At a JournalismFund.eu webinar, journalists Annie Kelly and Ian Urbina spoke of their experiences documenting human trafficking around the world.
Tools & Techniques
How to Land — and ‘Nail’ — the Accountability Interview: Tips from Recent Investigations
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Officials and executives who are under intense scrutiny often dodge interviews with journalists. Here, four veteran investigative reporters share tips on how to land and ‘nail’ tough accountability interviews, based on experiences from their recent investigative projects.
Data Journalism
Supercharge your Environmental Investigative Stories with Data and Visuals
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At the Pulitzer Center’s recent environmental investigative conference, Interconnected: Reporting the Climate Crisis, a panel of environmental reporters and designers explained how data and visualization can make environmental stories compelling.
Tools & Techniques
9 Watchdog Reporters and Lessons Learned from Their Mistakes
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GIJN asked a diverse group of nine investigative reporters to share a memorable misstep they’ve made in an investigative project, and a key lesson learned from the mistake.
Resources
GIJN’s Guide to Undercover Reporting
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Across the world undercover investigations have produced incredible, impactful stories. In countries without public record transparency rules or strong source protection laws, such sting operations can sometimes be an important tool for journalists to reveal public interest stories. Read GIJN’s guide to going undercover, covering everything from best practices to pitfalls and ethical considerations.
Tools & Techniques
Tips for Investigating Football and the World Cup in Qatar
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In this review of a recent GIJN webinar on investigating professional football, two senior journalists and a whistleblower discuss advice and tips for covering possible corruption and labor abuses tied to the upcoming 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
How They Did It
Aftenposten’s Housing Scandal Series Shook Norwegian Politics to Its Core
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Aftenposten’s blockbuster investigative series uncovered widespread misconduct and tax evasion among Norway’s leading politicians, and was recognized with SKUP’s top award for investigative reporting.
Data Journalism
5 Things Journalists Need to Know About Statistical Significance
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This tipsheet helps journalists avoid some of the most common errors related to statistcal significance in academic studies, which even trained researchers sometimes make.
Tools & Techniques
Q & A: Investigating TikTok Content Across the Russia-Ukraine Border
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To investigate what the Russian invasion looked like to TikTok users in Russia and Ukraine, and how the content available differed from one side of the border to the other, a team of journalists from the Norwegian broadcasting company NRK set out to investigate the social networking site’s algorithms and how a user’s location provides differing digital narratives about the war.
Tools & Techniques
Tips for Optimizing Google Search in Investigations, from Online Expert Henk van Ess
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At a recent GIJN online workshop, open source research expert Henk van Ess offered key tips and techniques for optimizing the use of Google search in your investigations.
GIJN Toolbox
Free, Game-Changing Data Extraction Tools that Require No Coding Skills
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In this edition of GIJN Toolbox, we examine the latest advancements from the IRE22 conference on data extraction and optical character recognition (OCR) tools for turning unwieldy documents into searchable spreadsheets.