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GIJN’s Reporting Guides
GIJN has compiled a series of guides and tipsheets for investigative journalists across a broad range of topics.
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Case Studies Reporting Tools & Tips
9 Watchdog Reporters and Lessons Learned from Their Mistakes
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.
Guide Resource
GIJN’s Guide to Undercover Reporting
In countries without public record transparency rules or strong source protection laws, going undercover can be one of the few tools reporters have to reveal public interest stories.
Climate
GIJN’s Guide to Investigating Sea Level Rise
For journalists, explaining the causes and consequences of rising sea levels is a critical and challenging assignment. To address this aspect of the climate crisis, GIJN is publishing an extensive guide to support journalists covering the impact of rising seas around the world.
Resource Tipsheet
Free, Game-Changing Data Extraction Tools that Require No Coding Skills
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.
Methodology News & Analysis
9 Tips for Investigative Journalists to Improve Their Writing
From respecting that different journalists have different styles of reporting to using voices from the field to tell the story, and from keeping it simple with clear language to just ‘getting started,’ here are tips from two experienced reporters for the write-up stage of an investigation.
Case Studies News & Analysis
From Source to Table: How Journalists Are Investigating Food Stories Worldwide
While food is often covered from a cultural lens, it is increasingly garnering the attention of investigative journalists, who are bringing new scrutiny to the environmental impacts of supply chains, labor conditions, and political influence linked to food.
News & Analysis
From COVID Scandals to Chemical Explosions: South Africa’s Leading Investigations from 2021
The Taco Kuiper Awards are South Africa’s prestigious prize for investigative reporting. Here are the opening remarks from the judges for the 16th annual award, the shortlist, and winners for reporting produced in 2021.
GIJN Webinar for African Journalists: Compelling Journalism — Fresh Approaches to Packaging Investigative Content
In this online webinar, free to all journalists across Africa and beyond, GIJN brings together four senior journalists who will discuss how their organizations have used available platforms and other ways to reach new and wider audiences, and they will share the tools they have created to distribute or repackage investigative content.
News & Analysis
Overcoming the Challenges to Investigative Journalism in Southern Africa
Journalists across southern Africa face a variety of obstacles to investigative reporting — from funding struggles to state censorship to legal intimidation — but are still innovating and collaborating to persevere.