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After Gothenburg: Call for Proposals for GIJC25 and GIJC27
GIJN is now accepting simultaneous proposals to host its next two Global Investigative Journalism Conferences in 2025 and in 2027.
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News & Analysis
2023 Double Exposure Festival Highlights the Global Fight Against Authoritarian Oppression
The DX film festival showcased investigations documenting challenges to democratic ideals and human rights around the world.
Document of the Day
GIJN Joins Paris Charter on AI and Journalism
GIJN joined with 16 other media partners to draft a charter and 10 principles for using AI in newsrooms and investigative reporting.
Awards, Grants, & Fellowships GIJC23
Global Ripple Effect: How GIJC23 Impacted GIJN Fellows Around the World
At GIJC23, GIJN sponsored more than 100 fellows from dozens of developing and transitioning countries.
Case Studies How They Did It
How One Nigerian Journalist on a Motorcycle Exposed Armed Warlords
Yusuf Anka spent three years riding into and out of dangerous territory in northwestern Nigeria, investigating armed gangs plaguing his home region.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Who’s Behind That Internet Ad?: Tips for Investigating Online Advertising
Global internet advertising revenue is forecast to reach $723.6 billion in 2026. Who makes this money and how they go about it is fertile ground for investigative journalists.
Data Journalism Top 10
Gaza Victims, Tracking Maui’s Inferno, Haiti’s Gangs, and the UK Housing Crisis
Our roundup features stories about airstrikes in Gaza, Haiti’s gang problem, carbon “bombs,” and blocking ChatGPT crawlers.
Teaching & Training
25 Journalists Selected for GIJN’s Second Digital Threats Training Course
This week, the second cohort of GIJN’s six-week, online Digital Threats course begins, training 25 journalists from 22 countries around the world.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Waste, Fraud, Abuse: Covering the Environmental Crime Beat
Journalists share stories and tips from their investigations into environmental crimes, from deforestation in the Congo to the Beirut port blast.
GIJC23 Sustainability
Tips for Building Sustainable Business Strategies
Media outlets are now more than ever looking for innovative digital strategies to reach and engage audiences as well as remain sustainable.
GIJC23
8 Tips for Upping Your Game as Investigative Editor
Great investigative editors make stories stronger, protect and motivate reporters, and make investigations more efficient.
How They Did It Reporting Tools & Tips
Behind-the-Scenes of the Washington Post’s Investigation Into a 40-Year-Old Grenadian Mystery
Jeff Leen, the head of investigations at the Post for the past 20 years, speaks about their latest podcast and how the outlet tackles in-depth stories.
Tipsheet Data Journalism GIJC23
No Coding Required: A Step-by-Step Guide to Scraping Websites With Data Miner
Knowing where to look for data — and accessing it via scraping data from websites — can be a powerful force multiplier for investigative journalists.
10 Questions GIJC23
Reporting and Sharing Women’s Stories in the Face of Taliban Oppression
Working as a journalist in Afghanistan has never been harder, but it’s a chance to resist the Taliban’s oppression of women’s rights, says the founder of Zan Times.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
From Real Estate to Racehorses: Tracking Hidden Assets Around the World
When reporters know how to follow the money, hidden wealth can often be uncovered in real estate, planes, yachts, artwork, and even racehorses.
Press Freedom
Doc of the Day: 2023 Global Impunity Index Calls Out ‘Hard Path to Justice’ for Crimes Against Journalists
According to CPJ, 261 journalists have been murdered in the past 10 years, part of a broader “hard path to justice” where killings of reporters go unpunished.
How They Did It
How They Did It: Investigating Organized Crime Networks in the Amazon Rainforest
Amazon Underworld is a large-scale project that aims to reveal how organized crime now controls a critical region nearly devoid of governance.
Case Studies Reporting Tools & Tips
Collaborating to Uncover ‘Putin’s Shadow War’ in Scandinavia
A unique collaboration between four Nordic public broadcasters sought to uncover the scale of Russian covert spying operations in the region.
Data Journalism Top 10
Visualizing War in Israel and Gaza; Australia’s Indigenous Voice Vote, Aging Taiwan, Romance Novel Covers
Featuring the first-round results of Argentina’s presidential election and a closer read of Australia’s “No” vote on Indigenous recognition.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Investigating Environmental Crimes: Tips From Reporters Covering the Amazon
Two reporters whose investigative work has exposed systemic land grabbing and illegal mining in the Amazon share their tips.
How They Did It
Death Weapons: How a Reporting Team Infiltrated Online Neo-Nazi Networks
A team of investigative journalists from Germany and the US used undercover reporting, OSINT, and data analysis skills to connect online extremism with offline terror.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
‘Rewriting History’: Tips for Investigating Events Years, Decades, Or Centuries Later
Historians have always used archival documents to study what happened years, decades, or even centuries ago. But sometimes journalists are the ones digging into the past and uncovering truths that are big enough to “rewrite history.”
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Follow the Money — and Enablers — When Investigating Kleptocracies and Mafia States
Veteran journalists explained how an industry of enablers is supporting a growing group of kleptocracies and mafia states around the world, and that following the money is a great way to track them.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Introducing FBarchive: A New, Searchable Repository of Facebook Whistleblower Documents
The new, searchable database FBarchive is designed to help researchers, journalists, and policymakers better understand and investigate decisions made at Meta about some of the most influential social media platforms across the globe.
Tipsheet
Tipsheet for Investigative Journalists on War Crimes and What Is Legal in War
An accurate understanding of the applicable laws by journalists can ensure and improve credible reporting, and raise awareness of potential violations.
GIJC23 Sustainability
Crowd-Driven Journalism: Four Groundbreaking Investigative Projects Powered by Public Engagement
Communities are often considered merely our audience in journalism. But local communities can be engaged to help report impactful stories, provide tips and resources, and even boost the finances of watchdog media around the world.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Power and Control: Investigating Food Supply and Agriculture Amid Climate Change
Water depletion in Tunisia, illegal shark fishing in Asia, global seed monopolies: three environmental journalists shared lessons at GIJC23 from their investigations into food production and supply chains.
10 Questions
From Tracking Blood Diamonds to Investigating a Wrongful Murder Conviction
After being wrongfully convicted of murder, Rowe taught himself watchdog reporting while in prison, and eventually worked his way onto the BBC’s prestigious Today and Panorama programs.