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Collaborating to Uncover ‘Putin’s Shadow War’ in Scandinavia
A unique collaboration between four Nordic public broadcasters sought to uncover the scale of Russian covert spying operations in the region.
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GIJC23 – Holding Algorithms Accountable Through Collaboration
Governments and corporations worldwide are quietly deploying AI technologies that can discriminate and harm the most vulnerable members of society. Yet the impact of predictive and surveillance technologies on communities around the world often goes unreported and remains invisible. How can we bridge the gap? And what is the best way to investigate AI? In […]
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The Story of InterNation: The World’s First (Maybe) Investigative Journalism Network
As corporate power and criminal gangs started moving ever more frequently across national frontiers, why not cooperate to track and expose them?
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Straddling Two Worlds as an Investigative Journalist: ARIJ’s Hoda Osman
Hoda Osman, executive editor at Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), discusses how she still covers the region while based in the US.
2023 Candidates for GIJN’s Board of Directors
This August and September, member representatives of GIJN will vote to elect 7 members of its 15-member Board of Directors. Here is a list of candidates who have submitted their names for GIJN’s Board of Directors.
Global Investigative Journalism Conference Moves to Gothenburg, Sweden, Sept. 19-22, 2023
The 2023 Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC23) is now scheduled for September 19 – 22 in the historic city of Gothenburg, Sweden. GIJN is excited to join with two local co-hosts for the 13th iteration of its conference: The Fojo Media Institute at Linnaeus University, and Föreningen Grävande Journalister, Sweden’s national association of investigative journalists.
Member Profiles
CORRECTIV, Germany’s First Nonprofit Newsroom, Leads With Innovative Journalism
CORRECTIV boasts a €4 million annual budget, a staff of 60, and has become one of the world’s largest nonprofit centers for investigative journalism. As founder David Schraven had hoped, the outlet has delivered blockbuster investigations and trained aspiring journalists, as well as staged plays and exhibitions inspired by current affairs that serve to bridge the gap between art and news.
News & Analysis
Document of the Day: US Global Anti-Corruption Plan Spotlights Value of Investigative Journalism
The Biden White House spotlighted its support for investigative journalism as part of a new strategy for fighting corruption around the world. To strengthen the investigative capacity of journalists, it is funding the USAID’s PROSAFE project, helping to “create a regional clearinghouse for investigative journalism that provides a publishing outlet for stories too dangerous to be published with an individual byline, and providing an umbrella organization for security, mentoring, and collaboration among journalists.”
Renewed Resolve from Global Summit of Investigative Journalists
After 80 panels and workshops — presented by 200 speakers and attended by close to 1700 editors and reporters from 148 countries — the 12th Global Investigative Journalism Conference closed with renewed resolve for innovative investigations, and a broad invitation to an in-person conference in Sydney in 2022.
Reporting Tools & Tips
How to Investigate Money Laundering
The criminal blueprint and its elements need to be understood to efficiently follow the money and stop criminals from doing business as usual. Criminals, both the ones just starting out as well as those who are already well established, have regional and global infrastructure that is continuously built and maintained by what the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) team calls the “criminal services industry.” Here’s OCCRP’s Paul Radu on how it works and how to untangle it.
Editor’s Pick: Best Investigative Journalism in Sub-Saharan Africa 2020
In this year’s GIJN’s Editor’s Pick series, Africa editor Benon Herbert Oluka compiled a list of some of the top investigative stories produced and published or broadcast by media organizations based in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020.
Member Profiles
Czech Investigative Nonprofit Follows the Money
International organized crime received little scrutiny in the Czech press until the Czech Centre for Investigative Journalism was founded in 2013. They work with media partners across the region on collaborative projects that have helped bring down senior officials and expose the activities of mafia bosses, including an investigation with Slovak reporter Ján Kuciak, who was killed in 2018. Ian Willoughby profiles the Czech nonprofit for GIJN.
The 11th Global Investigative Journalism Conference — A Sneak Preview
The Global Investigative Journalism Conference is the world’s largest international gathering of investigative and data journalists. Called “The World Expo of Muckraking,” the conferences have brought together over 7,000 of the globe’s most enterprising people in media since 2001. Held only once every two years, the conferences are widely credited with playing a key role in the rapid global expansion of investigative and data journalism. #GIJC19 — scheduled for this September 26-29 in Hamburg, Germany — will be our 11th conference. We expect over a thousand journalists from 130 countries.
Data Journalism
What the Experts Expect for Data Journalism in 2019
With the global spread of data journalism, the advent of artificial intelligence and the increasing use of big data moving alongside a rapid rise of disinformation, GIJN asked data journalism experts around the world what they anticipate for 2019. Here are their thoughts on the major trends, ideas and technologies that will affect how we do our jobs.
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GIJN Launches Bangla Edition
GIJN has launched its latest regional language edition, GIJN in Bangla, in partnership with Bangladesh-based member, the Management and Resources Development Initiative. Each day, we’ll be sharing the best investigative tips and tools, groundbreaking stories, grants and fellowships, data sets and more.
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Against the Odds, Investigative Journalism Persists in Middle East
In the past year, a group of Arab journalists has been working secretly in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Algeria, and Yemen as part of a global network of investigative reporters mining the so called “Panama Papers.” They found that some Arab strongmen and their business partners are linked to offshore companies and bank accounts. What’s astonishing about this story is not that Arab dictators are going offshore to hide their wealth and evade sanctions. It’s that a community of Arab journalists is continuing to do investigative reporting in a region where there is increasingly little tolerance for accountability of any kind.
Case Studies
Secrets, fuites, fleuves : comment le journalisme d’investigation transfrontalier se déploie en Afrique
#AfricaFocusWeek Du 18 au 24 novembre 2024, GIJN met en lumière le journalisme d’investigation en Afrique. Dans cet article, les journalistes Patrick Egwu et Ekpali Saint se penchent sur la montée en puissance du journalisme cross-border sur le continent africain, mais aussi sur les freins et défis à surmonter.
Actualités et analyses
COLPIN 2024: Celebrating Latin America’s Investigative Journalism in Madrid
The 2024 Latin American Conference of Investigative Journalism (COLPIN) brought together journalists from Latin America, Europe, and Africa.
Reporting Tools & Tips Teaching & Training
Latin American Journalists Share Best Practices on Migration Reporting
Collaborative journalism, feminist perspectives, diverse newsrooms, and support from local journalists can lead to better coverage of migration.
Inside GIJN News & Analysis
2024 Candidates for GIJN’s Board of Directors
This October and November, GIJN member representatives will vote to elect three regional representatives and four at-large directors for the 15-person Board of Directors.
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GIJN Africa: Funding and Grants
Nonprofit organizations dedicated to offering grants in support of investigative journalism in Africa.
LATAM Focus Member Profiles News & Analysis
The Power of Collaboration: El CLIP and the Plan to Transform Latin America’s Investigative Ecosystem
CLIP was founded by three leading journalists who shared the conviction that to mirror the transnational challenges journalists face in Latin America, the stories had to be cross-border too.
LATAM Focus News & Analysis
‘We Are Just Warming up Our Engines’: What’s Next for Investigative Journalism in Latin America
We asked GIJN’s Latin America members what characteristics define investigative journalism in the region, and about their greatest challenges.
Awards, Grants, & Fellowships News & Analysis
GIJN Honors Chuck Lewis: Pioneer of Nonprofit Investigative Journalism
US muckraker Chuck Lewis founded two Pulitzer Prize-winning news organizations, launched innovation incubators, and authored several investigative books.
Member Profiles Press Freedom
CENOZO, the Organization Shoring Up Watchdog Reporting in West Africa
GIJN member The Norbert Zongo Cell for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO) strives to promote journalism in the public interest.
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NarcoFiles, Political Influencers, Digital Mercenaries: 2023’s Best Investigative Stories from Spain and Latin America
This year’s round-up of the top investigative stories in Spanish explores a wide range, from deforestation in the Mexican Caribbean to drug trafficking on Spain’s Costa del Sol.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Working With Hackers: Where — and How — Journalists Should Use These Sources
The use of hacked data is an ethical challenge for investigative journalists. But responsible use of this information can lead to public interest revelations that would otherwise stay hidden.