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Как расследовать схемы и находить дополнительную информацию о компаниях в базе Offshore Leaks
В базе данных Offshore Leaks представлены такие связи между компаниями и людьми, которые сложно отследить. Инструкция Сесили С. Гальего поможет разобраться в этих связях, а также во всей информации, которую вы можете получить благодаря данным, опубликованным нашими коллегами из ICIJ.
GIJN Welcomes 10 New Members from 10 Countries
The Global Investigative Journalism Network is delighted to welcome 10 new member organizations. Along with training centers in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Trinidad, our new members include a Cuban environmental reporting site, a Brazilian newsroom focused on human rights, a Mexican media lab, a Russian citizen investigative center, a Swiss startup magazine, a European reporting network and a Philippine investigative reporting center.
News & Analysis
Arson Attack on Ukraine’s Rivne Investigative Center
An arsonist attempted to burn down the Rivne Investigative Reporting Agency in western Ukraine on Thursday evening, according to staff members and associates. An unknown attacker entered the newsroom’s first floor office, doused it with a flammable liquid and set it ablaze. Fortunately, no injuries have been reported.
How Journalists, NGOs Can — & Should — Collaborate
In an edited extract from the book “Global Teamwork: The Rise of Collaboration in Investigative Journalism,” GIJN’s Program Director Anne Koch talks about the successes — and shortcomings — of the collaboration between Transparency International and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
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Лучшие расследования 2017 года в странах бывшего СССР
Русскоязычный редактор GIJN Ольга Симанович сделала обзор некоторых наиболее выдающихся региональных расследований 2017 года.
Новости и аналитика
Editor’s Pick: Best Investigative Stories from the Former Soviet Union 2017
From laundromats to propaganda factories, GIJN’s Russian-language editor, Olga Simanovych, rounds up some of the most outstanding investigations out of the Former Soviet Union countries in 2017.
News & Analysis
The Global Backlash Against NGOs (and How To Fight Back)
Authoritarian governments have cleverly used the liberal norm of transparency in order to shut down liberal groups in their countries, according to a new report “Distract, Divide, Detach: Using Transparency and Accountability to Justify Regulation of Civil Society Organizations.”
Reporting Tools & Tips
Investigating Trump: A How-To Lesson by Fusion GPS
When Glenn Simpson was an investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal, he was among the best in the biz in following dirty money. Now the US Congress has released Simpson’s testimony on his private investigative firm’s role in digging into Donald Trump, and it’s a case study in sources and methods, showing how the firm tracked Trump’s investments and Russian ties using interviews, public records and smart detective work.
Data Journalism
This Week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from January 8 to 14 finds free font-for-numbers by @InVisionApp, a William Playfair biography book review for @WSJBookReviews and @PublicDataLab’s just-released full version of its fake news field guide.
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Guns, Politics and Media: A Look at Czech Investigative Journalism
After the 2008 economic crisis, western media companies sold their interests in the Czech Republic’s biggest media houses, radio stations and newspapers to Czech and Slovak billionaires. But the concentration of media in the hands of a few powerful owners has had an unexpected, positive impact. It has led to the emergence of smaller, independent investigative journalism sites, as well as new initiatives to fund them.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Secrets to Searching for Video Footage
Verifying videos is important, but first you have to find them. This Bellingcat guide will provide advice and some tips on how to gather as much video as possible on a particular event, whether it is videos from witnesses of a natural disaster or a terrorist attack.
News & Analysis
2017’s Award Winning Global Journalism
Drawn from a selection of 15 global and regional journalism awards, this list of best reads from 2017 is an inspiring selection of storytelling, investigative techniques, collaborative enterprises and fearless reporting against all odds.
News & Analysis
Investigative Journalism Awards to Apply For Now!
Worked hard to produce investigative projects this past year? Consider submitting your story for these prominent journalism awards, which are listed below and ordered by the nearest deadline. But hurry, some deadlines are coming soon!
Help GIJN Train the World’s Investigative Journalists
Won’t you join Professor Stiglitz in supporting our work? Our job is providing truth-telling journalists with the training, strategies, and networks that hold the powerful accountable and give voice to those who otherwise have none. Your support today can help GIJN meet the tremendous demand for these capacity-building efforts in the months to come.
Reporting Tools & Tips
The New Journalist: 13 Media Sites to Keep You in the Know
There is a growing number of media and journalism schools and research centers investigating new trends, helping to understand digital disruption and its impact. With their newsletters, websites and interactive online training, they can inform you about inspiring innovations, share academic research, spot threats, provoke critical thinking, highlight valuable journalistic endeavors and report on moves in the industry that will affect how stories reach people. Here are 13 you don’t want to miss.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Journalism Bots: A Quick History and Ideas for Use in Your Newsroom
Bots in newsrooms are becoming increasingly commonplace as a growing number of publishers experiment with various automated services to expand their coverage, help journalists do their jobs better or improve relationships with readers. Here’s a quick history of the bot in newsrooms, and ideas for employing them in yours.
Climate
Как медиапроекты решают экологические проблемы – опыт журналистов-расследователей из Индии
Опыт создания проекта, который значительно увеличил интерес аудитории к проблемам экологии и заставил правительство начать борьбу с загрязнением воздуха в Индии.
#GIJC17: Spotlight on Africa
Almost 500 African journalists met with their global counterparts in Johannesburg at #GIJC17, the largest international gathering of investigative journalists, to sharpen their skills for a new era of digging out the muck.
News & Analysis
Fake News Took Over the Arab World Long Ago. But Investigative Journalism Might Save It
This week, some 400 Arab journalists will be meeting at Jordan’s Dead Sea for the 10th Annual Arab Investigative Journalism Forum. Rana Sabbagh writes about the Arab world’s fake news epidemic — and how some Arab journalists are fighting back.
Case Studies
How a News Outlet Raised $600K with a DPO
A for-profit “local newspaper without the paper” in California raised nearly $600,000 via a “direct public offering,” or DPO. Here’s how it works, and how it might work for your media organization.
Einmal Event mit Hashtag, bitte
Du hast die wichtigste Konferenz für investigative Journalisten verpasst? Kein Problem: Die JONA war vier Tage im Newsroom der #GIJC17 in Südafrika unterwegs und fasst zusammen
And Here’s the Wrap: #GIJC17 Highlights
The 10th Global Investigative Journalism Conference was an intense five days of sharing, learning, networking and creating new journalism partnerships. The event was a huge “gathering of troublemakers and the world’s worst nightmares under a single roof.” Here are some highlights from the conference.
Investigative Stories from Iraq, Nigeria Win Global Shining Light Award
Winners of the seventh Global Shining Light Awards were announced at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference tonight in Johannesburg, South Africa. Top prizes went to gutsy investigations of missing funds in Iraq and extra-judicial killings in Nigeria, with citations of excellence to exposes of arms trafficking in Eastern Europe and complicity behind anti-Muslim riots in India.
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The Essential #GIJC17 Cheat Sheet
And we’re off! This evening in Johannesburg at the University of the Witwatersrand, we’ll be kicking off four days of unadulterated investigative journalism. For those of you who couldn’t make it to Joburg, here’s how to follow us from home, as well as highlights of #GIJC17.