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Investigative Apps: Useful Tools, if Rough on the Edges

There are a lot of websites out there that can help you find hidden information. But there are also software applications and browser plug-ins that can be of use to investigative journalists. Created by up-and-coming developers and enthusiasts on a budget, many of these programmes are rather unsophisticated, so don’t expect slick interfaces and 24-hour help desks. That said, if you can get past the jargon and rough-and-ready feel, you’ll find nifty little apps that can help you discover nuggets of information which would be unavailable through conventional means.

Data Journalism

Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links

by GIJN Staff • February 13, 2014

What’s the data driven journalism (#ddj) crowd tweeting about? Here are the week’s Top Data Journalism Links on Twitter (for February 6-12). This week our links include items from Morgenpost, Más Investigación, and Twitter blog, among others. Thanks to Marc Smith of Connected Action for gathering the links and graphing them.

News & Analysis

Reporters Without Borders Releases Press Freedom Index

by Reporters Without Borders • February 12, 2014

Reporters Without Borders today released its 2014 World Press Freedom Index, spotlighting major declines in media freedom in such varied countries as the United States, Central African Republic, and Guatemala while noting marked improvements in Ecuador, Bolivia, and South Africa. The same trio of Finland, Netherlands, and Norway heads the index again, while Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea continue to be the biggest information black holes, again occupying the last three positions. You can find RSF’s full index and a 3-dimensional map here. The report is also available in several languages other than English.

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A Resource Guide to the Millennium Development Goals

IPI has compiled a set of useful resources and contacts for journalists covering topics related to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). While certainly not exhaustive, the links below may help point the intrepid reporter in the right direction.

Stories of the Week: A Global Selection of Investigative Reports

by GIJN Staff • February 10, 2014

Here are some of the best investigative stories of the week, compiled by the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN). Today’s links include stories from Expressen.se, Tehelka, The Sochi Project, the New York Times, CBC, and Foreign Policy.

Reporting Tools & Tips

Holding Big Fish Accountable: How to Uncover Corruption

by Umar Cheema • February 10, 2014

In a 2011 Transparency International survey, more than 3,000 business executives from around the world were asked to assess the effectiveness of various approaches to weeding out corruption. The result: nearly half (49%) indicated that investigative journalism played a critical role. Respondents from Pakistan (73%) and Brazil (79%), countries where the press reports fiercely on suspected acts of corruption, placed particular faith in the media’s ability to uncover wrongdoing. Why did the participants feel so strongly that journalists can help?

Reporting Tools & Tips

The Art of the Interview

by María Emilia Martin • February 7, 2014

The interview is one of the—if not the—most important tools we as journalists have to obtain information, to expand on information we may have from other sources, and to clarify facts and see things from different perspectives. We use the interview to expand upon the basic “who, what, where, how, when and why” of newsgathering. This is true whatever beat we may be covering: health, economics, politics, or issues having to do with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Data Journalism

Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links

by GIJN Staff • February 6, 2014

What’s the data driven journalism (#ddj) crowd tweeting about? Here are the week’s Top Data Journalism Links on Twitter (for January 30-February 5). This week our links include items from HybLab, the Verification Handbook, and GIJN, among others. Thanks to Marc Smith of Connected Action for gathering the links and graphing them.

News & Analysis

On the Trail: How To Request Information from Authorities

by Maye Primera • February 6, 2014

Power sets barriers and the reporter pushes back against them—it’s an unwritten rule on which Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez believed all journalistic work is based. Some governments, however, have begun to voluntarily lower these barriers by approving legislation designed to make information more accessible to their citizens. To date, approximately 90 countries globally have freedom of information laws, which establish rules and deadlines for facilitating the collection of data.

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