GIJN Hosts International Journalists at 2022 IRE Conference
GIJN hosted a networking event and luncheon for dozens of international journalists at the 2022 Investigative Reporters & Editors conference in Denver, Colorado.
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Who Was Behind the Killing of Sri Lankan Journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge?
The renowned Sri Lankan journalist was driving to his office when motorcycle riders stopped his car and bludgeoned him to death in broad daylight on the streets of Colombo in 2009. Now, a former detective who ran an official probe into the attack has given new testimony, raising questions about who may have been complicit in the killing.
Methodology Reporting Tools & Tips
Investigative Masterclass: Tips from Mediapart’s Fabrice Arfi
Mediapart’s co-director of investigations, self-taught journalist Fabrice Arfi, offers his tips and best practices for educating oneself, cultivating sources, confronting targets fairly, and avoiding legal trouble.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Data Journalism Top 10: Abortion Ban Burdens, China Surveillance, Heat Wave Threats, and Russia’s Degraded Army
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism looks at the impact of the Dobbs US Supreme Court ruling on travel time for women seeking an abortion in the US, China’s intensifying surveillance on its population, the impact of heat waves on fragile populations in Germany, the state of the Russian army after four months of war, and the gender inequity in speeches in the Zurich Parliament.
News & Analysis Research
Tracking Environmental Crimes During the War in Ukraine
Amid Ukraine’s whole-of-society wartime reorganization, experts and activists are using their skills to track the impact of the conflict on the country’s national parks and biospheres and to document possible environmental war crimes.
Case Studies Reporting Tools & Tips
How the Financial Times Exposed a Billion-Dollar Fraud
How do you tackle a fraudulent blue-chip corporation that has the means to deploy teams of lawyers, private investigators, hackers, and even foreign spies to stop your investigation? Dan McCrum, an investigative reporter at the Financial Times, told GIJN how he took down a fraudulent $30 billion company, and offered tips on how reporters can tackle bad actors with almost unlimited resources.
News & Analysis
Gina Chua on How to Reach Underserved Communities: Journalism For – Not About – Them
Gina Chua’s keynote address to the IRE22 conference in Denver, in the US, emphasized how rebuilding public trust in investigative journalism requires a diverse workforce that truly represents and engages with the communities it serves.
Methodology News & Analysis
9 Tips for Investigative Journalists to Improve Their Writing
From respecting that different journalists have different styles of reporting to using voices from the field to tell the story, and from keeping it simple with clear language to just ‘getting started,’ here are tips from two experienced reporters for the write-up stage of an investigation.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Data Journalism Top 10: Child Detentions at US Border, Slave Journeys, Aztec Iconography, Facebook’s ‘Broken Promises’
This week, our DDJ Top 10 looks at The Marshall Project’s analysis of child detention at the US border, the Baltimore Banner’s in-depth story on the city’s vacant housing crisis. Plus, we dive into stories using historical data to investigate how slavery broke apart families, a flight analysis on the new destinations of the Russian elite, and a look at Facebook’s “broken promises.”
Case Studies News & Analysis
From Source to Table: How Journalists Are Investigating Food Stories Worldwide
While food is often covered from a cultural lens, it is increasingly garnering the attention of investigative journalists, who are bringing new scrutiny to the environmental impacts of supply chains, labor conditions, and political influence linked to food.
GIJN Workshop: So You Think You Can Google?
GIJN is pleased to announce a hands-on session with search guru Henk van Ess, focused on helping journalists worldwide to find the best answers online in the shortest amount of time.
Methodology Reporting Tools & Tips
Megha Rajagopalan: What I’ve Learned About Investigative Journalism
Megha Rajagopalan has reported from over 23 countries in Asia and the Middle East, on stories ranging from the North Korean nuclear crisis to the peace process in Afghanistan. Her team’s investigation into prison camps in Xinjiang, China won a Pulitzer Prize. In this podcast, she discusses how she got into investigative journalism and gives her tips for speaking to vulnerable sources.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Asia’s SOPA Awards Honor Stories on Fishing Crimes, Uzbek Taxpayer Abuses, and COVID Data Obstruction
Winners of the prestigious 2022 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards were recently announced in Hong Kong, in a gala event that recognized innovative data and investigative journalism as well as the courage of reporters working in Asia’s rising climate of censorship and media repression.
Methodology Reporting Tools & Tips
Global Lessons from Exposing War Abuses in Yemen
Open source tools like the Yemeni Archive have allowed investigative journalists to track the impact of Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in the Yemen civil war as well as identify Western allies’ role in possible war crimes or abuses.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Data Journalism Top 10: Black Sea Blockade, Yemen Airstrikes, Hong Kong Shoebox Housing, Space Garbage
This week, GIJN’s roundup of the best in data journalism features an analysis of the impact of Russia’s Black Sea blockade on the global food chain, a deep dive into the US military’s role in aiding Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen, and a look at how different forms of inequality affect the lives of residents in Brussels, Belgium.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Pulitzer Center Climate Conference Attendees Call for Action
Attendees at the Pulitzer Center’s climate change reporting summit held up posters and spoke out to raise awareness about the disappearance of journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, who went missing in the Amazon rainforest. A suspect has since confessed to killing the men, and two bodies thought to be them have been found, according to media reports.
GIJN Webinar in Hindi: Using RTI in Investigative Journalism
In this GIJN Webinar, exclusively in Hindi, we bring together journalists and experts who will share their experiences and suggest various ways to innovatively use the RTI Act for investigative journalism. Apart from suggesting ways to sniff out wrongdoings in government spendings, they will also offer tips on how to extract information by framing RTI queries in a creative manner.
From South Africa to Turkmenistan: Eight New Journalism Groups Join GIJN
GIJN’s latest membership class sees its first member in Lithuania and a Netherlands-based exiled group focused on Turkmenistan. The groups include investigative media outlets, a journalists’ collective, and a social enterprise that is building representative newsrooms. GIJN also welcomed members from Denmark, Georgia, India, South Africa, and the United States.
Press Freedom
Lessons Learned from Witnessing Viktor Orban’s Crackdown on the Free Press
Andras Petho, co-founder of the investigative news outlet Direkt36, offers lessons learned from witnessing first-hand the press crackdown of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
News & Analysis
How Collaboration Enables Transcendent, World-Changing Journalism
The Pulitzer Center’s Marina Walker Guevara sees collaboration as one of the most significant paradigm changes in journalism of the past 50 years. In a keynote speech at the Collaborative Journalism Summit, she said that by working together, reporters can investigate stories that “transcend us, transcend our competitive instincts, our newsrooms’ politics, and our own egos.”
GIJN Masterclass: How to Investigate a Billion-Dollar Corporate Fraud
In this GIJN Masterclass, Dan McCrum is in conversation with American journalist Katharine Eban a week after the release of his book, “Money Men,” to explain how he uncovered Wirecard’s shady practices and faced up to the firm’s tactics to scare the Financial Times off the story. He will share his tips and tools for investigating corporations.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Data Journalism Top 10: Global Food Crisis, Radiotherapy Access, Costs of Breastfeeding, TikTok Impact
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism looks at the impact of the Ukraine war on the food prices around the world, inequality in radiotherapy access in Spain, the cost of breastfeeding for women, how going viral on TikTok can bring career success, and the places Germans can go for €9.
Methodology Reporting Tools & Tips
Using Satellites to Reveal the Burning of the UK’s Protected Moorlands
How Greenpeace’s investigative site, Unearthed, used satellite imagery and database mapping to reveal hundreds of fires on environmentally protected land in the English moors – including dozens that could be illegal.
Case Studies Methodology
Tracking Down Horses Owned by Families of the Oligarchs
Reporters at the OCCRP are used to cataloging shell companies and trawling through bank records in search of assets. But when they received a tip-off about show jumping horses linked to the oligarchs, they decided to dig into the subject as part of the Russian Asset Tracker project.
News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
10 Tips for Using Geolocation and Open Source Data to Fuel Investigations
Speaking at IJF22, Centre for Information Resilience investigations director Ben Strick offered 10 tips for integrating geolocation and open source data in investigative journalism.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Data Journalism Top 10: Gun Violence, Xinjiang Police Files, Therapy Wait Times, Russian War Looting
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism column looks at schools shootings in the US, the faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps, heat records in the US, migrants at the Polish-Belarus border, the parcels sent by the Russian troops back home or the suicide toll in European jails.