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GIJN Schedules 2025 Board Election
Nominations are now open for three regional representatives, and for four at-large director positions on the organization’s board.
GIJC25
‘Journalism in Exile Has Been Somewhat Romanticized’: The Challenges of Being Forced to Investigate from Afar
Joseph Poliszuk — co-founder of Venezuela’s Armando.info — has spent years investigating illegal mining and drug trafficking. He speaks to GIJN ahead of his appearance at GIJC25 in Malaysia.
How They Did It
Connecting Brazil’s Financial Market to Environmental Violations: The Hidden Impacts of Agribusiness on Indigenous Lands
Investment funds issued to finance Brazil’s agribusiness sector bundle various bonds — some of them labeled “green” — but are tied to socio-environmental violations or potential land grabbing.
News & Analysis
Why Two Kenyan Journalists Launched a Startup to Change Global Health Storytelling
Verah Okeyo and Anne Mawathe were frustrated with newsroom constraints and envisioned producing deeply reported stories that communities, policymakers, and global audiences could not ignore.
GIJC25 Program Sneak Peek — Can’t Miss Expert Panels and Workshops
With 15 different conference tracks and more than 150 planned sessions and workshops, GIJC25 will feature a wealth of esteemed journalists, data gurus, and subject matter experts.
How They Did It
How ProPublica Exposed a Flawed AI Tool ‘Munching’ Hundreds of Veteran Contracts
The reporting team used leaked documents and an interview with the AI tool’s developer to reveal numerous mistakes behind the Trump administration’s cost-cutting measures of veterans’ care.
GIJC25
‘Every Reporter has an AI Story to Tell’: Tips from an Award-Winning Journalist on the Risks of AI
Karen Hao — one of the world’s leading voices on the impacts and potential harms of artificial intelligence — speaks to GIJN ahead of her appearance at GIJC25 in Malaysia.
Data Journalism Top 10
Where Plane Crash Survivors Sit, African Labor Fueling AI Hype, DOGE Guts US Health Agency, Syria’s Most Feared Prison
GIJN’s latest round-up of the best in data journalism also features stories on Xi Jinping’s military purge, workplace harassment in Mexico’s hospitals, and climate change-fueled flooding in Pakistan.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Tips for Researching Massive Water Consumption by Data Centers
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee offer insights into sources and techniques for investigating water usage by major tech companies’ data centers.
Investigative Techniques
Updated Test of 24 LLMs for Geolocation
In this latest test, Bellingcat researcher Foeke Postma runs a set of geolocation challenges using two dozen of previous and most current versions of popular AI platforms, with varying results.
How They Did It
How a Le Monde Team Uncovered 300 Contaminants in France’s Groundwater
French investigative reporter and data journalist Raphaëlle Aubert shares the methods and the data behind her team’s major investigation into Europe’s polluted groundwater crisis.
Case Studies Member Profiles
How Italy’s First Investigative Center Combines Italian and International Angles
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.
Data Journalism Top 10
Deadly Mediterranean Migration, Putin’s Military Gains, Spain’s Enduring Wildfires, Gambling on Premier League Kits
Our round-up of the best in recent data journalism also features stories from Japan, Nigeria, Gaza, and Namibia.
News & Analysis
Brazilian Fact-Check Project Shifts Strategy to Fight Misinformation, Drops Labels to Focus on Sources and Tactics
The changes represent a methodological overhaul of the initiative, which launched in 2018 and now brings together 42 media outlets from different parts of Brazil that work collaboratively.
Guide Resource
Reporter’s Guide to Detecting AI-Generated Content
This guide offers journalists a new detection tool and seven advanced techniques for spotting probable AI-generated content.
Guide Resource
GIJN Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes
This comprehensive guide includes expert advice from more than two dozen specialists and journalists.
Guide Resource
Guide to Investigating Social Media Algorithms
Featuring tips, techniques, and best practices for covering the algorithms — and their corresponding impacts — used by tech giants’ social media platforms.
Guide Resource
GIJN Guide to Investigating Foreign Lobbying
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.
Guide Resource
Guide: Introduction to Investigative Journalism
Featuring advice on fact checking, digital security tips, interview techniques, and guidelines for editors.
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Yemeni Journalists Killed in Targeted Israeli Airstrike
Source: International Federation of Journalists
A recent Israeli airstrike targeted a media center in Sanaa, reportedly killing dozens of civilians and at least nine media workers. The building hit in the bombing housed the offices of the 26 September newspaper, the official news outlet of the Houthi-controlled Yemeni Army, which employs military and civilian journalists. Israel claimed its attack was a retaliatory blow on the "Houthi Public Relations Department" for a previous Houthi drone strike inside Israel. IFJ General Secretary Anthony Bellanger decried the "appalling massacre," saying: "Targeting journalists is a grave violation of international law and an attack on the public’s right to know. We join our affiliate, the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate, in demanding an immediate, swift and truly independent investigation into this tragedy."
CPJ Announces Recipients of the 2025 International Press Freedom Awards
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has announced the honorees for the 2025 International Press Freedom Awards. Journalists from China, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan, and Tunisia will be honored at the 35th annual International Press Freedom Awards in New York on November 20, 2025. CPJ’s 2025 awardees are Dong Yuyu, (China), Elvira del Pilar Nole and Juan Carlos Tito (Ecuador), Bolot Temirov (Kyrgyzstan), and Sonia Dahmani (Tunisia). CPJ noted that "two of this year’s awardees are currently behind bars for their journalism, and three were forced to flee their home countries and now report from exile."
JournalismAI Festival 2025 To Take Place in London
The JournalismAI Festival, which explores the intersection between journalism and artificial intelligence, will take place in London at Prospero House on November 11-12. Polis, the media think tank of the London School of Economics (LSE) is organizing the event with support from the Google News Initiative. This year’s theme explores how AI supports new production, editorial workflows, audience engagement, and distribution, and also investigates how AI is reshaping how journalists report, research, and verify information. Events will include networking sessions, fireside chats, and hands-on workshops. Some sessions will be livestreamed.
Russian Court Sentences Ukrainian Journalist to 16 Years in Penal Colony
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Russian authorities to free Heorhiy Levchenko, a Ukrainian journalist captured in August 2023 “in retaliation” for his reporting on the war from occupied territories, according to a CPJ statement. A court in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied city of Melitopol sentenced Levchenko to 16 years in a high-security penal colony for “high treason” and “calling for extremism online” because he used a Telegram channel to share with Ukrainian forces the location of Russian units. Levchenko was the administrator of the Ukrainian news site RIA-Melitopol’s Telegram channel, and also also organized a network of correspondents.
Ticket Sales Open for Climate Arena Conference
The Climate Arena conference — which will this year be held at Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary, on 10-11 October — brings together journalists, scientists, and researchers with the goal of improving climate investigation and reporting in Europe. The “hands-on, working” conference is focused on sharing tools and methods, datasets, insights, and fostering collaborations and new cross-border projects. Panels will cover how to spot false climate solutions, trace international climate finance, and report on the impact of deregulation in Europe. There will also be hands-on sessions on using satellite data, mapping tools, and protecting your sources.
Grants for Independent Media in the Western Balkans
The Innovation. Media. Minds. Program, managed by the Goethe Institute and funded by the European Union (EU), is accepting applications for independent media grants for outlets based in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, or Serbia. The grants are intended to support independent media outlets and organizations in the region that promote pluralism of expression, and to boost their cooperation with public service media. Applications must operate as an independent media outlet/media organization. Grants of up to €30,000 (US$34,783) will be awarded. The deadline to apply is September 18, 2025.
Amid Killing of Journalists, GIJN Reiterates Call for Unrestricted Access and Protection of Press in Gaza
Source: Committee to Protect Journalists
In the wake of recent airstrikes that have killed multiple journalists from Al Jazeera and the Associated Press in Gaza, GIJN reiterates its call for unrestricted access and the safety of the press to operate inside the territory. The organization's executive director, Emilia Díaz-Struck, signed onto the letter from the Committee to Protect Journalists, joining more than 200 other global leaders who are demanding that Israel allow "immediate, independent, and unrestricted international media access to Gaza and for full protection of journalists who continue to report under siege."
Fellowships for Pulitzer Center Ocean Reporting Network
The Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network (ORN) creates a “collaborative ecosystem” of journalists around the world that uncover harmful and illegal practices related to the ocean — such as fishing and extractive industries and systemic threats to marine biodiversity and coastal communities. The Pulitzer Center is now accepting applications for the next cohort of ORN fellows. At least nine journalists with a proven track record of environmental investigations will be selected for the remote program. The year-long fellowship will cover a reporter’s salary for the duration. The deadline to apply is September 12, 2025.
Registration Open for Global Disinformation Summit
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA), Proyecto Desconfío (Argentina), and Fundación para el Periodismo (Bolivia) have announced that registration is now open for the fifth edition of the 2025 Global Summit on Disinformation. It will be held on September 17 and 18, online and free of charge. The summit brings together journalists, researchers, technologists, educators, and organizations to focus on the effects of disinformation on democracy and news quality, as well as the impact of AI. The summit will feature thematic panels, case studies, workshops, and networking spaces with international leaders working in information, technology, and AI.
Israeli Airstrike Kills Al Jazeera Journalists
Several Al Jazeera journalists were among the casualties of an Israeli airstrike on a tent near Shifa Hospital in eastern Gaza City on August 10. Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, along with photojournalists Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, and Mohammed Noufa were killed, along with a local freelance reporter Mohammad Al-Khaldi. Israel's military said it targeted Anas Al Sharif — alleging he had headed a Hamas cell and was involved in rocket attacks against Israel. Al Jazeera disputed this claim, and the UN and journalists’ groups denounced the killings. Al Sharif was part of a Reuters team that won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.
10 Questions
You Can Try Your Best and Fail, But Still You Learn: Insights from Africa’s Investigative Journalist of the Year
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.
10 Questions
Notes from a Small Island: Bernadette Carreon on Covering Palau, the Pacific, and the World
GIJN speaks to the veteran reporter who covered the Pacific region from the small island nation of Palau for more than 20 years.
10 Questions
Forced into Exile After Investigating Corruption, Continuing to Report on Venezuela from Afar
Tips on persistence from a permanently exiled reporter whose multi-year investigation was turned into an Emmy-nominated documentary.
10 Questions
‘Giving Sources Power’: Reporting on Indigenous Communities and Creating Compelling Investigative Podcasts
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Connie Walker discusses her favorite podcast tools, the ‘radical transformation’ of how Indigenous issues are covered, and building trust with sources.
Data Journalism
Summer Reading List for Data Journalists: For Those Who Believe in the Power of Storytelling with Numbers
Featuring books spanning four continents, these recommended reads provide a global perspective on data journalism.
Data Journalism
Data-Driven Reporting for Investigating the Cultural Sector
At the 2025 Netzwerk Recherche conference, radio journalists shared how they used data and AI tools to investigate Germany’s cultural sector and the influence of the country’s far right.
Data Journalism
From Data to Storytelling: Concept and Design Tips from the Financial Times’ John Burn-Murdoch
The chief data reporter for the Financial Times discusses how he considers the use of text, color, and annotation to aid visual storytelling through charts and graphics.
Data Journalism
Looking Back on Five Years: How the Sigma Awards Have Rallied and Inspired Data Journalism Excellence
After five years and 2,875 project entries from more than 100 countries, the Sigma Awards have become a catalyst for innovation and forever changed the face of data journalism.
Case Studies Member Profiles
How Italy’s First Investigative Center Combines Italian and International Angles
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.
Member Profiles
Civio: Data Journalism Pioneer in Spain, Still Pushing For Greater Transparency
The organization has one guiding principle: “Let the data speak.” But sometimes getting hold of the information they need is an uphill battle.
Member Profiles
Fighting for Accountability and Press Freedom in West Africa
For almost 30 years, the Media Foundation for West Africa has supported watchdog journalism and press freedom in both democratic and authoritarian states across the region.
Member Profiles
Building Memory, Documenting the Truth: The Case of Nicaragua’s Confidencial
With hundreds of the country’s reporters in exile, the press is under pressure like never before. But this outlet is continuing to report despite all its staff now being based overseas.
MENA Focus
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.
Africa Focus
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.
LATAM Focus
Our first regional spotlight series celebrates the achievements of our members in Latin America and others reporting from the region. These articles tell the stories of reporters across the continent, digging into the investigations that matter, and detailing how outlets are creating innovative reporting projects amid their own specific local challenges.
2024 Elections
Global elections in 2024 will affect more citizens than in any previous year, and will likely reset humanity’s liberty compass for years ahead. This project features an elections reporting guide, stories on cutting-edge tools for investigating campaigns and candidates, and lessons learned from the best in local watchdog reporting from around the world.
Videos
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Gathering Evidence and Documents in Conflict and War Zones — A MENA Case Study
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.
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How to Acquire Free Satellite Imagery for Your Investigations
Satellite imagery has become a game-changer for investigative journalism, offering powerful tools to uncover hidden stories.
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Lessons Learned from Investigating the 2024 Elections
The 2024 elections marked a seismic year for democracies worldwide, presenting investigative journalists with unique challenges and opportunities.
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How Africa Connects to Your Story
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.