETZT, a new Vienna-based independent newsroom that covers everything from Alpine real estate to Russian espionage.
Data Journalism Top 10
‘Super’ El Niño Threat, Myanmar Villages Razed, California’s Billionaire Tax Bill, and South Africa’s Murder Rate
Also highlighting exploitation of journalists in Egypt, Argentina’s returning World Cup squad, and the strain on Singapore’s aging caregivers.
Distribution & Promotion
Translating Investigative Journalism into Platform-Native Storytelling
How do you take a complex, months-long investigation and reach fast-scrolling readers without losing credibility? Craft promotional material that fits each social media platform’s audience and voice.
How They Did It
Behind the Story: How Two Reporters Uncovered Deep-Sea Mining Secrets
A Pulitzer Center fellow and CNN senior reporter followed the development of the nascent deep-sea mining industry and how it’s intertwined with defense priorities in the US and China.
Inside GIJN
GIJN Welcomes 10 New Members, from Turkey to the DRC
New members include two exiled newsrooms; three outlets with a major focus on the environment and climate change; and several organizations that dig into organized crime and human rights violations.
Member Profiles
Tansa: Pioneering a New Model for Investigative Journalism in Japan
Over the past decade, the nonprofit Tokyo Investigative Newsroom has published numerous longform exposés on issues ranging from gender, health, politics, and the environment.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
When the Story Is Canceled: 8 Practical Tips from RightsCon and World Press Freedom Day
When RightsCon 2026 in Zambia was abruptly cancelled, the story at its companion World Press Freedom Day conference shifted from panel coverage to a real-time lesson in access and government power.
How They Did It
Uncovering the Transnational Networks Behind a Women’s Right-Wing Extremist Group in Germany
How an investigative documentary revealed that the German women’s group Lukreta is part of a Europe-wide far-right network with links all the way to the European Parliament.
News & Analysis
Four Lessons for Journalists from Patrick Radden Keefe’s Latest Book, ‘London Falling’
The latest book from The New Yorker staff writer delves into the life of 19-year-old Zac Brettler, who led a secret double life in London before plunging to his death from an apartment balcony into the River Thames in 2019.
Data Journalism Top 10
Rare Earth Rivalry, Falling Birth Rates, Violence in the Sahel, and 70 Years of Eurovision Lyrics
Also highlighting China’s squid fishing fleet off Argentina, how redistricting is shaping America’s midterms, and why 2.1 billion people still lack safe drinking water.
Climate
Popular Myths About Climate Adaptation Journalists Should Know
Adaptation is not a substitute for mitigation. Cutting emissions remains indispensable to preventing the worst outcomes of climate change.