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GIJN’s Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters
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This guide was written by GIJN staff reporter Rowan Philp and edited by Nikolia Apostolou, Reed Richardson, and Laura Dixon. Illustrations are by Marcelle Louw.
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Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters: Introduction
With key elections scheduled in numerous countries around the world in 2022, this new GIJN guide is designed to offer a broad array of tools, techniques, and resources to help watchdog reporters dig into almost any campaign, candidate, or election abuse.
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Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters: Chapter 1 — New Election Digging Tools
With key elections scheduled in numerous countries around the world in 2022, GIJN’s new guide to investigating elections includes this chapter on two powerful new tools that can be used to track down the prime disseminators of political misinformation online.
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Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters: Chapter 2 — Preparing for Elections
With key votes scheduled in many countries around the world in 2022, GIJN’s new guide to investigating elections includes this chapter offering comprehensive preparation tips for how to tackle investigations in upcoming elections.
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Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters: Chapter 3 – Investigating Candidates
With consequential elections scheduled in many countries around the world in 2022 and 2023, this fourth installment in GIJN’s new guide to investigating elections focuses on how to investigate political candidates and their human and financial connections.
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Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters: Chapter 4 — Investigating Political Messaging and Disinformation
With consequential elections scheduled in many countries around the world in 2022 and 2023, this final installment in GIJN’s new guide to investigating elections focuses on how to investigate online disinformation and the sources behind it.
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Webinar: How to Investigate Elections
The state of democracy is at its lowest point in decades. Around the world, free and fair elections face growing threats from disinformation campaigns, foreign interference, voter suppression, campaign corruption, violence, intimidation, and more. In this GIJN webinar, we bring together five senior journalists with experience in investigating electoral processes.
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Video: GIJC23 – Investigating Elections
In this panel we bring together four veteran reporters who have investigated political campaigns and elections around the world. They will offer tips on cutting-edge tools, investigating candidates, developing sources, tracking disinformation, and more.