GIJC25 speaker Purity Mukami, who trained as a statistician, is one of the pioneering women reporters helping to build data journalism in East Africa.
Through her two-plus decades of mentoring young journalists, Joke Kujenya has left a legacy of fostering and strengthening investigative reporting in a difficult press climate.
Reporters, editors, and experts who cover regions with longstanding tensions or conflict between communities share tips and best practices for reporting responsibly — and safely.
The global nonprofit WITNESS seeks to address one of the biggest data gaps in the digital verification landscape: the dependence on tools-based methods that lack local knowledge.
Verah Okeyo and Anne Mawathe were frustrated with newsroom constraints and envisioned producing deeply reported stories that communities and policymakers could not ignore.
Blanshe Musinguzi’s award-winning investigation focused on timber smuggling in East Africa. He talks with GIJN about his career so far, and what he’s learned along the way.
GIJN speaks to a Nigerian journalist about how she uncovered how banned pesticides are still exported and sold in Africa.
Co-founded by two journalists, InfoNile has grown into a sprawling ecosystem of cross-border investigations, multimedia storytelling, and data-driven reporting.
For almost 30 years, the Media Foundation for West Africa has supported watchdog journalism and press freedom in both democratic and authoritarian states across the region.
As extremism spreads across sub-Saharan Africa, journalists are turning to open source tools to track the networks and physical movement of these often violent groups.
Investigative journalist and filmmaker Anu Adelakun discusses her investigation into the forces behind water scarcity and pollution in Africa’s most populous democracy.
The managing editor of HumAngle, which covers the human costs of conflict and terrorism, discusses the challenges of investigative coverage in Nigeria.
GIJN talks to our African member organizations about their challenges and successes — and the state of Investigative journalism on the continent.
Investigations have underlying principles, elements, and rigorous requirements for evidence, accuracy, and fairness. They also require strong and detailed planning.
The comprehensive guide offers detailed advice on managing the non-investigative aspects of collaborative projects.
The funding process is similar to investigative journalism: you must write a compelling narrative that makes the reader understand the importance of your work.
Organized crime is a global phenomenon. But Africa, with its deep-seated corruption and “resource curse,” is particularly hard hit.
The US government engages with virtually every country in the world and each new president can radically change its policy. Here’s GIJN’s updated tipsheet on digging into global US influence.
Experiences and deep insights shared by the investigative journalists.
Our curation of the most prominent data centers in Africa.
To protect journalists from safety and security risks, some African and global organizations have set up programs that offer support to muckrakers who are in trouble, either in selected African countries or across the continent.
Resources that are available for journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa who seek public information in countries with laws governing access to information.
Nonprofit organizations dedicated to offering grants in support of investigative journalism in Africa.
A guide to prominent journalism awards and competitions of special interest to investigative journalists.
The program for the 2025 African Investigative Journalism Conference (#AIJC25), the largest gathering of working investigative journalists on the continent, has been released. Hosted by Wits University in Johannesburg, the AIJC is in its 21st year and will be held from 5 - 7 November. The opening keynote speaker will be Fatou Bensouda, former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. “As always, the conference will offer a wide range of training on everything from data wrangling, follow the money exercises, health, whistleblowers, journalists’ safety, innovation, migration, and many more critical topics,” said convener Beauregard Tromp.
A Kyrgyz court has labeled independent news outlets — GIJN members Kloop Media and Temirov Live and Ait Ait Dese — as well as the activities of their founders “extremist” and ordered a ban on their online activities. The ruling will be enforced by the Ministry of Digital Development, but no additional details about the case were provided. The decision is part of a recent and intensifying crackdown on independent media that has included raids, arrests, orders for closure, and prison sentences for journalists. Temirov Live and Kloop said they will appeal the ruling.
Source: Philip Merrill College of Journalism
The Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland has announced the 2025 winners of the Maria Ressa Prizes for Courage in Journalism, named for the Filipino journalist, press freedom advocate, and 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Myanmarese documentarian Shin Daewe, the OCCRP, The Haitian Times, and student journalists at UCLA, Indiana University, and Columbia University were selected the 2025 winners; journalists who died covering the war in Gaza were also recognized with a special citation. The honor comes with a US$3,000 cash prize.
The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) and Instituto Talanoa have launched a program to encourage journalism coverage of climate adaptation, one of the central themes of the forthcoming COP30 summit in November in Belém, Brazil. Climate adaptation involves policies, technologies, and practices to better deal with the impacts of climate change that are already happening. The initiative includes nine reporting grants and training opportunities for journalists from all over Brazil with international partners, and is open to journalists from countries in Brazil, Europe, and Asia. The first application deadline is November 1, 2025.
Two imprisoned journalists have won the Sakharov Prize, the EU’s top human rights honor. Andrzej Poczobut, a correspondent for Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, was convicted of “harming Belarus’ national security” and is currently serving an eight-year sentence in the Novopolotsk penal colony. Mzia Amaghlobeli, who founded two of Georgia’s independent media outlets, is serving a two-year prison sentence for slapping a police chief during an anti-government protest. European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said: “Both are journalists currently in prison on trumped-up charges simply for doing their work and for speaking out against injustice.”
The TV news show of one of Italy’s leading investigative journalists, Sigfrido Ranucci, announced on October 17 that an explosive device had detonated under his car, outside his home in Pomezia near Rome. No one was injured in the explosion, which destroyed his car as well as his family’s other car and the house next door. "The force of the explosion was so strong that it could have killed anyone passing by at the moment," Ranucci news show Report said in a statement on X. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni strongly condemned what she called a "serious act of intimidation.”
The 2026 edition of the European Press Prize is open for entries until December 14, 2025. The Prize accepts entries in five categories: distinguished reporting, innovation, investigative reporting, public discourse, and migration journalism. Journalists from all 46 European countries — as defined by the Council of Europe — and Belarus and Russia are eligible to enter their work. Journalists with European nationality, working on the European continent, and journalists working for a European media organization or outlet are also eligible. All work submitted must have been published between December 1, 2024 and December 31, 2025.
Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara, who was arrested in Atlanta in June while covering a “No Kings” protest against Trump administration policies, has been deported to his native El Salvador. According to his lawyers, he was not a permanent resident but had a work permit and a pending green card application, and the charges stemming from the arrest were dropped. Press freedom groups say Guevara, who came to the US in 2004 to escape persecution in El Salvador, was detained in retaliation for his reporting on immigration raids. A White House spokesperson denied that the deportation was connected to freedom of speech issues.
Source: Columbia Journalism School
The Maria Moors Cabot Prizes, established in 1938, are the oldest international awards in journalism and honor reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean, recognizing journalists and news organizations that have contributed to Inter-American understanding. The 2025 Cabot Prize Gold Medalists are: Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, United States; Omaya Sosa Pascual, Center for Investigative Journalism, Puerto Rico; Isabella Cota, ICIJ, Mexico; and Natalia Viana, Agência Pública, Brazil. For the second time in its 86-year history, all four of the 2025 Cabot Prize Gold Medalists are women.
Source: Forum on Information and Democracy
Ahead of the UN General Assembly in New York this week, 11 of the world’s leading economists, including Nobel Prize winner and GIJC25 speaker Joseph E. Stiglitz, issued a plea to “recognize and uphold the economic value of public interest media in the age of artificial intelligence.” The Paris-based nonprofit Forum on Information and Democracy brought together a High-Level Panel on Public Interest Media to study the causes of the media crisis, create a plan for governments worldwide, and promote the essential role of public interest media in shaping vibrant economies.
The award-winning reporter and deputy CEO of Taiwan’s The Reporter says public support is the “vital force” that ensures investigative journalism continues to exist.
Kunda Dixit speaks to GIJN about the challenges he has faced in a storied career in investigative reporting, from going into exile to reporting in the face of legal attacks.
The investigative journalist — who has covered topics from ISIS to troll armies — talks to GIJN about his novel reporting methods and keeping investigative journalism alive in Turkey.
Blanshe Musinguzi’s award-winning investigation focused on timber smuggling in East Africa. He talks with GIJN about his career so far, and what he’s learned along the way.
With basic web knowledge, guidance, and examples, even non-coding journalists can build a scraper with large language models.
The global nonprofit WITNESS seeks to address one of the biggest data gaps in the digital verification landscape: the dependence on tools-based methods that lack local knowledge.
The French investigative reporter and data journalist shares the methods behind her team’s major investigation into Europe’s polluted groundwater crisis.
Featuring books spanning four continents, these recommended reads provide a global perspective on data journalism.
Since 2020, the exiled outlet’s investigations have led to approximately 90 sanction actions, proving how journalism can make a real impact on authoritarian regimes.
This small yet notorious investigative outlet was formed almost by accident — but has gone on to investigate electoral issues, conflict, and the death of an Indian journalist.
Being a journalist in Haiti means not only witnessing daily violence but also being a potential target, one news outlet remains a home for those who refuse to stop reporting.
GIJN sat down with newsroom leaders from the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI) to discuss the group’s history, its current business model, and where it plans to go next.
Our latest regional spotlight series examines the world’s largest and most populous continent, which is also the host of GIJN’s 14th Global Investigative Journalism Conference. Asia serves as a unique laboratory in the global media landscape, but journalists here face multifaceted challenges, from censorship to physical threats, digital surveillance to financial pressures. Despite this, watchdog […]
Our third regional spotlight series examines the challenges facing our members and other outlets in the Middle East and North Africa, such as war, backsliding democracies, self-censorship, exile, surveillance and imprisonment of journalists, and the hostile legal environment — and why this reality on the ground makes investigative journalism there all the more essential.
Our second regional spotlight series examines the successes and challenges facing our members in Africa and others reporting from the continent. These articles tell the stories of growing journalistic collaboration, courage, and innovation in the face of repression, legal intimidation, lack of access to information, and even physical threats.
Our first regional spotlight series celebrates the achievements of our members in Latin America and others reporting from the region. These articles tell the stories of reporters across the continent, digging into the investigations that matter, and detailing how outlets are creating innovative reporting projects amid their own specific local challenges.
A webinar exploring how investigative journalists can document human rights abuses in war zones, with a focus on methods to ensure the information gathered can later be used by legal investigators or international courts.
Satellite imagery has become a game-changer for investigative journalism, offering powerful tools to uncover hidden stories.
The 2024 elections marked a seismic year for democracies worldwide, presenting investigative journalists with unique challenges and opportunities.
In Africa, more than in most other parts of the world, the hurdles that journalists have to overcome to report beyond their own countries or continent are numerous.
