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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.

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.

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.

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