GIJN Spanish associate editor Mariel Lozada offers a behind-the-scenes look at a reporting collaboration that uncovers the vast scale of illegal mining and illicit smuggling in Venezuela’s Amazon region.
Russian journalists who have fled their home country over censorship and security issues are now rebuilding their lives and careers amid a diaspora community in Riga, Latvia.
To get a behind-the-scenes look at The New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the civilian death toll of US airstrikes, GIJN interviewed two key members of the reporting team: Christoph Koettl, a member of the Times’ visual Investigations team, and the series’ lead reporter, Azmat Khan.
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism column looks at a historical investigation into Haiti’s lost billions, visualizing COVID’s US death toll, and Asia’s growing wealth inequality.
In a recent Q+A, environmental reporter Mark Olalde discussed a collaborative investigation on the impact of abandoned oil wells and other extractive industry infrastructure on nearby communities. The investigation won second place in the investigative reporting category at the awards of the Society of Environmental Journalists.
Every year thousands of migrants cross one of the most dangerous borders in the world: the Darién Gap, a magnificent but deadly rainforest that connects Colombia and Panama. GIJN spoke to a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, and one of her teammates, who trekked through the jungle to investigate what happens en route.
GIJN spoke with International Symposium on Online Journalism founder, Rosental Alves, about the growing backlash against independent media in Latin America.
In this week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism, we look at pro-Russian propaganda’s popularity in Africa and South Asia, the rising costs of goods in the US and India, inequitable disaster funding, and the power of animating data visualization.
Reporters for Investigate Europe (IE) spent months examining the consequences of a seismic shift in Europe’s elder care homes, where for-profit companies have increasingly taken over the industry. Their investigation explored how this shift has affected residents and staff, and dug into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on some of society’s most vulnerable people.
Independent media now have to deal with an increasing number of digital attacks on press freedom, from brute-force attacks on their servers to more sophisticated assaults on their social media presence and digitally-based legal challenges.
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism features an analysis of Russian military casualties, the heat wave scorching India, myths about the link between dog breeds and behavior, and the potential impact of overturning a key judicial ruling on abortion in the US.
There is one key reason why reporters should start learning about cryptocurrencies, according to the OCCRP’s Jan Strozyk, and that is because their investigative targets are already using them to hide their crimes and finance their future operations.
Shutting down the internet has become an increasingly common tactic of governments and regimes looking to prevent civil society and free media from operating. Here, experts in privacy and security give their advice on the tools and tactics for skirting internet blackouts.
To share best practices from our most recent global conference, GIJC21, we are releasing a series of videos from the event’s many seminars, panels, and workshops. This latest installment focuses on investigative tips and tools for using satellite imagery, flight tracking, and exposing disinformation.
Are you an enterprising journalist based in a Persian Gulf Arab country or a Gulf journalist who works from exile? Looking for a chance to develop your investigative skills? If so, we have a unique opportunity for you: a free, intensive workshop taught by leading journalists and outside experts.
Many autocracy-displaced media have managed to navigate surviving outside their home country with varying degrees of success. In a series of interviews with GIJN, exiled news leaders from around the world offer some best practices and lessons learned from their own experiences.
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism features an analysis of talk show host Tucker Carlson’s extremist rhetoric, a look at Elon Musk’s Twitter usage, a reconstruction of the battle in Mariupol, and tips to make data visualization more accessible to readers with disabilities.
Reporters Sans Frontiéres released its 2022 World Press Freedom Index, calling out the growing threat of polarization and “information chaos,” and their potentially disastrous impact on independent media around the world.
To share best practices and other lessons learned from our most recent global conference, GIJC21, we are releasing a series of videos from the event’s many seminars, panels, and workshops. This latest installment focuses on reporter safety, digital security, and source protection.
On World Press Freedom Day 2022, journalists around the world, many of them now in exile, are pushing back against a growing crackdown on a free press.
This webinar by the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) and the Center of Excellence in Journalism (CEJ) brings together journalists from across South Asia to discuss how to make independent news organizations economically sustainable.
Our weekly curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter highlights a climate change policy game, an analysis of banknote representation, an examination of how America’s tax system favors the ultra-wealthy, and the sonification of French polling data.
Two Washington Post reporters discuss how they overcame obstacles, talked to hesitant sources, and built their own datasets to investigate failures at the agency that manages disasters in the United States, offering their tips for other reporters in the process.
In an era when an investigative reporter’s contacts are often all stored on their smartphone or in the cloud, digital security best practices are paramount to protect your sources.
The Taco Kuiper Awards are South Africa’s prestigious prize for investigative reporting. Here are the opening remarks from the judges for the 16th annual award, the shortlist, and winners for reporting produced in 2021.
In this online webinar, free to all journalists across Africa and beyond, GIJN brings together four senior journalists who will discuss how their organizations have used available platforms and other ways to reach new and wider audiences, and they will share the tools they have created to distribute or repackage investigative content.
To share best practices and other lessons learned from our most recent global conference, GIJC21, we are releasing a series of videos from the event’s many seminars, panels, and workshops. This latest installment focuses on key issues like health and medicine, women’s leadership, investigative podcasts, and Indigenous reporting.
