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Uncovering Syria’s Stolen Children
This collaborative investigation brought together international and local journalists to reveal how the Assad regime used a global childcare charity to aid the disappearance of children.
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GIJC25 Sustainability
‘No Cavalry Is Coming’: How Investigative Journalism Must Rethink Money, Metrics and Survival
This GIJC25 panel discussion surfaced a set of unresolved questions about what investigative journalism can sustainably support — and what it may need to leave behind.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
‘Ghost’ Prisoners, Missing Children, Anti-Corruption Wiretaps: 2025’s Best Investigative Stories from Ukraine
Despite domestic threats to press freedom and power cuts and sleepless nights from Russian attacks, Ukrainian independent journalists continue their work with depth and skill.
GIJC25 News & Analysis
Tips to Investigate AI Labor Abuses in the Global South
Workers in East Africa and South Asia are now paid low wages to perform behind-the-scenes data tasks are used to power AI-driven facial recognition systems around the world.
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Lethal Firing Orders at Protests, Besieged Bawm Community, an Island Habitat in Peril: 2025’s Top Investigative Stories from Bangladesh
Also featuring in-depth looks at the country’s expansive surveillance state infrastructure, a generation of disappearances, and one company’s massive riverside land grab.
Sustainability
Growing a Small Nonprofit Can Be a Bit Like Adolescence — Painful, Difficult, Awkward
The authors, senior leaders at the Global Reporting Centre, write about the difficulties in changing from a fledgling start-up to a robust organization that is ‘set up to succeed.’
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Deadly Gaza Aid Sites, Damascus Dossier, Exploiting Sudanese Refugees: 2025’s Best Investigative Stories from the Middle East and North Africa
Also featuring exposés on sex-trafficking of workers in Dubai, secret mass deportations of Tunisians from the EU, and unlicensed addiction treatment centers in Egypt.
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Digital Scam Trails, Deadly Hospital Infections, Harrowing Immigration Journeys: 2025’s Best Investigative Stories from India
Also featuring deep dives into rampant worker injuries in automobile factories, health hazards from imported scrap tires, and the politicization of the national archaeological survey.
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GIJN’s 10 Must-Read Stories of 2025
GIJN’s top stories from the past year, including cutting-edge reporting tools and techniques, in-person conference presentations, and analysis of the state of the IJ community.
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GIJN Resource Center’s Top Guides for 2025
Highlights this year have included guides to investigating landfill emissions, detecting AI content online, digging into caste discrimination, and material to help reporters investigate possible war crimes.