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Investigating Health and Medicine
Read our updated guide to reporting on health and medicine, featuring lessons learned from covering the coronavirus outbreak.
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Four Quick Ways to Verify Images on a Smartphone
GIJN has updated our popular step-by-step guide on verifying images to help find out whether the photo you saw on social media is the real thing. Try out some simple-to-use free tools — including TinEye, Google Reverse Image Search, Photo Sherlock, and Fake Image Detector — to check the source of a picture and whether it has been manipulated.
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Investigating Femicide: A GIJN Guide
Femicide — the intentional murder of women because they are women — is a global problem. According to the UN’s latest estimates, 50,000 women and girls are killed each year by intimate partners or other family members. GIJN’s latest resource aims to help journalists understand what femicide is, find and understand the data available, and suggest which experts to interview.
News & Analysis
Document of the Day: Freedom House Reports 15th Straight Year of Declining Freedom
Freedom House, which released its annual report Freedom in the World this week, has documented the 15th consecutive year of decline in global freedom, finding less than a fifth of the world’s population living in what it considers “free” countries.
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What We’re Reading: Mapping Counter Influence Ops, Russian Media Goes After Putin, Signal’s New Group Calls
For this week’s Friday 5, where GIJN rounds up journalism news in English from around the world, we’re reading about a new database of global counter influence operations, the Russian media groups taking on President Vladimir Putin, and Signal’s new group calling feature.
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What We’re Reading: Tracking the Global Arms Trade, PPE Procurement Watch, and International Support for Whistleblowers
For this week’s Friday 5, where GIJN rounds up journalism news in English from around the world, we’re reading about the new Corruption Tracker for the international arms trade, dodgy deals in personal protective equipment procurement, and a recently launched organization to support whistleblowers legally, as well as financially.
News & Analysis
What We’re Reading: Financial Investigators Under Pressure, Ethics of Unpublishing, EU Arms Exports, Subscription Models
For this week’s Friday 5, where GIJN rounds up interesting journalism news in English from around the world, we read about the ways journalists investigating financial crimes and corruption are pressured, the ethics behind unpublishing stories, and a new database of European Union arms exports.
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What We’re Reading: Greenwald Out of The Intercept, Collaborating on Pandemic Data, and Bellingcat’s Updated Toolkit
For this week’s Friday 5, where GIJN rounds up interesting journalism news in English from around the world, we read about Glenn Greenwald’s resignation from The Intercept, a data journalism collaboration on COVID-19 data which reaches across eight newsrooms, and Bellingcat’s already excellent, and now updated, Online Investigation Toolkit.
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What We’re Reading: Media Manipulation, Newsroom Newsletters, Successful Pitches, and a UN Resolution on Journalist Safety
For this week’s Friday 5, where GIJN rounds up key reads in English from around the world, we came across the launch of The Media Manipulation Casebook, a piece on how to make your newsletter a key revenue driver, and a supportive — if implemented — UN resolution on the safety of journalists.
News & Analysis
What We’re Reading: Disinformation Wargames, Chemical Weapons in Syria, Automated Graphic Storytelling, and AP Stylebook’s Election Guide
For this week’s Friday 5, where GIJN rounds up key reads from around the world, we read about how researchers verified a chemical weapons attack in Syria, BBC News Labs’ new storytelling graphic for Facebook, and AP Stylebook’s latest election guide.