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Asia’s SOPA Awards Honor Stories on Fishing Crimes, Uzbek Taxpayer Abuses, and COVID Data Obstruction
Winners of the prestigious 2022 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards were recently announced in Hong Kong, in a gala event that recognized innovative data and investigative journalism as well as the courage of reporters working in Asia’s rising climate of censorship and media repression.
Methodology Reporting Tools & Tips
Global Lessons from Exposing War Abuses in Yemen
Open source tools like the Yemeni Archive have allowed investigative journalists to track the impact of Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in the Yemen civil war as well as identify Western allies’ role in possible war crimes or abuses.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Data Journalism Top 10: Black Sea Blockade, Yemen Airstrikes, Hong Kong Shoebox Housing, Space Garbage
This week, GIJN’s roundup of the best in data journalism features an analysis of the impact of Russia’s Black Sea blockade on the global food chain, a deep dive into the US military’s role in aiding Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen, and a look at how different forms of inequality affect the lives of residents in Brussels, Belgium.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Pulitzer Center Climate Conference Attendees Call for Action
Attendees at the Pulitzer Center’s climate change reporting summit held up posters and spoke out to raise awareness about the disappearance of journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, who went missing in the Amazon rainforest. A suspect has since confessed to killing the men, and two bodies thought to be them have been found, according to media reports.
GIJN Webinar in Hindi: Using RTI in Investigative Journalism
In this GIJN Webinar, exclusively in Hindi, we bring together journalists and experts who will share their experiences and suggest various ways to innovatively use the RTI Act for investigative journalism. Apart from suggesting ways to sniff out wrongdoings in government spendings, they will also offer tips on how to extract information by framing RTI queries in a creative manner.
From South Africa to Turkmenistan: Eight New Journalism Groups Join GIJN
GIJN’s latest membership class sees its first member in Lithuania and a Netherlands-based exiled group focused on Turkmenistan. The groups include investigative media outlets, a journalists’ collective, and a social enterprise that is building representative newsrooms. GIJN also welcomed members from Denmark, Georgia, India, South Africa, and the United States.
Press Freedom
Lessons Learned from Witnessing Viktor Orban’s Crackdown on the Free Press
Andras Petho, co-founder of the investigative news outlet Direkt36, offers lessons learned from witnessing first-hand the press crackdown of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
News & Analysis
How Collaboration Enables Transcendent, World-Changing Journalism
The Pulitzer Center’s Marina Walker Guevara sees collaboration as one of the most significant paradigm changes in journalism of the past 50 years. In a keynote speech at the Collaborative Journalism Summit, she said that by working together, reporters can investigate stories that “transcend us, transcend our competitive instincts, our newsrooms’ politics, and our own egos.”
GIJN Masterclass: How to Investigate a Billion-Dollar Corporate Fraud
In this GIJN Masterclass, Dan McCrum is in conversation with American journalist Katharine Eban a week after the release of his book, “Money Men,” to explain how he uncovered Wirecard’s shady practices and faced up to the firm’s tactics to scare the Financial Times off the story. He will share his tips and tools for investigating corporations.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Data Journalism Top 10: Global Food Crisis, Radiotherapy Access, Costs of Breastfeeding, TikTok Impact
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism looks at the impact of the Ukraine war on the food prices around the world, inequality in radiotherapy access in Spain, the cost of breastfeeding for women, how going viral on TikTok can bring career success, and the places Germans can go for €9.
Methodology Reporting Tools & Tips
Using Satellites to Reveal the Burning of the UK’s Protected Moorlands
How Greenpeace’s investigative site, Unearthed, used satellite imagery and database mapping to reveal hundreds of fires on environmentally protected land in the English moors – including dozens that could be illegal.
Case Studies Methodology
Tracking Down Horses Owned by Families of the Oligarchs
Reporters at the OCCRP are used to cataloging shell companies and trawling through bank records in search of assets. But when they received a tip-off about show jumping horses linked to the oligarchs, they decided to dig into the subject as part of the Russian Asset Tracker project.
News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
10 Tips for Using Geolocation and Open Source Data to Fuel Investigations
Speaking at IJF22, Centre for Information Resilience investigations director Ben Strick offered 10 tips for integrating geolocation and open source data in investigative journalism.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Data Journalism Top 10: Gun Violence, Xinjiang Police Files, Therapy Wait Times, Russian War Looting
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism column looks at schools shootings in the US, the faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps, heat records in the US, migrants at the Polish-Belarus border, the parcels sent by the Russian troops back home or the suicide toll in European jails.
How They Did It Methodology
How They Did It: Uncovering a Vast Network of Illegal Mining in Venezuela
A behind-the-scenes look at a reporting collaboration that uncovers the vast scale of illegal mining and illicit smuggling in Venezuela’s Amazon region.
Press Freedom
How Exiled Russian Journalists Are Rebuilding Their Lives in Latvia
Russian journalists who have fled their home country over censorship and security issues are now rebuilding their lives and careers amid a diaspora community in Riga, Latvia.
Methodology News & Analysis
How the NYT’s Pulitzer-Winning Series Exposed Civilian Deaths in the Air War on ISIS
To get a behind-the-scenes look at The New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the civilian death toll of US airstrikes, GIJN interviewed two key members of the reporting team: Christoph Koettl, a member of the Times’ visual Investigations team, and the series’ lead reporter, Azmat Khan.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Data Journalism Top 10: Haiti’s Lost Billions, COVID’s Death Toll, Asia’s Inequality, Broken Adoptions
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism column looks at a historical investigation into Haiti’s lost billions, visualizing COVID’s US death toll, and Asia’s growing wealth inequality.
Case Studies News & Analysis
Investigating the ‘Toxic Legacy’ of Abandoned Oil Wells
In a recent Q+A, environmental reporter Mark Olalde discussed a collaborative investigation on the impact of abandoned oil wells and other extractive industry infrastructure on nearby communities. The investigation won second place in the investigative reporting category at the awards of the Society of Environmental Journalists.
How They Did It News & Analysis
How They Did It: Covering One of the World’s Most Dangerous Border Crossings
Every year thousands of migrants cross one of the most dangerous borders in the world: the Darién Gap, a magnificent but deadly rainforest that connects Colombia and Panama. GIJN spoke to a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, and one of her teammates, who trekked through the jungle to investigate what happens en route.
News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
Q&A with Rosental Alves: New Models, Digital Media, and the Backlash in Latin America
GIJN spoke with International Symposium on Online Journalism founder, Rosental Alves, about the growing backlash against independent media in Latin America.
Data Journalism
Data Journalism Top 10: Russia’s Global Propaganda, Inflation Calculators, Zelensky’s Speeches, Animating Dataviz
In this week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism, we look at pro-Russian propaganda’s popularity in Africa and South Asia, the rising costs of goods in the US and India, inequitable disaster funding, and the power of animating data visualization.
How They Did It News & Analysis
How They Did It: Inside the For-Profit Takeover of Europe’s Elder Care Homes
Reporters for Investigate Europe (IE) spent months examining the consequences of a seismic shift in Europe’s elder care homes, where for-profit companies have increasingly taken over the industry. Their investigation explored how this shift has affected residents and staff, and dug into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on some of society’s most vulnerable people.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Digital Attacks Become Key Weapon to Silence Independent Media
Independent media now have to deal with an increasing number of digital attacks on press freedom, from brute-force attacks on their servers to more sophisticated assaults on their social media presence and digitally-based legal challenges.
Data Journalism
Data Journalism Top 10: Outlawing Abortion, Russian Disinformation, Dog Breeds, India Heat Wave
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism features an analysis of Russian military casualties, the heat wave scorching India, myths about the link between dog breeds and behavior, and the potential impact of overturning a key judicial ruling on abortion in the US.
News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
Investigative Tips for Following the Cryptocurrency Trail
There is one key reason why reporters should start learning about cryptocurrencies, according to the OCCRP’s Jan Strozyk, and that is because their investigative targets are already using them to hide their crimes and finance their future operations.