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.
Online scams have become borderless threats that evolve rapidly in scale, sophistication, and impact. From fraudsters using the Internet to steal to phishing networks that engage in social engineering and trick individuals, scams are often backed by organized criminal groups that exploit weak law enforcement, jurisdictional loopholes, and digital anonymity.
In this free online workshop, GIJN will convene four experienced African journalists to discuss how to dig out information from repressive regimes and military dictatorships on the continent.
What innovative tools and techniques are shaping the future of data journalism? A special Lightning Round webinar with the 10 winners of the 2025 Sigma Awards, celebrating some of the world’s best data-driven investigations.
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.
Securing sustainable funding for investigative journalism is tougher than ever, with some traditional funding sources shifting and global support shrinking. To help journalism organizations navigate these challenges, GIJN is hosting a webinar on innovative fundraising strategies. This session will offer journalists and media managers practical insights and actionable advice on building financial resilience, so they can keep producing hard-hitting investigative reporting.
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.
Satellite imagery has become a game-changer for investigative journalism, offering powerful tools to uncover hidden stories.
The 2024 elections marked a seismic year for democracies worldwide, presenting investigative journalists with unique challenges and opportunities.
In Africa, more than in most other parts of the world, the hurdles that journalists have to overcome to report beyond their own countries or continent are numerous.
This session was designed to provide investigative journalists with the skills to investigate the arms trade and military aid.
This GIJN webinar dives into the world of shell companies, exploring how investigative journalists can unravel these complex networks.
In this webinar, leading experts explore how journalists can investigate and report on efforts to undermine election certification and restrict voter access.
In this webinar, GIJN hosts a conversation with Clothilde Redfern and Jodi Blankenship, executive director and project manager of Reporters Shield.
Despite the funding and sustainability challenges that watchdog reporting faces today, journalists across Africa are producing top-tier investigative stories.
How to cover illicit money flows, drug trafficking, and environmental crimes originating in Latin America but impacting communities worldwide.
This webinar was designed to equip investigative journalists with the knowledge and tools to enhance their watchdog reporting on Africa’s mining sector.
Three senior investigative journalists shared tips and tools on investigating the conflict in Gaza.
In this GIJN Webinar, three experts share tips, tools, and resources to identify, investigate, and verify potential deepfakes.
In this panel, leading journalists and experts shared perspectives on the impact of digital threats in elections in different continents.
In this panel, leading climate change journalists and experts shared perspectives on the top priorities for investigative journalism on climate change.
This webinar shares methodologies for investigating war and conflict, and provides a briefing on the laws that govern what, in popular usage, are called “war crimes.”
Here, Jane Lytvynenko, investigative reporter and an instructor for GIJN’s Digital Threats course, talks about how to start investigating online manipulation.
Concluding the data track of GIJC23, here’s a discussion on the tools that are coming to the forefront for doing data stories and predictions for what is ahead.
Have you been curious about working with data but haven’t taken that first step? Here’s a great opportunity — we have three of the best data trainers in the biz who know how to get you started. In this introductory session, you’ll learn how to use Google Sheets to do some basic analysis — and […]
In this introductory session, you’ll learn how to use Google Sheets to do basic analysis — and leave with the ability to do quick data work for daily stories or longer-term projects.
Pinpoint is a powerful tool for converting unstructured data (text and other forms of messy data) into datasets that can be analyzed and used for stories.
Cross-border investigative reporting has come far since its early attempts in the 1980s and ’90s by a handful of nonprofits. Today’s projects are multinational efforts involving mainstream media, hundreds of journalists, and tech-savvy data analysis and security systems.
Hundreds of journalists are forced into exile around the world by despots, autocrats, and crime cartels. Exiled editors and émigré media are an old story. But amid the modern backlash against independent media, journalists are taking advantage of a new era in tools and technology. These digital toolkits are proving a game-changer, enabling journalists to better report on their homelands, and their audiences to better access that reporting.
