Local producers are key figures vital to the success of many overseas investigations. Here are best practices for fixers when working with foreign reporters.
Our round-up of the best in recent data journalism also highlights deepfakes targeting Ukrainian journalists, Europe’s sprawling landfills, and how Peru’s youth are locked away in prisons.
Rising political backlash and harmful policies threaten queer lives. Covering systemic failures that affect LGBTQ+ people requires rigorous, sensitive reporting.
At GIJC25, veteran journalists from Indonesia, Norway, and Colombia shared practical, replicable strategies for uncovering illegal fishing and maritime wildlife trafficking at sea.
From combining investigative stories with theater events to livestreaming editorial meetings, these newsrooms have adapted to dwindling revenue streams in novel ways.
Scams now function as sprawling transnational criminal enterprises. But journalists can expose these networks by following inconsistencies, mapping operations, and collaborating across borders.
At GIJC25, Peruvian investigative journalist Fabiola Torres showed reporters how to uncover the systems behind pharma monopolies, and how to connect market structures to human impact.
Tackling religion stories can require creative ways to overcome lack of access, and how to seek help during difficult times.
Journalists detailed how they build dossiers on oligarchs, mine corporate and sanctions databases, and use leaks – all while managing legal and security risks.
At GIJC25, experts from Venezuela, Ghana, and India highlighted AI tools and collaborative strategies that exposed electoral disinformation campaigns.
Women investigative reporters face harassment, surveillance, and personal risk. Here are practical strategies to confront these challenges from female journalists on the front lines.
The 15th Global Investigative Journalism Conference will be held in 2027 in the Netherlands, co-hosted by GIJN and VVOJ (The Dutch-Flemish Association of Investigative Journalists).
These three winners and recipient of a special citation represent outstanding journalism from developing or transitioning countries, carried out under threat or in perilous conditions.
In her keynote address, the Rappler CEO issued an urgent call for the investigative reporting community to embrace creative solutions in pursuit of the facts and a sustainable future.
Journalists reporting on water scarcity often face a lack of transparency, limited access to sites and sources, unwieldy data, and a resistant media environment.
The former lead Rwanda genocide prosecutor explains old flaws and new solutions for the international criminal justice system.
At GIJC25, veteran freelancers from Africa, Asia, and Europe shared tips for finding funding, managing security, and negotiating with editors over rates, commissions, and deadlines.
Undercover specialists warn that investigative tactics must be a last resort—especially in the AI age, where metadata, surveillance, and deepfakes raise new ethical and safety risks.
This reporting guide is designed to help journalists understand the causes of food inequity, famine, and starvation as well as the global agencies and data sources tracking these phenomena.
This guide offers journalists a new detection tool and seven advanced techniques for spotting probable AI-generated content.
Featuring tips, techniques, and best practices for covering the algorithms — and their corresponding impacts — used by tech giants’ social media platforms.
This comprehensive guide includes expert advice from more than two dozen specialists and journalists.
This reporting guide is designed for journalists worldwide — so they can research and produce compelling stories on how countries and companies seek to exert influence abroad.
Featuring advice on fact checking, digital security tips, interview techniques, and guidelines for editors.
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On a rolling basis, the Pulitzer Center encourages journalists or newsrooms seeking funds for projects covering conflict, or to meet the increased costs of reporting safely from conflict zones, to submit a proposal for the Center’s conflict reporting grant. Proposals should include a 250-word summary of the project, a preliminary budget estimate, a distribution plan, and a letter from the editor of the proposed outlet that states the publication takes full responsibility for your safety — particularly important for freelancers. For more information, applicants can review the grant application guidelines or contact reacheditorial@pulitzercenter.org.
Source: Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network
At the 14th Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC25) in Kuala Lumpur, five media organizations from the South Asia region — home to 2 billion people — announced they were uniting to counter rising threats to investigative journalism. The South Asia Journalism Collective (SAJC) aims to foster collaboration among journalists and newsrooms in South Asia and support cross-border reporting. The founding members are: Center for Investigative Reporting (Sri Lanka), Digitally Right (Bangladesh), Media Unlimited (Pakistan), Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network (NIMJN) (Nepal), and The Reporters' Collective (India).
Reporters interested in spending a year away from the newsroom mulling over the challenges and opportunities of journalism in the future are invited to apply for the John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford. The fellowships are designed as an opportunity to step back from demands of daily work to reimagine "the future of journalism." Selected journalists work on leadership in a rapidly changing field, and use their time to "explore ideas, experiment with new approaches, and develop practices that strengthen journalism's essential role in building informed, democratic communities." Applicants need at least five years of professional work experience. Deadline: December 3
Source: Alfred Friendly Press Partners
Alfred Friendly Press Partners, a nonprofit that trains journalists in exile based in the US and has worked with over 400 journalists from 90 countries since 1984, is accepting applications for its 2026 program. The fellowship is a four-week, in-person program that builds skills in the security, legal, and journalism and entrepreneurship fields. The topic of the psychosocial aspects of exile is embedded throughout the program. Essential expenses such as housing, food, transportation will be covered and a living stipend of US$2,000 per fellow is included. English proficiency is required.
The program for the 2025 African Investigative Journalism Conference (#AIJC25), the largest gathering of working investigative journalists on the continent, has been released. Hosted by Wits University in Johannesburg, the AIJC is in its 21st year and will be held from 5 - 7 November. The opening keynote speaker will be Fatou Bensouda, former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. “As always, the conference will offer a wide range of training on everything from data wrangling, follow the money exercises, health, whistleblowers, journalists’ safety, innovation, migration, and many more critical topics,” said convener Beauregard Tromp.
A Kyrgyz court has labeled independent news outlets — GIJN members Kloop Media and Temirov Live and Ait Ait Dese — as well as the activities of their founders “extremist” and ordered a ban on their online activities. The ruling will be enforced by the Ministry of Digital Development, but no additional details about the case were provided. The decision is part of a recent and intensifying crackdown on independent media that has included raids, arrests, orders for closure, and prison sentences for journalists. Temirov Live and Kloop said they will appeal the ruling.
Source: Philip Merrill College of Journalism
The Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland has announced the 2025 winners of the Maria Ressa Prizes for Courage in Journalism, named for the Filipino journalist, press freedom advocate, and 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Myanmarese documentarian Shin Daewe, the OCCRP, The Haitian Times, and student journalists at UCLA, Indiana University, and Columbia University were selected the 2025 winners; journalists who died covering the war in Gaza were also recognized with a special citation. The honor comes with a US$3,000 cash prize.
The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) and Instituto Talanoa have launched a program to encourage journalism coverage of climate adaptation, one of the central themes of the forthcoming COP30 summit in November in Belém, Brazil. Climate adaptation involves policies, technologies, and practices to better deal with the impacts of climate change that are already happening. The initiative includes nine reporting grants and training opportunities for journalists from all over Brazil with international partners, and is open to journalists from countries in Brazil, Europe, and Asia. The first application deadline is November 1, 2025.
Two imprisoned journalists have won the Sakharov Prize, the EU’s top human rights honor. Andrzej Poczobut, a correspondent for Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, was convicted of “harming Belarus’ national security” and is currently serving an eight-year sentence in the Novopolotsk penal colony. Mzia Amaghlobeli, who founded two of Georgia’s independent media outlets, is serving a two-year prison sentence for slapping a police chief during an anti-government protest. European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said: “Both are journalists currently in prison on trumped-up charges simply for doing their work and for speaking out against injustice.”
The TV news show of one of Italy’s leading investigative journalists, Sigfrido Ranucci, announced on October 17 that an explosive device had detonated under his car, outside his home in Pomezia near Rome. No one was injured in the explosion, which destroyed his car as well as his family’s other car and the house next door. "The force of the explosion was so strong that it could have killed anyone passing by at the moment," Ranucci news show Report said in a statement on X. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni strongly condemned what she called a "serious act of intimidation.”
The award-winning reporter and deputy CEO of Taiwan’s The Reporter says public support is the “vital force” that ensures investigative journalism continues to exist.
Kunda Dixit speaks to GIJN about the challenges he has faced in a storied career in investigative reporting, from going into exile to reporting in the face of legal attacks.
The investigative journalist — who has covered topics from ISIS to troll armies — talks to GIJN about his novel reporting methods and keeping investigative journalism alive in Turkey.
Blanshe Musinguzi’s award-winning investigation focused on timber smuggling in East Africa. He talks with GIJN about his career so far, and what he’s learned along the way.
The Sigma Awards celebrate the best data journalism from around the world. Submissions are now open for data projects published in 2025.
Understanding, organizing, and validating data directly affects the accuracy of stories. New tools make cleaning accessible to journalists without coding.
With basic web knowledge, guidance, and examples, even non-coding journalists can build a scraper with large language models.
Since 2020, the exiled outlet’s investigations have led to approximately 90 sanction actions, proving how journalism can make a real impact on authoritarian regimes.
This small yet notorious investigative outlet was formed almost by accident — but has gone on to investigate electoral issues, conflict, and the death of an Indian journalist.
Being a journalist in Haiti means not only witnessing daily violence but also being a potential target, one news outlet remains a home for those who refuse to stop reporting.
GIJN sat down with newsroom leaders from the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI) to discuss the group’s history, its current business model, and where it plans to go next.
The 14th Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC25) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, assembled more than 1,500 journalists from over 135 countries and territories to hold workshops, share best practices, and build a community increasingly confronting funding crises, disinformation campaigns, digital surveillance, and authoritarian threats. This project is a compendium of GIJN’s coverage of the conference.
This regional spotlight series examines the world’s largest and most populous continent, which is also the host of the 2025 Global Investigative Journalism Conference. Asia serves as a unique laboratory in the global media landscape, but journalists here face multifaceted challenges, from censorship to physical threats, digital surveillance to financial pressures. Despite this, watchdog reporters […]
Our third regional spotlight series examines the challenges facing our members and other outlets in the Middle East and North Africa, such as war, backsliding democracies, self-censorship, exile, surveillance and imprisonment of journalists, and the hostile legal environment — and why this reality on the ground makes investigative journalism there all the more essential.
Our second regional spotlight series examines the successes and challenges facing our members in Africa and others reporting from the continent. These articles tell the stories of growing journalistic collaboration, courage, and innovation in the face of repression, legal intimidation, lack of access to information, and even physical threats.
A webinar exploring how investigative journalists can document human rights abuses in war zones, with a focus on methods to ensure the information gathered can later be used by legal investigators or international courts.
Satellite imagery has become a game-changer for investigative journalism, offering powerful tools to uncover hidden stories.
The 2024 elections marked a seismic year for democracies worldwide, presenting investigative journalists with unique challenges and opportunities.
In Africa, more than in most other parts of the world, the hurdles that journalists have to overcome to report beyond their own countries or continent are numerous.
