Member Profiles
How Mongabay Exposes Threats to the Environment and Indigenous Communities
GIJN member Mongabay is leading the way in environmental journalism with a innovative global-plus-local approach to watchdog reporting.
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Russian Arms Sales, Sanctioned Timber, and Putin’s Secret Children: 2024’s Best Investigations from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus
From Russia to Central Asia, the climate for investigative journalism is deteriorating. But watchdog reporters have not given up, even if many now have to report from overseas.
How They Did It Reporting Tools & Tips
Misinformation on TikTok: How Documented Examined Hundreds of Videos in Different Languages
For an investigation into misinformation on TikTok, the Documented team developed helpful methodologies for using AI to transcribe and analyze large amounts of downloaded videos.
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War Impacts, Illicit Sanctions-Busting Trade, Black Sea Damage: 2024’s Best Investigations in Ukrainian
Despite the challenges of reporting in wartime, Ukrainian journalists continue to uncover corruption — even while under attack from disinformation campaigns.
News & Analysis
Documents Found After the Fall of Assad Show Syrian Intelligence Spying on Journalists
Files discovered at Syria’s intelligence directorate after the fall of the Assad regime detail an operation to surveil and investigate SIRAJ, a Syrian journalist collective.
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Global Tour of Investigative Podcasts: 2024 Edition
Our annual round-up of compelling investigative audio stories, as reviewed by GIJN’s global team. Featuring stories from the US, Germany, Switzerland, El Salvador, Turkey, and Russia.
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Dictatorship’s Legacy, Rise of Portugal’s Far Right, and Devastating Flooding: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in Portuguese
Also featuring stories on dubious pension payments, sinking cities, and deforestation, here are our favorite stories from the Lusophone world this year.
How They Did It
Opening the AI ‘Black Box’: How We Investigated Grab’s Fare System
How the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism looked into the opaque algorithm used by the ride-hailing company Grab.
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Fake Fertilizer, Dirty Money, and a Kidnapping Epidemic: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories from Sub-Saharan Africa
Also featuring revelations about misuse of college scholarships in Ghana, a televangelist’s troubling empire in Nigeria, and a dive into a US charity’s spending in Malawi.
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Investigating Mining, Tracking Trolling, and Deconstructing a Building Collapse: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories from Turkey
Investigative journalism in Turkey faces many challenges and obstacles, but there are remarkable reporters digging into untold stories.
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Digital Slavery, Nickel Downstreaming, and Timber Grabbing: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in Southeast Asia
This year’s picks emphasize the region’s increasingly sophisticated cross-border crimes, but also how investigative journalists consistently expose them.
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A Mysterious Poisoning, Contaminated Tanker Trucks, and a Death in Custody: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories About China
Also featuring reporting on an elaborate con on a Chinese dissident, an academic credentials scandal, and trekking with Chinese migrants to the US border.
Teaching & Training
Digital Threats: Fourth Cyber Investigations 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.
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Switzerland’s Hidden Slave Trade, Migrants ‘Dumped’ in the Desert, and a Religious Sex Scandal: 2024’s Best Investigations in French
Featuring stories from France to the Ivory Coast, Switzerland to Senegal, here are eight of the best investigations published in French this year.
Data Journalism Top 10 Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Editor’s Pick: Top 10 Data Journalism Projects of 2024
Highlights from a year of data journalism columns, from elections to the Olympics and the evolution of the love song.
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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.
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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.
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Investigating Yemen’s War, Uncovering Famine in Sudan, and Telling the Story of Gaza: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories from the Middle East
Plus a deep dive into a powerful figure behind a vital border crossing, an investigation into mercenaries in Yemen, and exposing real estate ownership in Dubai.
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GIJN Resource Center’s Top Guides and Tipsheets from 2024
GIJN’s top reporting guides and tipsheets from 2024, including an introduction to investigative journalism and guides on project management, fundraising, and extreme heat.
Africa Focus Methodology
Tips from African Journalists on Cross-Border Investigations
African journalists who have worked on impactful cross-border investigations share lessons on uncovering illegal fishing, timber trafficking, and illicit money flows.
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Government Coalition Collapse, Green-Washing Natural Gas, Europe’s Opioid Crisis: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in German
Also featured on our list, a #MeToo case in higher education, secret funding of ‘race science,’ and the state of Swiss prisons.
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The Blasphemy Business, Real Estate Land Grabs, Instagram Misinformation: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in Pakistan
Our annual best-of list features stories on Pakistan’s sanitary workers, links between politicians and sugar mills, and the endless construction of a Balochistan road.
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Tracking Election Donations, Illicit Gold Markets, Parliamentary Stonewalling: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in India
Also featuring a look at algorithmic bias in dispensing food aid, corruption in the country’s largest civil service exam, and a tragic construction accident.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
GIJN’s Top Investigative Tools of 2024
In 2024, new and innovative digital tools provided leads and evidence for accountability stories on every continent.
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GIJN’s 10 Must-Read Stories of 2024
Featuring a showcase of game-changing reporting methods based on insider tips from real-world investigations and conference presentations.
Africa Focus Data Journalism
How Data Journalism Is Changing the Face of Africa
Data journalism in Africa has made a powerful impact, from holding leaders accountable to refuting myths around domestic violence. But the field faces formidable challenges.
Africa Focus Member Profiles
‘Sowing the Seed:’ The Museba Project’s Ambitious Investigative Journalism in Central Africa
Since its inception, the Cameroon-based journalism collective has had a double mission: first to train journalists, and then to encourage them to work together.
GIJC25
GIJC25 Registration Is Now Open
GIJN and Malaysiakini are excited to announce that registration for the Global Investigative Journalism Conference (#GIJC25) from Nov. 20-24, 2025 in Kuala Lumpur is now open.