News & Analysis
After 21 Years, AIJC Signs Off from South Africa in Style. Next Stop: Kenya
More than 455 attendees representing 45 countries, 37 of them in Africa, attended Africa’s premier investigative journalism conference at Wits University.
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Getting Started in Investigative Journalism
Mentoring Under Pressure: How One Nigerian Woman Is Shaping the Next Generation of Investigative Reporters
Through her two-plus decades of mentoring young journalists, Joke Kujenya has left a legacy of fostering and strengthening investigative reporting in a difficult press climate.
Data Journalism
Rewriting the Rules of Digital Verification: How African Investigative Journalists Are Building New Data Models
The global nonprofit WITNESS seeks to address one of the biggest data gaps in the digital verification landscape: the dependence on tools-based methods that lack local knowledge.
News & Analysis
Why Two Kenyan Journalists Launched a Startup to Change Global Health Storytelling
Verah Okeyo and Anne Mawathe were frustrated with newsroom constraints and envisioned producing deeply reported stories that communities and policymakers could not ignore.
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You Can Try Your Best and Fail, But Still You Learn: Insights from Africa’s Investigative Journalist of the Year
Blanshe Musinguzi’s award-winning investigation focused on timber smuggling in East Africa. He talks with GIJN about his career so far, and what he’s learned along the way.
News & Analysis
Inside the Cross-Border Network Exposing the Environmental Crisis Facing Africa’s Longest River
Co-founded by two journalists, InfoNile has grown into a sprawling ecosystem of cross-border investigations, multimedia storytelling, and data-driven reporting.
Member Profiles
Fighting for Accountability and Press Freedom in West Africa
For almost 30 years, the Media Foundation for West Africa has supported watchdog journalism and press freedom in both democratic and authoritarian states across the region.
How They Did It
Exposing Extremism Networks in Sub-Saharan Africa Using Open Source Tools
As extremism spreads across sub-Saharan Africa, journalists are turning to open source tools to track the networks and physical movement of these often violent groups.
Resource Tipsheet
Investigating US Government — and Trump Administration — Influence in Your Country
The US government engages with virtually every country in the world and each new president can radically change its policy. Here’s GIJN’s updated tipsheet on digging into global US influence.