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Reporting Tools & Tips

Digital Security for Journalists Requires an Adaptable Toolkit

by Grégoire Pouget • July 16, 2019

When it comes to digital security, what does a journalist from West Africa, a Syrian journalist based in Turkey, and a French journalist on a reporting trip to Kashmir have in common? Answer: Very little. While they all need to protect their data, their communications, and their sources, they must each do this in different ways that are adapted to the context, explains Grégoire Pouget of the Paris-based nonprofit Nothing2Hide.

Case Studies

10 Great Digital Stories From 2019 (So Far)

by Alka Anna Goos • July 15, 2019

Hackastory has lined up its favorite digital stories of the year so far, from the Guardian’s interactive showing what the internet looks like from different parts of the world to a Dutch game that puts you in the middle of war-torn Mosul.

Reporting Tools & Tips

Document of the Day: Annotating “The Case of Jane Doe Ponytail”

by GIJN Staff • July 11, 2019

If you read “The Case of Jane Ponytail,” published in The New York Times in 2018, you’re likely to remember it. The award-winning story recounted the life and death of Song Yang, a Chinese woman who came to the United States with dreams of becoming an American citizen, but who ended up dying after falling from a building during a raid on the illicit massage parlor where she was employed as a sex worker. Now you can read the story with annotations by Dan Barry, explaining how he crafted the heart-rending narrative.

Case Studies

Investigating the Money Men of African Kleptocrats

by Evelyn Groenink • July 10, 2019

The African Investigative Publishing Collective recently conducted a multi-part investigation into the associates that handle business for African kleptocrats. Evelyn Groenink shares how the story took form and the massive challenges faced by reporters spread across multiple countries.

News & Analysis

Four Essential Areas for Journalism Students & Educators

by Alex Frandsen • July 9, 2019

Storybench identified four areas of emphasis – data, local news, social media, and business models – that will be crucial for journalism students to spend time on, and interviewed five journalism educators across the country who lead especially forward-looking programs and courses.

Dawn, Pakistan’s Paper of Record, Under Pressure as Military Tightens Grip

by Umer Ali • July 8, 2019

Pakistan’s journalism landscape has lately come under immense pressure from the country’s powerful military. In one of the latest moves to pressure Dawn, Pakistan’s leading English newspaper, the government revoked its ads for the paper, as well as for its sister TV channel, DawnNews. Umer Ali writes for GIJN about the crises.

Reporting Tools & Tips

My Favorite Tools: Emmanuel Freudenthal

by Gaelle Faure • July 3, 2019

For the very first story in our new series about journalists’ favorite tools, we spoke with Emmanuel Freudenthal, a freelance investigative reporter based in Nairobi. He told GIJN’s Gaelle Faure all about how he uses virtual tools like GPS Tracks and Gmail Snooze and physical tools like plane-tracking antennas and good old motorbikes.

Case Studies

How The Wall Street Journal Reported on “The Price of Climate”

by Veer Mudambi • July 2, 2019

The Wall Street Journal’s graphic-heavy series “The Price of Climate” took an ambitious look at how financial and economic markers reflect present and future thinking about the climate. One of the editors that worked on it says it was a response to the fact “that a lot of climate change stories feel and look the same.” Here’s how they did it.

Reporting Tools & Tips

1,000 Fans: Focus on Quality Readers, Not Quantity

by Phillip Smith • July 1, 2019

You don’t need a million casual readers — just 1,000 committed ones. And there are signs that the “1,000 true fans” theory holds approximately true across a wide range of journalism enterprises — sometimes it’s actually a thousand; other times it’s 400, 1,500, or 5,000.

Data Journalism

GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: The NYT’s Data Curriculum, Space Junk, Parents vs. Non-Parents

by Eunice Au & Connected Action • June 27, 2019

What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from June 17 to 23 finds Federica Fragapane visualizing space debris and their distance from earth, The New York Times open-sourcing its in-house data curriculum, Nathan Yau visualizing what time is lost for people once they have children, and Guns & America quantifying gunshot incidents within 300 meters of Washington, DC schools.

Member Profiles

Why South Africa’s Pioneering Investigative Nonprofit is Supporting Other Regional Start-Ups

by Rowan Philp • June 24, 2019

A small nonprofit investigative newsroom played an outsized role in the removal of South Africa’s president and his corrupt inner circle last year. Now, amaBhungane is building a separate hub to help new investigative start-ups throughout southern Africa. Rowan Philp writes about the newsroom and its latest initiative for GIJN’s new series about its members.

Data Journalism

GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: Ring of Fire, Political Dynasties, Data Janitors, Hong Kong Protests

by Eunice Au & Connected Action • June 20, 2019

What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from June 10 to 16 finds a gorgeous series of data visualizations by National Geographic on the Ring of Fire, Bloomberg analyzing the influence of dynasties in the Philippines’ politics, RStudio’s Hadley Wickham talking about why you shouldn’t assign data cleaning to a “data janitor,” and BR Recherche looking at the complexity of privacy policies.

GIJN Welcomes Seven New Member Organizations in Seven Countries

by GIJN Staff • June 19, 2019

The Global Investigative Journalism Network is delighted to welcome seven new member organizations based in seven countries. We are particularly pleased to welcome our first members in Bolivia and Lesotho. The new groups bring GIJN’s global membership to 182 groups in 77 countries.

Reporting Tools & Tips

How to Use TweetDeck for Open Source Investigations

by Jake Creps • June 19, 2019

If you’re an OSINT investigator or use OSINT in any of your work, it’s impossible to ignore Twitter as a collection source. Here’s how to get the most out of it by organizing your searches on a TweetDeck dashboard.

The Obsessions of French Media Site Les Jours

by Olivier Holmey • June 18, 2019

“Synopsis,” “soundtrack,” “episode,” “mood”… This is the language used daily within the Parisian offices of Les Jours. But don’t let its vocabulary fool you: While the 3-year old media company borrows many of the codes of fiction producers for television, it actually runs a hard-hitting investigative news site.

Data Journalism Reporting Tools & Tips

Six Lessons From Reporting “Heartbroken”

by Neil Bedi • June 17, 2019

Every investigative journalist encounters moments of doubt. Neil Bedi, an investigative reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, shares the set of rules his team followed to survive the toughest reporting challenges while reporting their Pulitzer-nominated series “Heartbroken.”

News & Analysis

Document of the Day: How Ukrainian Billionaires Allegedly Laundered Money in the US

by GIJN Staff • June 14, 2019

Ukraine’s largest bank is taking its battle with its former owners to US shores. In a civil lawsuit filed in the state court of Delaware, PrivatBank accuses Ihor Kolomoisky and Gennady Bogolyubov, the billionaires who owned the bank before it was nationalized three years ago, of large-scale money laundering in the United States.

Data Journalism

GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: Avengers on the Move, Nonprofit Tax Filings, Visualizing Uncertainty

by Eunice Au & Connected Action • June 13, 2019

What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from June 3 to 9 finds @sto3psl mapping places the Avengers visited in Europe, @fedfragapane visualizing which elements in the periodic table are in danger of running out, @srfdata highlighting the top worries of the Swiss and @propublica doing researchers and journalists a huge public service by making 3 million US nonprofit records text-searchable.

News & Analysis

You Shall Not Kill the Reporter

by Ginna Morelo • June 12, 2019

Promoting journalists to management positions without letting them do any reporting is a dangerous road to go down, argues Colombian reporter Ginna Morelo. Here are her proposed 10 commandments of the Journalist, written as an exercise to remind herself about what journalists should never give up on.

News & Analysis

Uncomfortable Questions, Difficult Answers and a Moving Journalism Conference in Central America

by Catalina Lobo-Guerrero • June 10, 2019

The last time GIJN Spanish Editor Catalina Lobo-Guerrero was in El Salvador, she was so shaken up by stories of violence and sexism towards women there that she ended up writing an Op-Ed for The New York Times with the following opening line: “I don’t want to go back to El Salvador.” But last month she returned to the country to attend the ForoCAP, the Central American Journalism Forum.

Data Journalism

GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: European Election, Data via Audio, Tax Fraud & Parserator

by Eunice Au & Connected Action • June 6, 2019

What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from May 27 to June 2 finds immense buzz around the recent European Parliament elections, with @SZ explaining the EU political landscape, @morgenpost looking at the results in Berlin, and @journocode collecting data journalism pieces related to the election. There’s also @datajournalism’s tips on presenting data through audio and @BIRNSrbija’s data investigation into major corporate tax fraud in Serbia.

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