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Asia Focus
Our latest regional spotlight series examines the world’s largest and most populous continent, which is also the host of GIJN’s 14th 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 here are standing firm in the face of intimidation and turning to collaborative partnerships and innovate data strategies to hold the powerful to account.
Asia Focus
Investigative Journalism in Asia: Resistance, Transformation, and Solidarity Amidst Mounting Press Challenges
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.
Asia Focus
State-Connected Oligarchs and Looted Public Funds: Tracking Illicit Money Across Asia
In this installment of GIJN’s Asia Focus project, we look at how investigative journalists across the continent are exposing kleptocracy and documenting official corruption.
10 Questions Asia Focus
‘Impact is Often Subliminal’: A Nepali Journalism Veteran on the Highs — and Lows — of His Reporting Career
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.
Asia Focus
How Newsrooms are Uncovering Asia’s Climate and Environmental Crises, from Illegal Sand Mining to Sinking Cities
Outlets across the region are collaborating to investigate the environmental harms that cross borders.
Asia Focus
Data Journalism in Asia: Rethinking the Relationships Between Newsrooms, Communities, and Evidence
Data storytelling newsrooms have found innovative approaches to navigate closed data regimes, political pressures, and resource gaps.
Guide Resource
Open Source Guide to Investigating Chinese Companies
This guide introduces journalists to valuable information sources for China-focused investigations and demonstrates practical methods for accessing and utilizing key reporting tools.