Data Journalism
2026 Sigma Awards for Data Journalism Open for Entries – Deadline Extended
The Sigma Awards celebrate the best data journalism from around the world. Submissions are now open for data projects published in 2025.
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GIJC25
‘Doing this Job Means Always Weighing the Risks’: A Kenyan Data Reporter on the Jump from Academia to Journalism
GIJC25 speaker Purity Mukami, who trained as a statistician, is one of the pioneering women reporters helping to build data journalism in East Africa.
Case Studies Methodology
Uncovering the Hidden Environmental and Human Costs of Laos’ Banana and Durian Boom
As part of its Ground Truths collaborative project, a group of Pulitzer Center-sponsored journalists uncovered how foreign agribusiness companies are impacting Laos.
News & Analysis
Investigating a Scandal in the Publishing World: Q & A with Chloe Hadjimatheou
“The Salt Path” was a bestselling memoir, but after a tipoff, this reporter wondered if everything was quite as it seemed.
How They Did It
Connecting Brazil’s Financial Market to Environmental Violations: The Hidden Impacts of Agribusiness on Indigenous Lands
Investment funds issued to finance Brazil’s agribusiness sector bundle various bonds — some of them labeled “green” — but are tied to socio-environmental violations or potential land grabbing.
Data Journalism How They Did It
How a Le Monde Team Uncovered 300 Contaminants in France’s Groundwater
The French investigative reporter and data journalist shares the methods behind her team’s major investigation into Europe’s polluted groundwater crisis.
Case Studies Member Profiles
How Italy’s First Investigative Center Combines Italian and International Angles
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.
10 Questions
You Can Try Your Best and Fail, But Still You Learn: Insights from Africa’s Investigative Journalist of the Year
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.
News & Analysis
Festival Gabo 2025: Journalism as a ‘Light of Hope’ in an Increasingly Challenging Era for Latin America
The 13th edition of the Gabo Festival highlighted some of the most urgent challenges facing journalism today, particularly in Latin America.
Data Journalism Top 10
Extreme Heat in US Prisons, Tremors and Tsunamis, DRC’s Illegal Timber Trade, Shark Meat in Brazilian Schools
Our round-up of the best in recent data journalism also features stories from Southeast Asia and Gaza.