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The New Journalist: 13 Media Sites to Keep You in the Know

by Maria Teresa Ronderos • December 12, 2017

There is a growing number of media and journalism schools and research centers investigating new trends, helping to understand digital disruption and its impact. With their newsletters, websites and interactive online training, they can inform you about inspiring innovations, share academic research, spot threats, provoke critical thinking, highlight valuable journalistic endeavors and report on moves in the industry that will affect how stories reach people. Here are 13 you don’t want to miss.

Reporting Tools & Tips

Journalism Bots: A Quick History and Ideas for Use in Your Newsroom

by Alastair Otter • December 11, 2017

Bots in newsrooms are becoming increasingly commonplace as a growing number of publishers experiment with various automated services to expand their coverage, help journalists do their jobs better or improve relationships with readers. Here’s a quick history of the bot in newsrooms, and ideas for employing them in yours.

Q&A with the Muckraker Extraordinaire Who Made the Politico 28

by Stella Roque • December 7, 2017

Anuška Delić is not someone who goes unnoticed. Opinionated, brazen and bold, her tenacity and relentlessness has made her the foremost investigative reporter in Slovenia and among the most influential in Europe. This week, she’s made the POLITICO 28 Class of 2018, “the list of doers, disrupters and dreamers who will transform European life, politics and ideas.”

Data Journalism

This Week’s Top Ten in Data Journalism

by GIJN & Connected Action • December 7, 2017

What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from November 27 to December 3 has @journocode’s festive data-driven advent calendar with tutorials and interviews, @FT mapping cities at risk of natural disasters affecting property prices, and a #VisualizationUniverse by Google News Lab and Adioma.

News & Analysis

ARIJ Awards Top Investigative Journalists in Mideast, North Africa

by ARIJ • December 6, 2017

Journalists from Egypt, Yemen and Jordan who exposed human rights abuse and state-run mass surveillance took top prizes for the best investigations in print, film and multimedia in 2017 at the 10th Forum for Arab Investigative Journalists this weekend.

News & Analysis

Stiglitz Keynote: Media Power in Post-Truth World

by GIJN Staff • December 5, 2017

At the keynote event of the 2017 Global Investigative Journalism Conference, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz addresses speaks on “Media Power in a Post-Truth World.” Stiglitz is interviewed by Sheila Coronel, academic dean of the Columbia Journalism School.

Data Journalism

Bringing Data Journalism to China

by Ruobing Su and Yumeng Ren • December 5, 2017

Zhimin Huang is widely cited as one of the first people to do data journalism in China. He spoke with Storybench about the state of data journalism in China and his perspective on data accessibility in the country.

#GIJC17: Spotlight on Africa

by Safeeyah Kharsany • December 4, 2017

Almost 500 African journalists met with their global counterparts in Johannesburg at #GIJC17, the largest international gathering of investigative journalists, to sharpen their skills for a new era of digging out the muck.

Case Studies

How They Did It: Methods and Tools Used to Investigate the Paradise Papers

by Fabiola Torres López • December 4, 2017

Fabiola Torres López writes about the tools and programs that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists team who worked on the Paradise Papers — 383 reporters from 67 countries — became familiar with during the investigation. They are divided into three categories: digital security, document search and data connections.

News & Analysis

Fake News Took Over the Arab World Long Ago. But Investigative Journalism Might Save It

by Rana Sabbagh • December 1, 2017

This week, some 400 Arab journalists will be meeting at Jordan’s Dead Sea for the 10th Annual Arab Investigative Journalism Forum. Rana Sabbagh writes about the Arab world’s fake news epidemic — and how some Arab journalists are fighting back.

Case Studies

De Correspondent’s Successful Membership Model

by Frederic Filloux • November 30, 2017

Started in the Netherlands in 2013, De Correspondent wants to export its membership model to the United States. Will it fly?

Case Studies

FOIA This! — Requests Uncover Green News

by Toby McIntosh • November 29, 2017

Freedom of information requests have fueled recent environmental stories around the world. GIJN’s Resource Center director, Toby McIntosh, put together a round-up of a few that might stimulate your investigative thinking.

Case Studies

How a News Outlet Raised $600K with a DPO

by Nancy Watzman • November 28, 2017

A for-profit “local newspaper without the paper” in California raised nearly $600,000 via a “direct public offering,” or DPO. Here’s how it works, and how it might work for your media organization.

Reporting Tools & Tips

How Muckrakers Use Crowdsourcing: Case Studies from ProPublica to The Guardian

by Toby McIntosh • November 27, 2017

The creative use of social media has given journalists new ways to solicit tips as well as tap readers’ expertise, opinions and personal experiences. GIJN’s Toby McIntosh has rounded up some of the best examples of community engagement in stories as well as a list of resources and ideas for crowdsourcing.

Data Journalism

Seven Trends in Data Visualization

by Alastair Otter • November 24, 2017

Data visualization is constantly changing as new technologies emerge and new techniques are discovered. Data visualization experts Lena Groeger and Jane Pong look at some of the current trends.

And Here’s the Wrap: #GIJC17 Highlights

by Eunice Au • November 21, 2017

The 10th Global Investigative Journalism Conference was an intense five days of sharing, learning, networking and creating new journalism partnerships. The event was a huge “gathering of troublemakers and the world’s worst nightmares under a single roof.” Here are some highlights from the conference.

GIJN Votes Hamburg for GIJC19, Elects Board

by GIJN Staff • November 19, 2017

Global Investigative Journalism Network members have voted to hold the next Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Hamburg, Germany. GIJN’s member groups also voted to re-elect five current board members who were up for election this year, and two new board members.

Stiglitz on Trump, Truth, Inequality and Investigative Journalism

by Ufrieda Ho • November 19, 2017

Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz spoke to a room packed with investigative journalists from around the world at the #GIJC17 closing keynote address at Wits University’s Great Hall in Johannesburg about Trump, truth, inequality and the importance of investigative journalism.

Investigative Stories from Iraq, Nigeria Win Global Shining Light Award

by GIJN Staff • November 18, 2017

Winners of the seventh Global Shining Light Awards were announced at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference tonight in Johannesburg, South Africa. Top prizes went to gutsy investigations of missing funds in Iraq and extra-judicial killings in Nigeria, with citations of excellence to exposes of arms trafficking in Eastern Europe and complicity behind anti-Muslim riots in India.

Reporting Tools & Tips

Reporting on Slavery: Tips from the Pros

by Thalia Holmes • November 18, 2017

A staggering 40 million people in the world exist in some form of slavery today. Learn how to investigate this inherently secretive industry from top journalists in the field.

Reporting Tools & Tips

How to Track Looted Wealth: Tips for Reporters

by Stella Roque • November 17, 2017

Show me the money! Experts from around the world shared their tips about how to track looted wealth at the 2017 Global Investigative Journalism Conference.

News & Analysis

African Muckracking: Exposing Genocide

by Anya Schiffrin & George Lugalambi • November 17, 2017

Launched at #GIJC17, African Muckraking: 75 Years of Investigative Journalism from Africa is a collection of investigative and campaigning journalism written by Africans about Africa. This collection of 41 pieces of African journalism includes passionate and committed writing on labour abuses, police brutality, women’s rights, the struggle for democracy and independence on the continent. Here’s an excerpt from the book.

Research

Fixing the Journalist-Fixer Relationship

by Peter W. Klein & Shayna Plaut • November 16, 2017

A new study explores the divisions between fixers and correspondents, as GIJN-member Global Reporting Centre examines alternate models of doing foreign reporting. The Centre’s Peter W Klein will be presenting the findings of the research at #GIJC17.

Research

Measuring Impact: Best Practices in Gauging the Impact of Investigative Journalism

by GIJN Staff • November 16, 2017

The GIJN report “Investigative Impact: The Role of Investigative Journalism in Fostering Change – and How to Measure It,” is being released today at #GIJC17 in Johannesburg. Here is an excerpt from the report.

News & Analysis

The Essential #GIJC17 Cheat Sheet

by GIJN Staff • November 15, 2017

And we’re off! This evening in Johannesburg at the University of the Witwatersrand, we’ll be kicking off four days of unadulterated investigative journalism. For those of you who couldn’t make it to Joburg, here’s how to follow us from home, as well as highlights of #GIJC17.

A Program That Turns Doctors into Muckrakers

by Robert Steiner • November 13, 2017

A new kind of journalism school is turning subject-matter specialists into investigative reporters. The University of Toronto has now trained 17 doctors and health professionals along with 58 other specialists to work as journalists, some of whom have quickly become award-winning reporters.

Human Trafficking Organized Crime

Human Trafficking Resources: Best Practices in Reporting

November 11, 2017

News & Analysis

#Colpin2017: Latin America’s Best Investigative Projects

by Erika Lozano • November 10, 2017

The Institute for Press and Society and Transparency International for Latin America and the Caribbean awarded the Latin American Prize for Investigative Journalism to the Salvadoran newspaper El Faro for its work “Why Do 90% of Child Rapes Go Unpunished?”

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