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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.
News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
Five Ways to Stay Online During a Government Internet Shutdown
Shutting down the internet has become an increasingly common tactic of governments and regimes looking to prevent civil society and free media from operating. Here, experts in privacy and security give their advice on the tools and tactics for skirting internet blackouts.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Video Resources for Mapping, Satellites, Storytelling, Testing, Tracking, and Disinformation
To share best practices from our most recent global conference, GIJC21, we are releasing a series of videos from the event’s many seminars, panels, and workshops. This latest installment focuses on investigative tips and tools for using satellite imagery, flight tracking, and exposing disinformation.
Investigative Journalism Workshop for Arab Gulf Journalists June 26-30
Are you an enterprising journalist based in a Persian Gulf Arab country or a Gulf journalist who works from exile? Looking for a chance to develop your investigative skills? If so, we have a unique opportunity for you: a free, intensive workshop taught by leading journalists and outside experts.
News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
‘Reporting from the Outside’: Lessons from Investigative Journalists in Exile
Many autocracy-displaced media have managed to navigate surviving outside their home country with varying degrees of success. In a series of interviews with GIJN, exiled news leaders from around the world offer some best practices and lessons learned from their own experiences.
Data Journalism
Data Journalism Top 10: Internet Shutdowns, Elon Musk’s Tweets, Russian Army Deaths, Accessible Dataviz
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism features an analysis of talk show host Tucker Carlson’s extremist rhetoric, a look at Elon Musk’s Twitter usage, a reconstruction of the battle in Mariupol, and tips to make data visualization more accessible to readers with disabilities.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Document of the Day: 2022 World Press Freedom Index
Reporters Sans Frontiéres released its 2022 World Press Freedom Index, calling out the growing threat of polarization and “information chaos,” and their potentially disastrous impact on independent media around the world.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Video Resources for Investigative Journalism Safety and Security
To share best practices and other lessons learned from our most recent global conference, GIJC21, we are releasing a series of videos from the event’s many seminars, panels, and workshops. This latest installment focuses on reporter safety, digital security, and source protection.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
On World Press Freedom Day, Journalism Increasingly Faces Digital and Physical Threats
On World Press Freedom Day 2022, journalists around the world, many of them now in exile, are pushing back against a growing crackdown on a free press.
GIJN Webinar: Funding Independent Journalism in South Asia
This webinar by the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) and the Center of Excellence in Journalism (CEJ) brings together journalists from across South Asia to discuss how to make independent news organizations economically sustainable.
Data Journalism
Data Journalism Top 10: Climate Game, Tax Inequality, Weather Proverbs, Musical Politics, Who’s in Your Wallet
Our weekly curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter highlights a climate change policy game, an analysis of banknote representation, an examination of how America’s tax system favors the ultra-wealthy, and the sonification of French polling data.
Case Studies Reporting Tools & Tips
Tips for Investigative Reporters from Winners of the Goldsmith Prize
Two Washington Post reporters discuss how they overcame obstacles, talked to hesitant sources, and built their own datasets to investigate failures at the agency that manages disasters in the United States, offering their tips for other reporters in the process.
Reporting Tools & Tips Safety & Security
Why Source Protection Begins With Your Smartphone Contacts
In an era when an investigative reporter’s contacts are often all stored on their smartphone or in the cloud, digital security best practices are paramount to protect your sources.
News & Analysis
From COVID Scandals to Chemical Explosions: South Africa’s Leading Investigations from 2021
The Taco Kuiper Awards are South Africa’s prestigious prize for investigative reporting. Here are the opening remarks from the judges for the 16th annual award, the shortlist, and winners for reporting produced in 2021.
GIJN Webinar for African Journalists: Compelling Journalism — Fresh Approaches to Packaging Investigative Content
In this online webinar, free to all journalists across Africa and beyond, GIJN brings together four senior journalists who will discuss how their organizations have used available platforms and other ways to reach new and wider audiences, and they will share the tools they have created to distribute or repackage investigative content.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Video Resources for Health, Women, Podcasts, & Indigenous Issues
To share best practices and other lessons learned from our most recent global conference, GIJC21, we are releasing a series of videos from the event’s many seminars, panels, and workshops. This latest installment focuses on key issues like health and medicine, women’s leadership, investigative podcasts, and Indigenous reporting.
News & Analysis Sustainability
‘We Were Born Digital’: Premesh Chandran on the Success of Malaysiakini
Malaysiakini gained a global reputation by remaining independent while publishing in a restrictive media atmosphere. After 22 years at the helm, co-founder Premesh Chandran speaks about creating a quadrilingual website that receives millions of unique pageviews a day, and about helping to change the media conversation in Malaysia.
News & Analysis
Q & A: Turning Our Tinder Swindler Investigation into a Netflix Hit
What does it feel like when Netflix calls to ask about turning your investigation into a documentary for a global audience? We speak to two of the Norwegian journalists behind The Tinder Swindler investigation to ask how they navigated the process and how they felt seeing their story appear on one of the world’s largest streaming platforms.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Sigma Awards: 10 Lessons for Data Journalists Around the World
The Sigma Awards celebrate the best in data journalism from around the world. Speaking at the Perugia International Journalism Festival, three of the founders of the award highlighted the best projects of recent years and pointed to what journalists can learn from these data stories.
Funding Your Investigations and Business Strategies: What the Experts Say
It’s not enough to simply have a great idea or great reporting. You need a team, you need travel, and you need support — and, increasingly, that means you need fundraising. In this collection of videos from our most recent conference, GIJC21, we feature sessions on fundraising investigative projects and gathering resources to fund your newsroom.
