How They Did It
Uncovering Syria’s Stolen Children
This collaborative investigation brought together international and local journalists to reveal how the Assad regime used a global childcare charity to aid the disappearance of children.
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GIJC25 News & Analysis
Documenting Gaza: How Journalists Can Collect Evidence Even When Denied Access
Journalists have used local reporting, open source analysis, and forensic reconstruction to verify events happening on the ground in Gaza, allowing them to challenge official narratives and preserve evidence for future accountability.
GIJC25 News & Analysis
How Journalists Can Untangle Global Corporate Secrecy
Speakers at this GIJC25 session dismantled the myth that offshore finance is inaccessible or unknowable and argued that the real barrier is not secrecy alone, but confidence, skill, and persistence.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Investigating Gaza, Personal Mobile Data for Sale, and Compromised Supply Chains: 2025’s Best Investigative Stories in French
Featuring stories from France to Tunisia, Canada to DR Congo, touching on allegations of abuses in the labour chain, corruption, and investigations into gold mining.
Getting the Story Out
‘Some Stories Just Work Better Through Film’: On the Strategy Behind Making an Investigative Documentary
Direkt36 co-founder Andras Petho speaks about how an investigative documentary became a rare viral success, what it revealed about Viktor Orban’s Hungary, and what other small newsrooms can learn from its impact.
GIJC25 Sustainability
‘No Cavalry Is Coming’: How Investigative Journalism Must Rethink Money, Metrics and Survival
This GIJC25 panel discussion surfaced a set of unresolved questions about what investigative journalism can sustainably support — and what it may need to leave behind.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
‘Ghost’ Prisoners, Missing Children, Anti-Corruption Wiretaps: 2025’s Best Investigative Stories from Ukraine
Despite domestic threats to press freedom and power cuts and sleepless nights from Russian attacks, Ukrainian independent journalists continue their work with depth and skill.
Data Journalism Top 10
Iran’s Internet Blackouts, TikTok Health Misinformation, Visualizing Venezuela’s Oil, and a Fatal Shooting by ICE
Our round-up of the best in recent data journalism also highlights noise pollution in Singapore, India’s ditching of Bollywood romance movies, and a visual investigation into rocket debris.
GIJC25 News & Analysis
Tips to Investigate AI Labor Abuses in the Global South
Workers in East Africa and South Asia are now paid low wages to perform behind-the-scenes data tasks are used to power AI-driven facial recognition systems around the world.
10 Questions
Lessons Learned Over Four Decades as an Investigative Journalist In India
One of India’s most renowned investigative reporters, Sarin has reported and edited stories digging into security, corruption, and money laundering.
News & Analysis
How to Run a Mission-based Organization: Lessons for Newsrooms from Doctors Without Borders
Investigative newsrooms and humanitarian organizations have a number of things in common, often because they are motivated by a desire to contribute to a broader social mission.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Lethal Firing Orders at Protests, Besieged Bawm Community, an Island Habitat in Peril: 2025’s Top Investigative Stories from Bangladesh
Also featuring in-depth looks at the country’s expansive surveillance state infrastructure, a generation of disappearances, and one company’s massive riverside land grab.
How They Did It
Tracing Lead Pollution in Nigeria to the Global Auto Supply Chain
Investigative reporters traced dangerously high lead contamination in Nigeria — revealing that recycled metal from used car batteries entered global supply chains linked to major US automakers.
GIJC25
Exposing Forced Labor and Human Trafficking in the World’s Oceans
Reporters exposing exploitation in the high seas use a combination of open source satellite imagery to track ships and documents to establish vessel ownership.
Sustainability
Growing a Small Nonprofit Can Be a Bit Like Adolescence — Painful, Difficult, Awkward
The authors, senior leaders at the Global Reporting Centre, write about the difficulties in changing from a fledgling start-up to a robust organization that is ‘set up to succeed.’
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Deadly Gaza Aid Sites, Damascus Dossier, Exploiting Sudanese Refugees: 2025’s Best Investigative Stories from the Middle East and North Africa
Also featuring exposés on sex-trafficking of workers in Dubai, secret mass deportations of Tunisians from the EU, and unlicensed addiction treatment centers in Egypt.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Digital Scam Trails, Deadly Hospital Infections, Harrowing Immigration Journeys: 2025’s Best Investigative Stories from India
Also featuring deep dives into rampant worker injuries in automobile factories, health hazards from imported scrap tires, and the politicization of the national archaeological survey.
From the Pitch Stage to the Write Up, the Line Edit to Publication: How Editors Can Help Investigative Stories
An editor can play a pivotal role in making or breaking a story’s impact. From narrowing complex stories to ensuring accuracy, great editing turns strong reporting into powerful journalism.
Editor's Picks
GIJN’s 10 Must-Read Stories of 2025
GIJN’s top stories from the past year, including cutting-edge reporting tools and techniques, in-person conference presentations, and analysis of the state of the IJ community.
Data Journalism Top 10 Editor's Picks
Editor’s Pick: Best of Data Journalism from 2025
Our roundup of standout data journalism from the past year highlights projects that delve into conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine, and Africa, that explore the rise of AI, and interrogate global trade wars.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Gold Mining Disasters, Lost Refugee Boats, AI-Powered Protest Crackdowns: Best Investigative Stories from Turkey in 2025
Investigative journalism in the country has shown remarkable resilience, depth, and impact despite operating under difficult conditions.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
GIJN Resource Center’s Top Guides for 2025
Highlights this year have included guides to investigating landfill emissions, detecting AI content online, digging into caste discrimination, and material to help reporters investigate possible war crimes.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Clandestine Airstrips, a Mexican Mega Leak, and a Crisis of Unidentified Missing People: 2025’s Best Investigative Stories in Spanish
The investigative stories produced in the Spanish-speaking world this year show a vibrant journalistic landscape, despite the many challenges reporters now face in many places.
Editor's Picks Reporting Tools & Tips
GIJN’s Top Investigative Tools of 2025
In a year that kleptocracy and attacks on independent media spiked, investigative reporters harnessed a mix of new databases and innovative tools to hold bad actors accountable.
GIJC25
Muckraking the Past: Using Archives to Seek Accountability
Archives are a powerful way to expose historical abuses — from war crimes to broken government promises — by preserving fragile evidence and turning it into a verifiable, searchable record.
GIJC25
Exposing Private Money Fueling the Climate Crisis
At this GIJC25 session, veteran environmental reporters offered strategies for unmasking the hidden owners, banks, politicians, and regulators quietly fueling climate change.
Reporting Tools & Tips
‘Too Close to Home’: Handling the Challenges of Investigations with a Personal Connection
Watchdog reporters at AIJC offered tips for navigating the professional, emotional, and ethical complications of reporting stories that intersect with your personal life.
GIJC25
Investigating the Criminal Schemes That Drive Online Gambling
An expert panel at GIJC25 described the multi-layered criminal infrastructures behind online gambling, and offered practical tactics to help reporters expose those networks.