In this GIJN webinar, a senior reporter, a human rights advocate, and a safety and trauma specialist will discuss how sexual violence in conflict can be understood, the most common misconceptions about this type of violence, and where journalists fit in. The speakers will offer tips and resources on how to investigate effectively, safely engage with survivors, and navigate the call for justice.
Forensic Architecture, a research agency based in London, blends human rights expertise with research, architectural capabilities, and investigative firepower. Our interview finds out how the team tackles investigations in the Middle East.
Films that captured ‘the death of democracy’ headlined the 2022 Double Exposure documentary festival in the US. In a parallel symposium, investigative reporters and directors stressed the importance of visual storytelling to describe the current, global erosion of democratic freedoms, and shared tips on how to capture this mass theft of human rights.
This week’s most popular data journalism stories on Twitter highlights efforts to evade Russia’s war mobilization, Xi Jinping’s path to power, abuses of child welfare policing, teacher demonstrations in Hungary, and caesarean birth rates in Spain.
From shared bylines to awards credit, and from fair pay to due recognition, read the best-practice tips for working with local journalists or fixers when collaborating on investigations, from Frontline Freelance Mexico.
US-based nonprofit Freedom House released its latest annual study of global internet freedom yesterday, titled Freedom on the Net 2022: Countering an Authoritarian Overhaul of the Internet.
Kenyan journalist John-Allan Namu discussed the emotional toll and significant impact on work-life balance that investigative reporting can have during a webinar hosted by the Reuters Institute.
Fourteen newsrooms and independent journalists from 13 countries collaborated on the Oceans, Inc. project, to uncover stories about illegal fishing and forced slavery on the South China Sea and the oceans near Antarctica. Their cross-border reporting won the 2022 SOPA Award for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment.
Our curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter features a look at Europe’s looming energy crisis, an investigation into a fatal crowd stampede in Indonesia, tracking false reports of active shooter incidents in the US, and an analysis of the most popular Ukrainian war-related memes.
Rainforest Investigations Network fellow Hyury Potter used data reporting and machine learning to investigate the link between clandestine airstrips and illegal mining in the Brazilian Amazon during the past two years.
Many people get ‘percent change’ and ‘percentage-point change’ confused. This tipsheet on reporting with math features insights from data journalism pioneer Jennifer LaFleur.
Investigative journalism of environmental issues has grown substantially in recent years in Africa, thanks to a number of new initiatives and reporting projects.
A press freedom crisis is rippling across Latin America and in some places the technological, legal, and physical threats have grown so severe that investigative journalists feel compelled to flee their home countries to keep reporting.
In this online Masterclass, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Martha Mendoza is in conversation with GIJN’s David Kaplan. Mendoza will offer hands-on training to accompany her popular GIJN tipsheet, Investigating US Influence Around the World, designed to help journalists outside the US understand how their countries are impacted by Washington — and how to report it more effectively.
China’s global fishing operation is prompting concerns about overfishing and destruction of marine life and ecosystems and The New York Times mapped its global reach. Our weekly NodeXL and human curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter also highlights the queer cinema history in the Southeast Asian region, charted Hurricane Ian’s destructive path through the US, Iran’s protests for womens’ rights, and the social housing issues in Canada.
This investigation into the suspicious death of a Ukrainian immigrant while in police custody won Gazeta Wyborcza reporter Jacek Harłukowicz Poland’s top prize for journalism in 2021.
In this interview, two reporters discuss how they used WhatsApp messages to explore and investigate the effects of Lebanon’s economic collapse on people across the country.
From a one-hour French documentary about the Russian Wagner group of mercenary fighters to a short film about the final, desperate phone calls of a Tunisian president facing an uprising, many of the winning entries from this year’s DIG festival focus on exposing stories about the powerful and what happens behind closed doors.
Mattia Peretti, manager of JournalismAI at the London School of Economics, discusses the 10 things reporters should know about how artificial intelligence can impact journalism.
Emilia Șercan has spent the last seven years writing dozens of investigations about alleged plagiarism and academic fraud in the doctorates of Romania’s elites. Her investigations have found evidence of copying from famous authors and other students’ in the work of the current Romanian prime minister as well as the ministers of defense, health, and education, a number of university rectors, police chiefs and army generals, prosecutors, and judges.
The 2023 Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC23) is now scheduled for September 19 – 22 in the historic city of Gothenburg, Sweden. GIJN is excited to join with two local co-hosts for the 13th iteration of its conference: The Fojo Media Institute at Linnaeus University, and Föreningen Grävande Journalister, Sweden’s national association of investigative journalists.
From stories examing potential conflicts of interest among lawmakers in Peru and the US, to a data story revealing the history of Queen Elizabeth II’s portrait on banknotes worldwide, our column features the best in data journalism. Also this week: the dangers of so-called celebratory gunfire, displacement in the Democratic Repubilc of Congo, and how the war in Ukraine has impacted children living in institutional care.
With democracy and press freedom under assault worldwide, Nepali Times publisher Kunda Dixit calls for greater investment in watchdog sites like the Centre for Investigative Journalism – Nepal.
New GIJN member Viewfinder, a small nonprofit journalism organization, is re-imagining investigative reporting in South Africa by exposing the disproportionate effects of systemic failures on marginalized communities.
In an interview, The Atlantic’s investigative reporter Caitlin Dickerson discusses tips and techniques for covering the immigration beat, from knowing the history to setting expectations.
A range of films released in 2022, which include documentaries and feature adaptations of landmark investigations, provide insight into the diligent and often dangerous work of investigative reporters.
Our weekly NodeXL and human curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter features The Financial Times’ 10 charts visualizing developments in the United Kingdom during Elizabeth’s reign, The Marshall Project’s look at how government Covid-19 relief funds were used, and Taiwan Data Stories’ scrollytelling project about Taiwan’s iconic street food.
