How They Did It
Opening the AI ‘Black Box’: How We Investigated Grab’s Fare System
How the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism looked into the opaque algorithm used by the ride-hailing company Grab.
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Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Fake Fertilizer, Dirty Money, and a Kidnapping Epidemic: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories from Sub-Saharan Africa
Also featuring revelations about misuse of college scholarships in Ghana, a televangelist’s troubling empire in Nigeria, and a dive into a US charity’s spending in Malawi.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Investigating Mining, Tracking Trolling, and Deconstructing a Building Collapse: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories from Turkey
Investigative journalism in Turkey faces many challenges and obstacles, but there are remarkable reporters digging into untold stories.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Digital Slavery, Nickel Downstreaming, and Timber Grabbing: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in Southeast Asia
This year’s picks emphasize the region’s increasingly sophisticated cross-border crimes, but also how investigative journalists consistently expose them.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
A Mysterious Poisoning, Contaminated Tanker Trucks, and a Death in Custody: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories About China
Also featuring reporting on an elaborate con on a Chinese dissident, an academic credentials scandal, and trekking with Chinese migrants to the US border.
Teaching & Training
Digital Threats: Fourth Cyber Investigations Training Course
Reporters from around the world will learn how to investigate the digital environment in order to understand and expose disinformation, online attacks, and manipulation.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Switzerland’s Hidden Slave Trade, Migrants ‘Dumped’ in the Desert, and a Religious Sex Scandal: 2024’s Best Investigations in French
Featuring stories from France to the Ivory Coast, Switzerland to Senegal, here are eight of the best investigations published in French this year.
Data Journalism Top 10 Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Editor’s Pick: Top 10 Data Journalism Projects of 2024
Highlights from a year of data journalism columns, from elections to the Olympics and the evolution of the love song.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Deadly Protests, Rising Seas, and Investigating Corruption: 2024’s Best Investigations from Bangladesh
Also featuring investigations into UN peacekeepers, population data fudging, and the inadequate academic qualifications of a powerful police chief.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Tracking the Exploitation of Illegal Gold, Human Trafficking, and Government Corruption: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in Spanish
A tour of the year’s best investigations from across Latin America and Spain, where journalists are uncovering stories that impact their communities.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Investigating Yemen’s War, Uncovering Famine in Sudan, and Telling the Story of Gaza: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories from the Middle East
Plus a deep dive into a powerful figure behind a vital border crossing, an investigation into mercenaries in Yemen, and exposing real estate ownership in Dubai.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
GIJN Resource Center’s Top Guides and Tipsheets from 2024
GIJN’s top reporting guides and tipsheets from 2024, including an introduction to investigative journalism and guides on project management, fundraising, and extreme heat.
Africa Focus Methodology
Tips from African Journalists on Cross-Border Investigations
African journalists who have worked on impactful cross-border investigations share lessons on uncovering illegal fishing, timber trafficking, and illicit money flows.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Government Coalition Collapse, Green-Washing Natural Gas, Europe’s Opioid Crisis: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in German
Also featured on our list, a #MeToo case in higher education, secret funding of ‘race science,’ and the state of Swiss prisons.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
The Blasphemy Business, Real Estate Land Grabs, Instagram Misinformation: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in Pakistan
Our annual best-of list features stories on Pakistan’s sanitary workers, links between politicians and sugar mills, and the endless construction of a Balochistan road.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Tracking Election Donations, Illicit Gold Markets, Parliamentary Stonewalling: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in India
Also featuring a look at algorithmic bias in dispensing food aid, corruption in the country’s largest civil service exam, and a tragic construction accident.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
GIJN’s Top Investigative Tools of 2024
In 2024, new and innovative digital tools provided leads and evidence for accountability stories on every continent.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
GIJN’s 10 Must-Read Stories of 2024
Featuring a showcase of game-changing reporting methods based on insider tips from real-world investigations and conference presentations.
Africa Focus Data Journalism
How Data Journalism Is Changing the Face of Africa
Data journalism in Africa has made a powerful impact, from holding leaders accountable to refuting myths around domestic violence. But the field faces formidable challenges.
Africa Focus Member Profiles
‘Sowing the Seed:’ The Museba Project’s Ambitious Investigative Journalism in Central Africa
Since its inception, the Cameroon-based journalism collective has had a double mission: first to train journalists, and then to encourage them to work together.
GIJC25
GIJC25 Registration Is Now Open
GIJN and Malaysiakini are excited to announce that registration for the Global Investigative Journalism Conference (#GIJC25) from Nov. 20-24, 2025 in Kuala Lumpur is now open.
10 Questions Africa Focus
Fighting a ‘Scourge of Secrecy’ and Uncovering Corruption in Malawi
GIJN’s Benon Herbert Oluka talks to Golden Matonga, investigations director at the Platform for Investigative Journalism – Malawi, about his career uncovering corruption.
Inside GIJN
GIJN 2024 Board Election Results: Four Incumbents Re-Elected, Three New Members
In all, 13 candidates vied for seven seats on the 15-member board. Board members serve for two years.
Africa Focus Case Studies
Secrets, Leaks, Rivers: How Cross-Border Investigative Journalism Is Covering Africa
Cross-border investigations are trending all over the world. GIJN talked to organizations promoting reporting partnerships in Africa about their experiences and challenges.
Africa Focus News & Analysis
Resilience, Courage, Defiance: African Investigative Journalism Is Meeting the Moment
GIJN talks to our African member organizations about their challenges and successes — and the state of Investigative journalism on the continent.
Data Journalism Top 10
US Election Post-Mortem, Spanish Flooding Destruction, Brazilian Polluters’ Campaign Influence, Attacks on Sudan Health Facilities
Also: the shifting frontlines in the Russia-Ukraine War, quantifying the worldwide funding gap to fight climate change, and mapping Central Asia’s disappearing Aral Sea basin.
How They Did It Research
How We Did It: Amnesty International’s Investigation of Algorithms in Denmark’s Welfare System
Amnesty Tech’s Algorithmic Accountability Lab led a sweeping probe into possible algorithmic bias and mass surveillance by Denmark’s welfare agency.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Trust Issues: Using Data to Dig Into Who Profits from US Tribal Lands
A recent investigation by Grist, a nonprofit independent media outlet, dug into federal datasets to uncover the extent of state trust lands on Indigenous reservations across the US.