The dominance of the English language might be skewing local and international reporting — as well as the global media development space — writes GIJN’s Managing Editor Tanya Pampalone. She wrote the opening essay for Hostwriter’s new book “Unbias The News: Why Diversity Matters for Journalism.”
The 11th Global Investigative Journalism Conference launched in Hamburg today to calls for retooled defiance, as a growing assault on human rights, democratic institutions, and the independent press rages around the world.
Can’t join us in Hamburg for the 11th Global Investigative Journalism Conference? There are still lots of ways you can follow along from home as more than 1,500 journalists from around the world gather to discuss their craft and share insights.
As we gather for the 11th Global Investigative Journalism Conference, this seems a good time to share again with our colleagues where the Global Investigative Journalism Network and its conferences come from. It was a simple idea at the end of the 20th century — to gather the world’s investigative journalists to share their knowledge with each other — that gave birth to GIJN, which has now grown to 182 member organizations in 77 countries.
When reporters for Puerto Rico’s Centro de Periodismo Investigativo — its Center for Investigative Journalism — first published hundreds of pages of a leaked Telegram chat involving high-ranking officials, they had no idea this would lead to massive street protests and end in the governor’s resignation. This huge story followed the Center’s award-winning work exposing how the death toll from Hurricane Maria in 2017 was far in excess of what officials admitted. GIJN’s Gaelle Faure spoke to CPI’s executive editor Carla Minet to find out what’s next for her team.
Investigative reporters have a bit of a reputation for being troublemakers — both outside and inside their newsrooms. Sometimes, this can get in the way of their work. In his new book “Investigative Journalism: A Survival Guide,” David Leigh gives sensible advice for those who wish to not only get along with their bosses, but to see their stories published.
Citizens can investigate, and they do — all over the world. Today we’re launching a new GIJN guide to help non-journalists investigate even more. It’s full of techniques used by investigative journalists that will be helpful to citizen investigators, too. These include searching the internet, finding out who owns corporations, investigating politicians, and much more.
Curiosity fuels investigations, and there’s no monopoly on who can be curious. Citizens can investigate, and they do. GIJN provides some great examples below. This GIJN guide aims to help non-journalists investigate even more. The sections teach the techniques used by investigative journalists.
Land Ownership Records: Useful But Hard to Find Researching property records is mainly a local game. In some countries, learning who owns a piece of land or a house is easily done via online searching, but in other places you’ll need to visit government offices and dig through records. That is, if the records exist. […]
Researching Politicians There are many ways to dig into a politician’s finances and political record. Official resources are a good place to start. Despite their frequent limitations, you might find: income and asset disclosures; campaign funding disclosures; court records; public records about actions in office. This resource will focus on using official records and assume […]
