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News & Analysis

Want to Change How Investigative Journalism is Done in Africa? Here are 14 Recommendations

by Ntibinyane Ntibinyane • October 3, 2018

More than 10 years ago, the first nonprofit investigative journalism organization in Africa was established. More than 20 countries throughout the continent now have similar units. What are the motivating factors behind the proliferation of these organizations on the continent? Who is funding them and how? And are these organizations making an impact in Africa? Ntibinyane Ntibinyane rounded up 14 recommendations for GIJN based on his recent study for the Reuters Institute at Oxford University.

News & Analysis

Were the Gupta Leaks South Africa’s Watergate?

by Jon Allsop • September 24, 2018

The biggest story since the end of apartheid helped bring down a president. But a year on, its effect on South African journalism has been less clear. Jon Allsop filed this report from Cape Town for GIJN.

News & Analysis

South Africa’s State of Surveillance: How Journalists Are Targets for Spying

by Murray Hunter • July 24, 2018

There is a growing body of evidence that state spies have been targeting journalists in South Africa. Murray Hunter from the Right2Know Campaign, writes for GIJN about their recently released report which looks at 10 case studies of surveillance against journalists to unpack what happened, how it happened and which parties appear to be responsible.

Case Studies

How They Did It: Inside #WestAfricaLeaks’ Exposé of the Offshore Economy

by Daniela Q. Lépiz • June 25, 2018

In late May, journalists from CENOZO in West Africa — with support from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists — published #WestAfricaLeaks, the largest collaboration of investigative journalists in the region, exposing tactics used by regional tycoons, multinational companies and politicians to take their money offshore and out of reach. Here’s how they did it.

Case Studies

African Investigative Journalism Takes on the Kleptocrats

by Evelyn Groenink • June 15, 2018

A collective of African Investigative journalists has found that publishing stories about corruption in their home countries doesn’t always put much pressure on those leaders who plunder state resources, but publishing in the countries where their donors live has the potential to hit them where it hurts — their bank accounts.

Case Studies

How They Did It: Tracking the Copious Travels of Cameroon’s President

by Emmanuel Freudenthal • May 1, 2018

The full scale of Cameroon’s President Paul Biya’s jaunts abroad since he took power 35 years ago had never been calculated until now. Journalist Emmanuel Freudenthal details how he and two of his colleagues painstakingly pored over almost 4,000 newspaper pages to establish the number of days Biya had spent overseas on private trips and the amount the lavish trips cost the country.

Case Studies

The Balancing Act of Donor-Funded Journalism: A Case Study from South Africa

by Mia Malan • February 14, 2018

What started out in 2013 as a small donor-funded health journalism center situated inside a legacy newspaper in South Africa has transformed into a staff of 10, and 15 regular contributors across the continent. Today, Bhekisisa consistently produces impactful reports which help to influence policy and decision making, set agendas and define conversations.

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#GIJC17: Spotlight on Africa

by Safeeyah Kharsany • December 4, 2017

Almost 500 African journalists met with their global counterparts in Johannesburg at #GIJC17, the largest international gathering of investigative journalists, to sharpen their skills for a new era of digging out the muck.

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