How Publishing Investigations as Books Can Add Depth, Increase Visibility, and Fight Censorship
In this story, several investigative journalists from Mexico speak about the experience of turning their exposés into books.
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Investigating How Illegal Gold Gets Into the Legitimate Supply Chain
This Pulitzer Center-supported investigation dug into illegal gold mining in South America, and traced how these illicit products are secretly fed into legitimate supply chains.
Data Journalism Reporting Tools & Tips
As Trump White House Disappears US Environmental Data, Reporters Can Turn to OECD
The wide range of international environmental data that the OECD offers, though often Eurocentric, is still extensive in scope and comparatively reliable.
News & Analysis Sustainability
Journalists as Founders — Intrepid Pioneers or Reluctant Managers?
There are myriad number of reasons why reporters decide launch their own news sites, but these enterprising journalists often face a series of new, daunting challenges.
How They Did It Reporting Tools & Tips
Running Into Open Secrets: How to Investigate Using the Strava Fitness App
Journalists around the world have mined the Strava fitness app to pinpoint secret military bases and track the movements of world leaders.
Data Journalism
Data Don’ts: Expert Tips to Avoid Misleading Audiences With Numbers
At a NICAR 2025 panel, data journalism experts discussed nuanced number errors that watchdog reporters often make that can confuse readers and disrupt story angles.
Data Journalism Top 10
Rolling Trade Wars, Earthquake in Myanmar, Oil in the Amazon, and Politics of Time Zones
Also highlighting data investigations into oil exploration in the Amazon, women who travel for an abortion in Europe, and and how music is passed down through generations.
How They Did It
Investigating the Systemic Failures Enabling Abuse on Dating Apps
The Dating App Reporting Project conducted an 18-month investigation into the mechanisms meant to keep people safe on dating apps — and found them wanting.
How They Did It
From the Hospital to the Lab: How We Reported the Snakebite Scandal
Two reporters from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s global health team explain how they uncovered the shady world of phony snakebite antivenom.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Behind the FOI Desk: Using Freedom of Information Laws to Fuel Accountability Stories in Africa
Newsrooms across Africa have established formal, right-to-information help desks that leverage government document requests for public accountability and watchdog reporting.
New Free Tools to Track Corporate Misconduct Around the World
The new Violation Tracker Global (VT Global) portal offers unique and valuable datasets on corporate misconduct across 57 countries and territories outside of the US and UK.
Data Journalism MENA Focus Week
How Middle Eastern Data Outlets Use Data to Challenge Narratives and Advance Accountability
Data journalism in the Middle East has been driven by organizations that have produced collaborations and projects that combine innovative techniques with nuanced local knowledge.
Getting the Story Out MENA Focus Week
Investigating Syria after Assad: A Black Box, Opened
Feras Dalatey describes the surreal experience of reporting in his home country days after the fall of the Assad regime — and the challenges ahead for Syria’s investigative journalists.
10 Questions MENA Focus Week
‘Never Stop Learning’: Reporting on Yemen Beyond the Headlines
The investigative journalist — who has covered Iraq’s secret sex trade, the Yemen war, and the Sanaa funeral bombing — shares insights from working on a difficult beat.
MENA Focus Week News & Analysis
Unearthing Truths in Turbulent Times: The High Cost of Investigative Journalism in North Africa
Press freedom in the Maghreb is under attack and in decline, but investigative outlets have still found ways to uncover corruption and reduce the risks of publishing.
MENA Focus Week News & Analysis
Investigative Journalism in MENA: Struggling Against Tyranny, Fighting to Survive
Investigative journalists across the region talk about their biggest challenges — from repressive laws and surveillance to funding cuts.
News & Analysis
What’s Lost if Voice of America Disappears: Watchdog Spirit, Intrepid Reporters, and Focus on the Global South
To dismantle VOA and other US-funded affiliates would be to silence decades of coverage in overlooked parts of the world on topics like human rights, corruption, and war crimes.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Editors and Reporters Denounce Bill That Would Upend Investigative Journalism in Peru
A bill currently being proposed in the South American country’s legislature would have a chilling effect, and make in-depth exposés of the powerful virtually impossible.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Celebrating a Decade of Reveal — The Show That Helped Investigative Radio Go Mainstream
Ten years on, those behind Reveal, the award-winning public radio show and podcast, talk about the investigations that have defined their program.
Climate Data Journalism
How The Pudding Used Data Visualizations to Recontextualize the Story of Climate Change
What does climate change feel like? How will your city’s climate shift, 50 years from now? Data scientist Derek Taylor explains his latest piece.
News & Analysis Sustainability
As Social Platforms Withdraw Support, Professional Fact Checkers Fight Disinformation and ‘Systemic Assault’ on Facts
During a panel at ISOJ, fact-checkers discussed platform-enabled mis/disinformation in an era struggling with news avoidance, distrust, and limited access to information.
Data Journalism Methodology
How AI Is Helping Independent Journalists Track Wartime Casualties of Russia
Exiled Russian media site IStories has shared with GIJN how it built an AI-powered database of Russian military war dead and missing, and why it was worth creating.
Data Journalism Top 10
COVID-19’s Impact Five Years On, Chinese Harassment of Taiwan, Peruvian Political Fortunes, and 75 Years of Formula 1
Also this week, a visual narrative on the 30th anniversary of the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack, a special feature on Ramadan, and the grim statistics of death prediction.
How They Did It
How Two Graduate Reporters Exposed a System Used to Hide Police Officer Misconduct
Two reporters, nominated for the 2025 Goldsmith Prize, spent years investigating legal agreements in California that hide police officers’ past misconduct from the public.
Climate Reporting Tools & Tips
New Angle for Reporting on Oil and Gas Industry — Radioactive Waste
The lack of regulatory oversight of radioactive waste in the oil and gas industry has created an environment ripe for some extraordinary science and environmental journalism.
News & Analysis
Creating a New Nonprofit Outlet to Investigate Wildlife Crime
With legacy media stepping back from the space, three veteran reporters decided to create a new outlet dedicated to wildlife investigations.
10 Questions
Investigating Clandestine Gold Mines, Deforestation, and Corporate Misconduct: The Reporter Who Made the Amazon His Beat
Brazilian freelance reporter Hyury Potter recently won the Pulitzer Center’s Breakthrough Journalism Award.
Data Journalism Reporting Tools & Tips
Telltale Data Signs of Bogus Scientific Papers and Fraudulent Academic Research
Two scientists and an editor spent six months investigating so-called paper mills, which churn out bogus scientific papers that impede actual research on lifesaving breakthroughs.