Data Journalism
Data Don’ts: Expert Tips to Avoid Misleading Audiences With Numbers
At a NICAR 2025 panel, data journalism experts discussed nuanced number errors that watchdog reporters often make that can confuse readers and disrupt story angles.
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How They Did It
From the Hospital to the Lab: How We Reported the Snakebite Scandal
Two reporters from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s global health team explain how they uncovered the shady world of phony snakebite antivenom.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Behind the FOI Desk: Using Freedom of Information Laws to Fuel Accountability Stories in Africa
Newsrooms across Africa have established formal, right-to-information help desks that leverage government document requests for public accountability and watchdog reporting.
New Free Tools to Track Corporate Misconduct Around the World
The new Violation Tracker Global (VT Global) portal offers unique and valuable datasets on corporate misconduct across 57 countries and territories outside of the US and UK.
MENA Focus Week News & Analysis
Investigative Journalism in MENA: Struggling Against Tyranny, Fighting to Survive
Investigative journalists across the region talk about their biggest challenges — from repressive laws and surveillance to funding cuts.
News & Analysis
What’s Lost if Voice of America Disappears: Watchdog Spirit, Intrepid Reporters, and Focus on the Global South
To dismantle VOA and other US-funded affiliates would be to silence decades of coverage in overlooked parts of the world on topics like human rights, corruption, and war crimes.
Climate Data Journalism
How The Pudding Used Data Visualizations to Recontextualize the Story of Climate Change
What does climate change feel like? How will your city’s climate shift, 50 years from now? Data scientist Derek Taylor explains his latest piece.
News & Analysis Sustainability
As Social Platforms Withdraw Support, Professional Fact Checkers Fight Disinformation and ‘Systemic Assault’ on Facts
During a panel at ISOJ, fact-checkers discussed platform-enabled mis/disinformation in an era struggling with news avoidance, distrust, and limited access to information.
Data Journalism Methodology
How AI Is Helping Independent Journalists Track Wartime Casualties of Russia
Exiled Russian media site IStories has shared with GIJN how it built an AI-powered database of Russian military war dead and missing, and why it was worth creating.
Data Journalism Top 10
COVID-19’s Impact Five Years On, Chinese Harassment of Taiwan, Peruvian Political Fortunes, and 75 Years of Formula 1
Also this week, a visual narrative on the 30th anniversary of the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack, a special feature on Ramadan, and the grim statistics of death prediction.