As we prepare to gather in Johannesburg for #GIJC17, it’s worth noting the many challenges African journalists face. From South Africa to Somalia, July was a particularly ominous month for free expression on the continent.
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from August 14 to 20 has @Forbes mapping six years of American television news, the looming Kantar @infobeautyaward’s submission deadline and @sarahslo’s list of women in the field of data visualization.
More than 20 journalists worked across four countries to uncover the hidden abuses behind the production of sugar, cacao, bananas, coffee and African palm with slave-like conditions for workers, illegal business practices and sustained environmental damage. Here’s how they did it.
Membership programs are in a state of rapid evolution as more organizations see them as an imperative way to diversify revenue. The Membership Puzzle Project, a public research project into membership models, spoke to publishers around the world who have membership programs to find out what they have learned.
Ищете возможности для профессионального развития? Мы регулярно обновляем наш справочник по грантам и стипендиям для журналистов-расследователей со всего мира. Здесь вы найдёте множество краткосрочных и длительных программ, как для штатных репортёров, так и для фрилансеров.
Yong Jin Kim started up the first investigative unit at the Korean Broadcasting System, the biggest media group in South Korea. In 2013, frustrated by the constant need to fight the muzzles put on investigative journalism in mainstream news media, Kim co-founded the Korea Center for Investigative Journalism.
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from August 7 to 13 has @UpshotNYT plotting Game of Thrones characters in two dimensions, @paulbradshaw offering 10 principles for data journalism and data journalists at a @dagstuhl workshop with narrative patterns for data-driven storytelling.
Collaboration with newsroom developers and journalists is key to improving journalism. Hackastory spoke to 19 newsroom developers and journalists around the world for their best advice. Here are their top tips.
When ProPublica reporters published a questionnaire in February reaching out to women who had experienced life-threatening complications in childbirth, they only expected a few hundred responses. Instead, they received thousands — and the structured call-out became the basis of their maternal mortality series.
While legal notices can result in civil or criminal defamation cases, journalists in India say companies are using them as part of a tactic known as Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, or SLAPP, in an effort to intimidate or censor them. Indian journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta spoke to Aayush Soni about the increasingly popular intimidation tactic.
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from July 31 to August 6 has @nytimes charting increasingly hot summers, @qz on Wannacry ransomware hackers cashing out their ill-gotten gains and @tagesanzeiger mapping lightning prone areas in Switzerland.
Whether editing on an old Steenbeck or on a smartphone, the focus is still story. In this month’s MoJo Workin’ column, Ivo Burum offers up some basic tips for editing on the go.
সম্পাদনা হচ্ছে কোনো বিষয় নিয়ে তাৎক্ষনিক সব সম্ভাবনাকে এক সুতায় জুড়ে দেয়ার চিন্তা বা প্রক্রিয়া। আরো সুনির্দিষ্টভাবে বলতে গেলে, এটি হলো ছবির ভাষা (ভিজুয়াল ল্যাঙ্গুয়েজ), যা প্রতীকি মুহূর্ত, সমান্তরালে ঘটতে থাকা ঘটনা বা দীর্ঘ দৃশ্যকে পাশাপাশি বসিয়ে, ছবি আর শব্দের দ্যোতনা তৈরি করে। সম্পাদনা হচ্ছে এক রকম ডিজিটাল লেখালেখি, যা সাংবাদিকদের ভালো ভিজ্যুয়াল স্টোরিটেলার হতে শেখায়।
The local host of the 11th Global Investigative Journalism Conference, to be held in 2019, will be chosen by GIJN member representatives during the week of the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. GIJN is pleased to present GIJC19 proposals for four cities: Dublin, Ireland, from the Mary Raftery Journalism Fund; Hamburg, Germany, from Netzwerk Recherche; Lima, Peru, from Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS); and Riga, Latvia, from OCCRP/Stockholm School of Economics in Riga/The Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism(Re:Baltica).
تعتبر المساعدة في إيجاد تمويل من أكثر الاستفسارات التي تصل الشبكة العالمية للصحافة الاستقصائية، ففي ظل انتشار المنظمات الاعلامية غير الربحية، فإن الصحافيين بدأوا بالبحث عن طرق جديدة لجمع الأموال، وتنظيم الجانب التجاري لمؤسساتهم الصحفية. وفي هذا السياق استعانت الشبكة بالخبيرة في تمويل المؤسسات غير الربحية (بريجيت جالاجر)، والتي ساهمت في اطلاق الشبكة ، وجمعت الملايين من الدولارات لصالح منظمات غير ربحية، تجيب
Likes in your social network, praises from friends or numbers of clicks aren’t enough to drive an audience development strategy. Here’s what every independent news media organization needs to know about creating expertise in audience development that will help you measure and maximize your reach.
Voici un aperçu des quelque 120 rencontres organisées à l’occasion de la Conférence Internationale sur le Journalisme d’Investigation qui se tiendra au mois de novembre à Johannesburg, en Afrique du Sud.
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from July 24 to 30 has @qz comparing the cost of Trump’s golf trips to transgender healthcare, @visualisingdata sharing a chart-making directory and graphics guru @EdwardTufte applying Ezra Pound’s 23 “don’ts” for writing poetry to design.
What appeared to be a case of money laundering done through a network of laundromats and car washes turned out to be the largest corruption network in Brazilian history, and one that ultimately extended to at least 12 countries. If it weren’t for the collaborative efforts of journalists and media houses across the continent – and into Africa – the whole story could not have been told.
Чтобы стать действительно хорошим журналистом, необходимо отточить навыки ведения интервью до уровня искусства. В нашем руководстве – советы, как достичь мастерства.
Trying to make social media monitoring more manageable? First Draft News has some tactics and tools to help journalists sort through the mire on Twitter and Facebook as well as the more edgy 4chan and wildly popular Reddit.
منذ خمسة أعوام، كان يُنظر إلى الصحفيين الذين يستخدمون قواعد البيانات أو يستعينون بقراصنة إنترنت ومبرمجين باعتبارهم مهووسين، أما الآن فقد اختلف محيط العمل؛ أصبحنا على دراية بقصص فساد حقيقية مثل وثائق بنما التي أكدت وجود اتحاد بين الصحفيين والتكنولوجيا، كذلك فإن منح جائزة بوليترز للتحقيق الذي كشف الجانب المظلم للصناعة الخارجية عام ٢٠١٧ هو اعتراف بالهزة والتأثير الذي أحدثته هذه الطريقة الجديدة من العمل.
Редакциям новостей больше не нужны огромные бюджеты для анализа данных – можно легко получить доступ к бесплатными или недорогим базовым инструментам обработки данных.
How do you set up a fact-checking project? Experts from start-ups Chequeado, ColombiaCheck and UYCheck offer up some tips on getting started, from the basics of the fact-checking process to staffing and sustainability.
What’s the global #ddj community tweeting about? Our NodeXL analysis from July 17 to 23 has @ajc intern @stephanierlamm mapping closed data, @zeitonline mapping the path of voluntary rescue boats in the Mediterranean Sea and @PPLAFF on the corruption scandal around Democratic Republic of the Congo President Joseph Kabila.
Fifteen years ago, Abraji — the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism — was first formed. As they celebrate an impressive anniversary, Abraji is launching the ambitious Tim Lopes Project to help protect journalists under fire across Brazil.
Verifying video materials should be a routine part of reporting, but knowing how to use the digital tools to verify fake content is just one part of the skill. The creative techniques behind video verification are even more important.
What’s the global #ddj community tweeting about? Our NodeXL mapping from July 10 to 16 has Dwarshuis on the Airbnb takeover of Amsterdam, @blprnt on taking a systems approach to data and @SPIEGELONLINE and @Correctiv_org on Big Pharma’s payments to doctors.
