News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
Tips From — And For — Women Investigative Journalists Reporting on 2024 Elections
GIJN’s global team spoke with women investigative journalists about their election coverage best practices.
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Updated GIJN Databases (Migration, Business and Trade, Food and Agriculture, Health and Medicine)
GIJN has released its first batch of updated databases, re-publishing our resource lists on migration, business and trade, food and agriculture, and health and medicine.
News & Analysis Sustainability
‘Theater, Fact-Checked:’ Investigative Journalism on Stage
Collaborating with Vienna’s Volkstheater, Austrian investigative outlet Dossier is bringing its reporting to the stage.
Teaching & Training
Digital Threats: Third Cyber Investigations Training Course
In GIJN’s digital threats training course, reporters from around the world will learn how to investigate the digital environment in order to understand and expose disinformation, online attacks, and manipulation.
Data Journalism Data Journalism Top 10
Trump’s Disappearing Donors, Tracking the Mars Rover, and the Ongoing Wars in Gaza and Ukraine
Our column of the best in data journalism also features stories on AI’s ability to forecast the weather, analyzing the Argentine president’s Tweetstorms, and apathetic EU voters.
Document of the Day
Election Manipulation and Armed Conflict in 2023 Lead to Decline in ‘Global Freedom’— Freedom House
The US-based nonprofit Freedom House has released its annual assessment of global freedom and democracy.
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.
10 Questions Sustainability
‘Exercising a Counterpower Role Brings Threats’: Advice from the Colombian Investigative Journalist Diana Salinas
Diana Salinas is committed to uncovering wrongdoing and empowering more women to follow in her footsteps.
Tipsheet Investigative Techniques Reporting Tools & Tips Research
How to Identify and Investigate AI Audio Deepfakes, a Major 2024 Election Threat
Experts agree that AI-driven audio deepfakes could pose a significant threat to democracy and fair elections in 2024.
Data Journalism
Updating the Inverted Pyramid of Data Journalism
Data journalist and instructor Paul Bradshaw has updated the Inverted Pyramid of Data Journalism — and brought together resources for every stage.
News & Analysis
How Tech Platforms Are Suffocating Watchdog Journalism in Russia and Around the World
Publications like Russia’s The Insider have found their investigative reporting caught between state censorship and hostile online platform dynamics.
Investigative Techniques Reporting Tools & Tips
How Journalists Can Practice Self-Care When Investigating Graphic Visuals from War and Conflict
Open source experts are faced with torrents of graphic visuals. So how can journalists protect themselves against harm from incessantly viewing traumatic imagery?
Data Journalism Methodology
Unlocking the Secrets of Algorithms: Q & A with Investigative Data Journalist Leon Yin
The investigative data journalist touches on his work interrogating social media algorithms and how reporters can determine what is a worthwhile story to pursue.
GIJC27
After Gothenburg: Call for Proposals for GIJC27 Extended
GIJN has extended the deadline to May 15, 2024 for proposals to host the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in 2027.
Data Journalism Top 10
Stolen US Indigenous Land, Mapping Red Sea Attacks, Amazon Deforestation, and the Global Motherhood Penalty
Data looks into illicit land grabbing in Hong Kong the boom in Carnival tourism in Brazil, and more.
Inside GIJN
From Croatia to Uganda: GIJN Welcomes Six New Member Organizations
Among our new members, a media training outlet in Uganda – GIJN’s first from the country — a UK-based newsroom investigating land use, and a Russian unit working in exile.
Fundraising Sustainability
Crowdfunding Investigations: Lessons Learned About Harnessing Audience Buy-In from Ireland, Brazil, and Portugal
GIJN spoke with three newsrooms pioneering models for raising funds directly from their audiences.
How They Did It
Going Undercover to Reveal a Secret Meeting of Germany’s Far-Right
Behind the scenes of the blockbuster CORRECTIV investigation that revealed a disturbing far right ‘master plan’ to expel millions of people from Germany.
How They Did It
How They Did It: Investigating the Online Trade in Sexual Assault Videos in East Asia
GIJN spoke to journalists behind ‘Catching a Pervert,’ BBC Eye’s year-long investigation into the people profiting from the public sexual abuse of women.
Data Journalism Top 10
Global Trade and the Suez Canal Problem, Trump’s Busy Calendar, and Europe’s Veer to the Right
This edition also features stories on satellites and the “new space race,” China’s missing overseas tourists, and using AI to communicate with animals.
10 Questions
An Unexpected Journey: Sports TV Host to Investigative Journalist and Star African Correspondent
Philip Obaji Jr has— often at great risk — reported on Boko Haram, human trafficking, and Russian activities in Africa.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Surge of Violence in Ecuador Threatens Accountability Journalism
The investigative reporter Paúl Mena Mena speaks about the worsening security crisis in Ecuador.
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
Global Tour of Investigative Podcasts: 2023 Edition
Our annual round-up of audio delights, as reviewed by GIJN’s global team. Featuring stories from US, Mexico, France, Germany, and the UK.
Awards, Grants, & Fellowships Data Journalism
Q & A with Sigma Awards Executive Director Marianne Bouchart
Sigma Awards executive director talks with GIJN on how the data journalism has evolved and where it’s likely to go next.
Case Studies Climate
How Collaboration Exposed Impacts of Wildfire Pollution-Reporting Rules
A legal loophole in the Clean Air Act allows air pollution to be erased from EPA statistics and regulatory decisions if the pollution was caused by “natural” or “uncontrollable” events.
Reporting Tools & Tips
How to Cover Academic Research Fraud and Errors
Tips from three experts who have covered research misconduct or have hands-on experience monitoring or detecting it.
Investigative Techniques Reporting Tools & Tips
Finding US Records to Pursue Cross-Border Investigations
A guide to some US government data sources that can help foreign and US journalists covering US wars, arms sales, and the impact of US foreign policy.