The African Centre for Media Excellence fills a critical gap between journalism schools and newsrooms, but earlier this year Ugandan authorities ordered it to shut down and it’s now fighting for its survival.
Traditional investigative processes often fail in places like Sudan due to the absence of functioning regulators and the perilous situation on the ground. But there are ways to overcome these challenges.
The award-winning South African investigative journalist says he spent years ‘in the wilderness’ digging into spreadsheets and paperwork to find his niche.
Africa Uncensored has survived legal threats, intimidation, and politically motivated attacks on its funders to become a prominent force in Kenya’s investigative journalism landscape.
In this masterclass video, the Code for Africa investigative data journalist shares practical leads for reporters investigating Big Tech’s impact across the African continent.
Journalists in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, and surrounding countries are using procurement data to reveal corruption, and can offer lessons for journalists around the world.
More than 455 attendees representing 45 countries, 37 of them in Africa, attended Africa’s premier investigative journalism conference at Wits University.
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.
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.
Verah Okeyo and Anne Mawathe were frustrated with newsroom constraints and envisioned producing deeply reported stories that communities and policymakers could not ignore.
