GIJN Statement in Support of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
GIJN calls for investigative journalists worldwide to unify and cooperate.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Deadly Protests, Rising Seas, and Investigating Corruption: 2024’s Best Investigations from Bangladesh
Also featuring investigations into UN peacekeepers, population data fudging, and the inadequate academic qualifications of a powerful police chief.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Tracking the Exploitation of Illegal Gold, Human Trafficking, and Government Corruption: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in Spanish
A tour of the year’s best investigations from across Latin America and Spain, where journalists are uncovering stories that impact their communities.
News & Analysis Débuter dans le journalisme d'investigation
Exposer la corruption au Malawi : 10 questions à Golden Matonga
#AfricaFocusWeek Du 18 au 24 novembre 2024, GIJN met en lumière le journalisme d’investigation en Afrique. Dans cette interview “10 questions à”, Benon Herbert Oluka, responsable Afrique subsaharienne de GIJN, s’entretient avec Golden Matonga, responsable des enquêtes de la Plateforme pour le journalisme d’investigation – Malawi, au sujet de sa carrière dans la lutte contre la corruption.
10 Questions Africa Focus
Fighting a ‘Scourge of Secrecy’ and Uncovering Corruption in Malawi
GIJN’s Benon Herbert Oluka talks to Golden Matonga, investigations director at the Platform for Investigative Journalism – Malawi, about his career uncovering corruption.
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International Anti-Corruption Conference 2024
18–21 June 2024
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Updated GIJN Databases (Poverty, Crime, Corruption, and Terrorism)
GIJN has released its final batch of updated databases, re-publishing our resource lists on poverty, crime, corruption, and terrorism.
Database Resource
Resources on Corruption
Featuring tools from OCCRP and Transparency International, plus the OpenCorporates database, this list contains key resources for reporters investigating corruption.
10 Questions
Despite Detention and Forced Deportation, Still Investigating High-Level Corruption in Kyrgyzstan
Bolot Temirov has led fact-checking and investigative journalism efforts to uncover high-level corruption inside Kyrgyzstan.
How They Did It
Investigating Corruption and the ‘Tanker Mafias’ in Karachi’s Water Supply Chain
The team that dug into Karachi’s water supply crisis shares insights from their reporting — and the challenges of doing investigative journalism in Pakistan’s largest city.
Document of the Day News & Analysis
Report: Weakening Justice Systems Allow Corruption to Thrive Globally
Transparency International released its 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index, which found that more than two-thirds of countries worldwide suffer from serious corruption issues.
News & Analysis Sustainability
How News Site Daraj Reports on Women’s Rights and Corruption across the Middle East
Daraj co-founder Diana Moukalled discusses the outlet’s origins in Lebanon, its impact, its funding, and reporting on women’s rights and corruption across the Middle East.
Reporting Tools & Tips
My Favorite Tools: El Salvador’s Jimmy Alvarado on Exposing Corruption
El Faro investigative journalist Jimmy Alvarado offers his favorite tools and techniques for exposing corruption.
News & Analysis
Investigations into Lottery Corruption, Whistleblower’s Assassination Share Taco Kuiper Journalism Prize
Separate investigations into corruption at the national lottery and the brazen assassination of a government whistleblower jointly won the 2022 Taco Kuiper Award, recognizing the best of watchdog reporting in South Africa.
Case Studies News & Analysis
Refugee Pushbacks, Uyghur Mistreatment, and Sports Corruption: Europe’s Cross-Border Investigative Journalism Winners
Investigations on topics as diverse as corruption in sports, illegal “pushbacks” of refugees, and the mass internment of Uyghurs in China were recognized at the IJ4EU Impact Awards, the annual prize of the Investigative Journalism for Europe fund.
News & Analysis
Annual Transparency Index Links Corruption with Increased Violence Globally
GIJN’s Document of the Day: The 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) from Transparency International concludes that 95% of countries have made little to no progress fighting corruption since 2017, and notes the link between corruption and increased violence around the world.
Case Studies
#NotebookGate: How Nigeria’s Dataphyte Exposed Corruption in Government Contracts
How investigative journalist Olanrewaju Oyedeji, from Nigeria’s Dataphyte, exposed corruption in government notebook contracts by analyzing data from the state’s online procurement portal.
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Video Resources for Investigating Organized Crime and Corruption
To share investigative best practices and other lessons learned from our most recent conference, GIJC21, we are releasing a series of videos from the event’s many seminars, panels, and workshops. The first installment in this series focuses on how investigative reporters can better dig into organized crime and corruption around the world.
News & Analysis
Document of the Day: US Global Anti-Corruption Plan Spotlights Value of Investigative Journalism
The Biden White House spotlighted its support for investigative journalism as part of a new strategy for fighting corruption around the world. To strengthen the investigative capacity of journalists, it is funding the USAID’s PROSAFE project, helping to “create a regional clearinghouse for investigative journalism that provides a publishing outlet for stories too dangerous to be published with an individual byline, and providing an umbrella organization for security, mentoring, and collaboration among journalists.”
Reporting Tools & Tips
Tips for Investigating When Governments Shield Crime and Corruption
In a session on high-level corruption at #GIJC21, a panel of reporters from Liberia, Ukraine, Sudan, Russia, and Lebanon suggested a series of strategies that can pry facts from obstinate government agencies, find whistleblowers, and deliver alternate forms of accountability for officials seemingly above the law.
Data Journalism
Data Journalism Top 10: The Taliban’s March, Border Walls Quadruple, Kenyan Corruption, White Men Like the Office
Two decades after US-led troops invaded Afghanistan to topple the Taliban regime, the organization has retaken control of the country. Our NodeXL mapping from August 9 to 15, found an animated map by the Financial Times showing how the Taliban captured various districts across the country before surging into the capital Kabul earlier this week. In this edition, we also feature an investigation into America’s diabetes crisis by Reuters, a look into Lionel Messi’s legacy at Barcelona by The Economist, and a piece on the history of data journalism by the Guardian.
Safety & Security
Pegasus Project Reveals Added Risks for Corruption Reporters
The digital security risk to investigative journalism was reaffirmed this month with the release of the Pegasus Project. This involved collaborative reporting by 17 global media outlets on a list of thousands of leaked phone numbers allegedly selected for possible surveillance by government clients of Israeli firm NSO Group. At least 180 journalists are implicated as targets. It also sheds light on four chilling cases profile here.
News & Analysis
Insider Access to Chinese Vaccines: A Case Study in Pandemic Corruption from Peru
In a scandal known as ‘Vacunagate,’ 487 influential people in Peru, including its president, were secretly inoculated against COVID-19 months before vaccines were approved for the public. Two investigative newsrooms in Peru found that Chinese drug makers had secretly sent thousands of ‘courtesy’ vaccine doses to several countries in South America in addition to the doses needed for clinical trials there. Editors from both told GIJN how reporters can tackle this new form of corruption.
News & Analysis
What To Watch: 5 Anti-Corruption Documentaries from Films for Transparency
The pandemic has seen film festivals around the world go virtual, including Transparency International’s Films For Transparency. Here are five of our favorites from the anti-corruption documentaries that made it onto their shortlist.
News & Analysis
Calculating Corruption: Peru’s Ojo Público Creates Tool to Gauge Contracting Risks
The Peruvian investigative journalism association Ojo Público – a GIJN member — has created a new tool to investigate government contracts. In this piece, data journalist Romina Colman explores what the tool, which is called FUNES, can do and who can use it.
News & Analysis
What We’re Reading: Google Mobility Reports, Pegasus Spyware for Virus Tracking, Justice for Jan Kuciak, COVID Corruption
This week’s Friday 5, where we round up our favorite reads from around the online world in English, includes the launch of Google’s Community Mobility Reports that track social distancing trends in 131 countries, how the group behind Pegasus spyware created software for COVID-19, and news that the man who murdered investigative journalist Jan Kuciak was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
News & Analysis
Donor’s ‘Big Bet’ on Nigerian Anti-Corruption Reporting Could Be Game-Changer
Nigeria has a stubborn legacy of corruption that dates back decades. The MacArthur Foundation is investing some $67 million in investigative journalism, transparency, and good governance in the country — an ambitious experiment that could serve as a model for other states plagued by corruption.
News & Analysis
Document of the Day: The Corruption Expert Accused of Laundering $2.5 Million
US professor Bruce Bagley was frequently quoted by media outlets as an expert on corruption. But according to federal prosecutors, he also put his expertise into practice. They announced that he was arrested on money laundering charges last week.