Reporting Tools & Tips
GIJN’s Top 10 Investigative Tools of 2023
Having flagged the top tips at NICAR23, IRE23, and GIJC23 in Sweden, GIJN offers the following 10 user-friendly tools that you might consider in your next investigations.
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Data Journalism Top 10
Extrajudicial Killings in Bangladesh, Israel-Palestine Protests, China’s Maritime Footprint
Featuring stories on extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh, protests about the Israel-Gaza conflict, China’s global maritime footprint, and a memoriam for Philip Meyer, a pioneer of data-driven journalism.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Tips for Better FOIA Requests: Taking Right-to-Information Access to the Next Level
Many reporters rely on FOIA requests and RTI legislation for their investigations. But how do you take these requests to the next level?
GIJC23 Legal Defense & Emergency Aid Press Freedom
How Journalists Can Protect Against Slapp Cases and Other Legal Threats
How journalists can identify whether they’ve been hit with a SLAPP suit — and resources for helping journalists fight back.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Unleashing the Power of Social Network Analysis for Investigative Journalism
Social Network Analysis (SNA) enables investigative journalists to connect the dots that can lead to groundbreaking revelations and expose deep-seated wrongdoing.
GIJN Resource Center’s Top Guides and Tipsheets from 2023
GIJN’s Resource Center presents a selection of our top reporting guides and tipsheets from 2023, from tracking climate change accountability to investigating war crimes.
Data Journalism GIJC23
Expert Tips for Journalists on Building Your Own Datasets
What do you do when you don’t get the dataset you need from authorities, or it doesn’t exist? Two experts provided tips at GIJC23.
Inside GIJN
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.
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.