Global Investigative Journalism Network (https://gijn.org/category/methodology/)
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.
The #MeToo wave has emboldened Chinese journalists to start covering rampant sexual abuse. GIJN China has rounded up three incidents out of Chinese universities which are on the frontlines of #MeToo reporting in China.
There are different ways fake news sites fake us out. In GIJN’s latest tutorial, Olga Yurkova, co-founder of the Ukrainian fact-checking project StopFake, runs through the six main techniques used and offers up some simple tools to vet them.
For the last three years Gavin Chait has been fighting — and winning — multiple freedom of information cases to unlock data on vacant properties. Here are the lengths he took to disprove the City of London’s excuse for not publishing information on unoccupied commercial properties.
Canada’s OpenFile had an elegant concept. They would ask readers to tell them what they thought was important and make editorial decisions around that. But the platform’s initial success couldn’t be sustained as it struggled to make money and maintain the flow of reader-suggested stories. Here’s what the OpenFile journalists learned about community journalism along the way.
A unique collaboration between five international investigative teams and recently-formed Signals Network is offering unprecedented protection to whistleblowers, and has received the backing of famed NSA exposer Edward Snowden. Their first project? A broad call on the misuse of big data. A GIJN report by Rowan Philp.
The past few years have seen an explosion of digital tools that can be used to enhance journalism research and reporting. In this new monthly feature GIJN’s IT Coordinator Alastair Otter takes a look at some of the best and latest tools and techniques for enhancing investigative and data-driven journalism.
John Schrag had known for a while about an unexamined pool of data that could shed new light on the issue of concussions in high school sports. The executive editor of a newspaper in Oregon, his first instincts were to keep the story in-house and garner all the glory, but he quickly realized the only way the story would see the light of day was through collaboration.
Despite increasing state-control, violence against journalists and other threats to press freedom, Southeast Asian journalists are increasingly delving into data journalism and other forms of innovative storytelling and creating a greater impact than ever before — thanks in no small part to Malaysian data journalist Kuang Keng Kuek Ser. GIJN in Chinese editor Siran Liang talked ho him about the rise of data journalism in the region.
Following a surge of tick-borne illnesses in the northeastern US, two reporters with the Center for Public Integrity are investigating the health impacts resulting from climate change — and they are engaging the help of health professionals and the public to gather stories and data.
English
كتابة: كاتارينا سابادوس
ميراندا باتروشيك هي محررة لشبكة الإبلاغ عن الفساد والجريمة المنظمة(OCCRP) والحائزة على جائزة الضوء الساطع العالمية المُقدمة من الشبكة العالمية للصحافة الإستقصائية لعام ۲۰۱۷م لعملها على موضوع صناعة القتل – وهو تحقيق يدور حول خط إمداد للأسلحة بقيمة 1،2 مليار دولار من البلقان إلى سوريا. قبل انضمامها إلى شبكة الإبلاغ عن الجريمة المنظمة والفساد (OCCRP)، عملت ميراندا لحساب مركز إعداد التقارير الإستقصائية (CIN) وشبكة بي بي سي (BBC) في البوسنة. وقادت العديد من التحقيقات عبر الحدود وكشفت بنجاح شبكات غسيل الأموال المعقدة، ورشاوى بمليارات الدولارات، والمعاملات التجارية الغامضة لأعضاء في حكومة الأقلّيّة في آسيا الوسطى وأوروبا الشرقية. وتشمل أعمالها المغسلة لأذربيجانية، والإبنة الضالة، وأوراق بنما. من خلال الإجابة على هذه الأسئلة، توضح ميراندا كيف يمكن للصحفيين ” تَتبُّع الأموال” لكشف القصص الصحفية.
