GIJC23
Under Threat, but United: GIJC23 Highlights
As GIJC23 wraps up in Gothenburg, Sweden, it’s clear that investigative journalism has grown stronger and more intelligent, and reporters have become more collaborative and united than ever before.
GIJC23 Research
How Should Investigative Journalists Collaborate with Scientists?
Collaboration between investigative journalists and scientists can bring great rewards, but for successful collaborations, journalists must also consider how they can help scientists.
Inside GIJN
20 Years On, A Global Network for the World’s Investigative Journalists
As we prepare to gather for this year’s Global Investigative Journalism Conference, it seems a good time to share where GIJN and its conferences come from.
News & Analysis
David Kaplan on the Future of Investigative Journalism: ‘We’re Just Getting Started’
As co-founder and inaugural executive director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, David Kaplan has led the organization from an initiative with a few hundred followers in 2012 to a “network of networks” spanning some 244 groups in 90 countries. WAN-IFRA sought his insights on the future of investigative journalism in a divided world.
News & Analysis
8 Reasons To Attend This Year’s Global IJ Conference
GIJC23 will be the biggest-ever conference, with 150 technique-focused panels, practical workshops, and networking sessions, and 2,000 watchdog journalists expected. Here are seven other reasons you should attend.
Case Studies Member Profiles
How a Wiretapping Scandal Reinforced the Need for Independent Media in Greece
The Greek wiretapping story has become an international scandal. But for months, the only outlets covering the story were small independent ones like Reporters United, whose dogged reporting has shaken up the country’s media landscape.
Editor’s Pick: 2022’s Best Investigative Stories from Sub-Saharan Africa
GIJN’s Africa editor, Benon Herbert Oluka, presents his Editor’s Picks for the best investigative reporting from sub-Saharan Africa in 2022, which demonstrated the curiosity, ingenuity, bravery, and technological know-how of Africa’s top investigative journalists and teams.
Resource Tipsheet
Grants and Fellowships for Journalists
A comprehensive list of national, regional, and global reporting grants and fellowships.
Data Journalism
Data Journalism Pioneers at Work Across Southeast Asia
Despite the threats posed by misinformation and limited funding, grassroots efforts to build skills and literacy in data journalism and data visualization are bearing fruit in countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines — a trend sparked partly by a hunger for information around COVID-19.
News & Analysis
Award-Winning African Journalists Discuss Their Investigative Reporting Challenges
Investigative journalists work tirelessly to get the truth and ensure that the public is informed on topics that are of public interest. Jamlab interviewed nine African investigative journalists to talk about their experiences of reporting in their respective countries.
Resource Guide
Kawance da Hadin gwiwa
Hadin gwiwa a shirye-shiryen bincike mai zurfi na cigaba da samun karbuwa. Aiki tare da abokan tarayya na iya habakawa da kuma kara yawan abubuwan da ake bukata wajen aiki da ma yawan wadanda za su karanta labaran da aka wallafa. Ana iya samun kwarewa na musamman, kamar yin nazarin bayanai, kirkiro zane-zanen hotuna ko […]
How They Did It Labarai & Nazari
How They Did It: Inside the For-Profit Takeover of Europe’s Elder Care Homes
Reporters for Investigate Europe (IE) spent months examining the consequences of a seismic shift in Europe’s elder care homes, where for-profit companies have increasingly taken over the industry. Their investigation explored how this shift has affected residents and staff, and dug into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on some of society’s most vulnerable people.
Resource
Video Resources for Investigating in Asia/Pacific
To share best practices and other lessons learned from our most recent global conference, we are releasing a series of videos from the event’s many seminars, panels, and workshops. This latest installment focuses on reporting tips and collaborations in the Asia-Pacific region and insights for reporting in China.
News & Analysis Case Studies Press Freedom
Лучшие журналистские расследования из стран Восточной Европы, Центральной Азии и Кавказа в 2021 году: Выбор редактора
Региональный редактор GIJN Ольга Симанович подготовила обзор самых увлекательных и смелых расследовательских материалов, опубликованных на русском или украинском в 2021 году. Примечательно, что усилившееся давление на прессу сплотило журналистов, и среди расследований года немало трансграничных историй.
Примеры из практики Новости и аналитика Свобода прессы
Editor’s Pick: 2021’s Best Investigative Journalism from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus
Despite worsening legal and physical attacks on the press, solidarity among journalists in Russia and the Eastern European region is growing. Our list of the eight best investigations of the year reveals that more and more cross-border, joint investigations are being carried out, and illustrate continuing reporting courage in the region that should inspire the entire journalism community.
News & Analysis
From Paraguay to Palestine: 16 New Journalism Groups Join GIJN
GIJN’s latest membership class includes its first two members from Francophone Africa and three new members in the Middle East/North Africa. They range from investigative newsrooms and media development groups to university-based centers and cross-border networks. GIJN also welcomed members from six previously unrepresented countries: Cameroon, Malta, Paraguay, Palestine, Senegal, and the Slovak Republic.
A Global Network for the World’s Investigative Journalists
As we prepare to gather for the 12th Global Investigative Journalism Conference in early November — our first, online-only event — it seems a good time to share again with our colleagues where the Global Investigative Journalism Network and its conferences come from. It was a simple idea at the end of the 20th century — to gather the world’s investigative journalists to share their knowledge with each other — that gave birth to GIJN, which has now grown to 211 member organizations in 82 countries.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Investigative Tactics That Reporters Love
In interviews over the past year, dozens of leading journalists have told me about the scores of tools and techniques that proved helpful in their investigations. But, again and again, these top muckrakers point to about a dozen tactics that they rely on all the time. We share those favorite techniques in this roundup.
Fellowships to Attend the 12th Global Investigative Journalism Conference (Online)
The 2021 Global Investigative Journalism Conference is this November 1-5, and for the first time, we’re doing it all online. The conference is the seminal international event in investigative journalism, featuring practical panels and workshops on the latest investigative techniques, data analysis, online research, cross-border collaboration, and more by the best journalists in the field. Since 2001, we’ve trained over 8,000 reporters, sparked headline-making collaborations, and spread investigative reporting worldwide.
News & Analysis
How Nonprofit Newsrooms Pioneered In-Depth Healthcare Coverage Before the Pandemic
When the COVID-19 pandemic took hold last year, editors scrambled to rapidly assemble teams to cover the crisis. Steps ahead were the outlets already dedicated to investigating health as a subject who knew how to source and build networks of public health and vaccine experts, and crucially, how to investigate both the science and the politics behind the pandemic response.
Guide Distribution & Promotion
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دليل مصادر
Periodismo freelance: Alianzas y colaboraciones
English Las colaboraciones en proyectos de investigación cada vez son más populares. Trabajar con aliados puede multiplicar y maximizar los recursos periodísticos y aumentar el número de lectores. Se pueden adquirir destrezas especiales, como análisis de datos, crear visualizaciones, o preparar elementos multimedia. Existe una cantidad de literatura que va en aumento sobre cómo hacer […]
How They Did It Noticias y análisis
How They Did It: Collaborating Across a Continent on Latin America’s Untold Migrant Stories
In the project Migrantes de otro mundo — Migrants from Another World — a team of more than 40 journalists in more than a dozen countries decided to collaborate to tell the untold story of the migrants from Asia and Africa who travel through Latin America each year. As the creators of the project put it: “By its wandering nature, migration is a story that can only be properly told through collaboration.”
News & Analysis
How Latin American Media Outlets are Collaborating on COVID-19 Investigations
Media organizations across Latin America are working together to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic is playing out in the region. Reporters say that cross-border collaboration is helping them report the story of a lifetime so that jointly they can work to “connect the dots.”
Case Studies
10 Lessons from Our Global Collaboration on Pangolin Trafficking
The Pangolin Reports brought together more than 40 journalists in 14 countries to investigate the illegal trade in pangolins, a harmless ant-eating mammal which is close to extinction. This is what they learned about collaborative journalism.
News & Analysis
What Investigative Journalism Will Look Like in 2020
GIJN asked investigative journalists around the world to look ahead at what’s in store for 2020. Here are the trends, key forces, and challenges they expect will affect investigative and data journalism in the coming year, as well as the new skills and approaches we should be thinking about.
News & Analysis
Journalismfund.eu’s Ides Debruyne: ‘Investigative Journalism is Booming’ in Europe
Journalismfund.eu is an independent nonprofit that promotes cross-border and in-depth journalism in Europe. In this interview, Journalismfund.eu’s Managing Director Ides Debruyne shares his thoughts on “impactful” journalism and why investigative journalism is booming.
A Global Network for the World’s Investigative Journalists
As we gather for the 11th Global Investigative Journalism Conference, this seems a good time to share again with our colleagues where the Global Investigative Journalism Network and its conferences come from. It was a simple idea at the end of the 20th century — to gather the world’s investigative journalists to share their knowledge with each other — that gave birth to GIJN, which has now grown to 182 member organizations in 77 countries.