GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Humanizing without Sensationalizing: Investigating Femicide
How can journalists use data without reducing the murder of women to crime statistics, and produce a narrative that humanizes without sensationalizing?
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Getting the Story Out GIJC23
Going Multilingual — The New Frontier of Podcasting?
The global boom in audio streaming offers an opportunity for investigative journalists to reach wider audiences by developing multilingual translations of their podcasts.
10 Questions Teaching & Training
From Korea to the US: A Career Spent Investigating Fraud, Wrongdoing, and Now, AI
Boyoung Lim went from police officer to investigative reporter to head of the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network — a career trajectory neither linear nor planned.
Case Studies Data Journalism GIJC23
Data-Driven Journalism: Roundup of Recent Standout Stories
The best of modern data journalism tells powerful stories that test assumptions. At GIJC23, two experts discussed strong recent investigations and what makes them stand out.
Data Journalism GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Tips to Guide Investigative Journalists in Document Text Analysis
Investigative journalists often face the challenge of reviewing and combining large documents or data in text forms. This can be very exhausting and labor intensive.
Case Studies GIJC23
GIJN’s Top 10 Stories of 2023
A curated list of 10 notable GIJN articles from this past year — a mix of our most popular stories, great reads, data journalism best practices, and game-changing reporting tips.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Working With Hackers: Where — and How — Journalists Should Use These Sources
The use of hacked data is an ethical challenge for investigative journalists. But responsible use of this information can lead to public interest revelations that would otherwise stay hidden.
Reporting Tools & Tips
GIJN’s Top 10 Investigative Tools of 2023
Having flagged the top tips at NICAR23, IRE23, and GIJC23 in Sweden, GIJN offers the following 10 user-friendly tools that you might consider in your next investigations.
Data Journalism Top 10
Extrajudicial Killings in Bangladesh, Israel-Palestine Protests, China’s Maritime Footprint
Featuring stories on extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh, protests about the Israel-Gaza conflict, China’s global maritime footprint, and a memoriam for Philip Meyer, a pioneer of data-driven journalism.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Tips for Better FOIA Requests: Taking Right-to-Information Access to the Next Level
Many reporters rely on FOIA requests and RTI legislation for their investigations. But how do you take these requests to the next level?
GIJC23 Legal Defense & Emergency Aid Press Freedom
How Journalists Can Protect Against Slapp Cases and Other Legal Threats
How journalists can identify whether they’ve been hit with a SLAPP suit — and resources for helping journalists fight back.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Unleashing the Power of Social Network Analysis for Investigative Journalism
Social Network Analysis (SNA) enables investigative journalists to connect the dots that can lead to groundbreaking revelations and expose deep-seated wrongdoing.
GIJN Resource Center’s Top Guides and Tipsheets from 2023
GIJN’s Resource Center presents a selection of our top reporting guides and tipsheets from 2023, from tracking climate change accountability to investigating war crimes.
Data Journalism GIJC23
Expert Tips for Journalists on Building Your Own Datasets
What do you do when you don’t get the dataset you need from authorities, or it doesn’t exist? Two experts provided tips at GIJC23.
Inside GIJN
After Gothenburg: Call for Proposals for GIJC25 and GIJC27
GIJN is now accepting simultaneous proposals to host its next two Global Investigative Journalism Conferences in 2025 and in 2027.
News & Analysis
2023 Double Exposure Festival Highlights the Global Fight Against Authoritarian Oppression
The DX film festival showcased investigations documenting challenges to democratic ideals and human rights around the world.
Document of the Day
GIJN Joins Paris Charter on AI and Journalism
GIJN joined with 16 other media partners to draft a charter and 10 principles for using AI in newsrooms and investigative reporting.
Awards, Grants, & Fellowships GIJC23
Global Ripple Effect: How GIJC23 Impacted GIJN Fellows Around the World
At GIJC23, GIJN sponsored more than 100 fellows from dozens of developing and transitioning countries.
Case Studies How They Did It
How One Nigerian Journalist on a Motorcycle Exposed Armed Warlords
Yusuf Anka spent three years riding into and out of dangerous territory in northwestern Nigeria, investigating armed gangs plaguing his home region.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Who’s Behind That Internet Ad?: Tips for Investigating Online Advertising
Global internet advertising revenue is forecast to reach $723.6 billion in 2026. Who makes this money and how they go about it is fertile ground for investigative journalists.
Data Journalism Top 10
Gaza Victims, Tracking Maui’s Inferno, Haiti’s Gangs, and the UK Housing Crisis
Our roundup features stories about airstrikes in Gaza, Haiti’s gang problem, carbon “bombs,” and blocking ChatGPT crawlers.
Teaching & Training
25 Journalists Selected for GIJN’s Second Digital Threats Training Course
This week, the second cohort of GIJN’s six-week, online Digital Threats course begins, training 25 journalists from 22 countries around the world.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Waste, Fraud, Abuse: Covering the Environmental Crime Beat
Journalists share stories and tips from their investigations into environmental crimes, from deforestation in the Congo to the Beirut port blast.
GIJC23 Sustainability
Tips for Building Sustainable Business Strategies
Media outlets are now more than ever looking for innovative digital strategies to reach and engage audiences as well as remain sustainable.
GIJC23
8 Tips for Upping Your Game as Investigative Editor
Great investigative editors make stories stronger, protect and motivate reporters, and make investigations more efficient.
How They Did It Reporting Tools & Tips
Behind-the-Scenes of the Washington Post’s Investigation Into a 40-Year-Old Grenadian Mystery
Jeff Leen, the head of investigations at the Post for the past 20 years, speaks about their latest podcast and how the outlet tackles in-depth stories.
Tipsheet Data Journalism GIJC23
No Coding Required: A Step-by-Step Guide to Scraping Websites With Data Miner
Knowing where to look for data — and accessing it via scraping data from websites — can be a powerful force multiplier for investigative journalists.
10 Questions GIJC23
Reporting and Sharing Women’s Stories in the Face of Taliban Oppression
Working as a journalist in Afghanistan has never been harder, but it’s a chance to resist the Taliban’s oppression of women’s rights, says the founder of Zan Times.