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Fabiola Torres López writes about the tools and programs that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists team who worked on the Paradise Papers — 383 reporters from 67 countries — became familiar with during the investigation. They are divided into three categories: digital security, document search and data connections.
Crowdfunding has become very popular in the Czech Republic, where it is often used to help launch independent media outlets or to get money to finance individual projects and cover specific topics.
In Kenya, the NGOs Transparency International and Fojo Media Institute have paired up to train budding investigative journalists and offer them reporting grants. GIJN’s Rowan Philp reports.
Initially founded by the UN, The New Humanitarian became independent five years ago and is stepping up its investigative work into the multi-billion dollar aid industry. Rowan Philp profiles the organization working to hold the humanitarian sector to account.
The Pangolin Reports brought together more than 40 journalists in 14 countries to investigate the illegal trade in pangolins, a harmless ant-eating mammal which is close to extinction. This is what they learned about collaborative journalism.
Around the world, millions of people seem to be tuning serious journalism out, as the fallout from misinformation, fatigue, and rival information sources overwhelm audience attention. But in three developing countries, large new audiences are now tuning in – to watch investigative reporting teams compete in Pop Idol-style reality shows.
The Membership Puzzle project went around the world to identify “memberful” routines that incorporate community members’ knowledge and produce value for news organizations. Here is what they found.
Investigating a big story can create an abundance of leads — sometimes, more than one journalist or even one newsroom can use. Here’s how Reveal created its Reporting Networks to share those leads with local journalists across the United States.
Satire can make journalism more entertaining and accessible for new audiences. But how can you turn your headline into a punchline? To find out, Amina Boubia from the Open Society Foundations’ Program on Independent Journalism spoke to two veterans of political satire: Isam Uraiqat and Juan Ravell.
A group of independent reporters and photographers, working in different parts of Mexico, decided to come together and try to answer a fundamental question: Where do the disappeared of the drug war end up? GIJN’s Spanish editor Catalina Lobo-Guerrero spoke with the team of journalists to find out how they did it.
When journalists practice transparency around their processes, their goals, and their values, news consumers tend to respond positively — and sometimes, they even spend more money on journalism. That was the case with an experiment that Trusting News ran with PolitiFact.
