Verah Okeyo and Anne Mawathe were frustrated with newsroom constraints and envisioned producing deeply reported stories that communities, policymakers, and global audiences 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.
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.
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.
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.
Cross-border investigations are trending all over the world. GIJN talked to organizations promoting reporting partnerships in Africa about their experiences and challenges.
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.
Source: International Federation of Journalists
A recent Israeli airstrike targeted a media center in Sanaa, reportedly killing dozens of civilians and at least nine media workers. The building hit in the bombing housed the offices of the 26 September newspaper, the official news outlet of the Houthi-controlled Yemeni Army, which employs military and civilian journalists. Israel claimed its attack was a retaliatory blow on the "Houthi Public Relations Department" for a previous Houthi drone strike inside Israel. IFJ General Secretary Anthony Bellanger decried the "appalling massacre," saying: "Targeting journalists is a grave violation of international law and an attack on the public’s right to know."
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has announced the honorees for the 2025 International Press Freedom Awards. Journalists from China, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan, and Tunisia will be honored at the 35th annual International Press Freedom Awards in New York on November 20, 2025. CPJ’s 2025 awardees are Dong Yuyu, (China), Elvira del Pilar Nole and Juan Carlos Tito (Ecuador), Bolot Temirov (Kyrgyzstan), and Sonia Dahmani (Tunisia). CPJ noted that "two of this year’s awardees are currently behind bars for their journalism, and three were forced to flee their home countries and now report from exile."
The JournalismAI Festival, which explores the intersection between journalism and artificial intelligence, will take place in London at Prospero House on November 11-12. Polis, the media think tank of the London School of Economics (LSE) is organizing the event with support from the Google News Initiative. This year’s theme explores how AI supports new production, editorial workflows, audience engagement, and distribution, and also investigates how AI is reshaping how journalists report, research, and verify information. Events will include networking sessions, fireside chats, and hands-on workshops. Some sessions will be livestreamed.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Russian authorities to free Heorhiy Levchenko, a Ukrainian journalist captured in August 2023 “in retaliation” for his reporting on the war from occupied territories, according to a CPJ statement. A court in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied city of Melitopol sentenced Levchenko to 16 years in a high-security penal colony for “high treason” and “calling for extremism online” because he used a Telegram channel to share with Ukrainian forces the location of Russian units. Levchenko was the administrator of the Ukrainian news site RIA-Melitopol’s Telegram channel, and also also organized a network of correspondents.
The Climate Arena conference — which will this year be held at Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary, on 10-11 October — brings together journalists, scientists, and researchers with the goal of improving climate investigation and reporting in Europe. The “hands-on, working” conference is focused on sharing tools and methods, datasets, insights, and fostering collaborations and new cross-border projects. Panels will cover how to spot false climate solutions, trace international climate finance, and report on the impact of deregulation in Europe. There will also be hands-on sessions on using satellite data, mapping tools, and protecting your sources.
The Innovation. Media. Minds. Program, managed by the Goethe Institute and funded by the European Union (EU), is accepting applications for independent media grants for outlets based in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, or Serbia. The grants are intended to support independent media outlets and organizations in the region that promote pluralism of expression, and to boost their cooperation with public service media. Applications must operate as an independent media outlet/media organization. Grants of up to €30,000 (US$34,783) will be awarded. The deadline to apply is September 18, 2025.
Source: Committee to Protect Journalists
In the wake of recent airstrikes that have killed multiple journalists from Al Jazeera and the Associated Press in Gaza, GIJN reiterates its call for unrestricted access and the safety of the press to operate inside the territory. The organization's executive director, Emilia Díaz-Struck, signed onto the letter from the Committee to Protect Journalists, joining more than 200 other global leaders who are demanding that Israel allow "immediate, independent, and unrestricted international media access to Gaza and for full protection of journalists who continue to report under siege."
The Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network (ORN) creates a “collaborative ecosystem” of journalists around the world that uncover harmful and illegal practices related to the ocean — such as fishing and extractive industries and systemic threats to marine biodiversity and coastal communities. The Pulitzer Center is now accepting applications for the next cohort of ORN fellows. At least nine journalists with a proven track record of environmental investigations will be selected for the remote program. The year-long fellowship will cover a reporter’s salary for the duration. The deadline to apply is September 12, 2025.
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA), Proyecto Desconfío (Argentina), and Fundación para el Periodismo (Bolivia) have announced that registration is now open for the fifth edition of the 2025 Global Summit on Disinformation. It will be held on September 17 and 18, online and free of charge. The summit brings together journalists, researchers, technologists, educators, and organizations to focus on the effects of disinformation on democracy and news quality, as well as the impact of AI. The summit will feature thematic panels, case studies, workshops, and networking spaces with international leaders working in information, technology, and AI.
Several Al Jazeera journalists were among the casualties of an Israeli airstrike on a tent near Shifa Hospital in eastern Gaza City on August 10. Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, along with photojournalists Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, and Mohammed Noufa were killed, along with a local freelance reporter Mohammad Al-Khaldi. Israel's military said it targeted Anas Al Sharif — alleging he had headed a Hamas cell and was involved in rocket attacks against Israel. Al Jazeera disputed this claim, and the UN and journalists’ groups denounced the killings. Al Sharif was part of a Reuters team that won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.
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 the veteran reporter who covered the Pacific region from the small island nation of Palau for more than 20 years.
Tips on persistence from a permanently exiled reporter whose multi-year investigation was turned into an Emmy-nominated documentary.
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Connie Walker discusses her favorite podcast tools, the ‘radical transformation’ of how Indigenous issues are covered, and building trust with sources.
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.
At the 2025 Netzwerk Recherche conference, radio journalists shared how they used data and AI tools to investigate Germany’s cultural sector and the influence of the country’s far right.
The chief data reporter for the Financial Times discusses how he considers the use of text, color, and annotation to aid visual storytelling through charts and graphics.
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.
The organization has one guiding principle: “Let the data speak.” But sometimes getting hold of the information they need is an uphill battle.
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.
With hundreds of the country’s reporters in exile, the press is under pressure like never before. But this outlet is continuing to report despite all its staff now being based overseas.
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.
Global elections in 2024 will affect more citizens than in any previous year, and will likely reset humanity’s liberty compass for years ahead. This project features an elections reporting guide, stories on cutting-edge tools for investigating campaigns and candidates, and lessons learned from the best in local watchdog reporting from around the world.
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.
