Organized Crime Reporting Tools & Tips
Latest Money Laundering Trends Journalists Should Watch For
A recent IRE conference panel focused on new money laundering strategies that make hiding illicit assets increasingly difficult to track.
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How They Did It Investigative Techniques
How Reporting From Six Years Ago Exposed a Political Fundraising Scandal That Rocked India’s Elections
Poonam Agarwal explains how her reporting six years ago ultimately led to one of the biggest political fundraising scandals in a decade.
Databases Investigative Techniques
Guide to Investigating Digital Ad Libraries
Digital investigations expert Craig Silverman offers a short guide to using digital ad libraries to dig through online influence efforts.
News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
The Art of the Interview: Tips from BBC Veteran Kirsty Young
The longtime host of the BBC’s beloved interview show, Desert Island Discs, reveals how she disarms poets and politicians alike.
Data Journalism Getting the Story Out
How to Investigate When the State Conceals Data: Lessons from Belarus
Belarusian journalist Alina Yanchur shared the investigative methods adopted by those who have to work without access to state-published information.
News & Analysis
GIJN Co-Hosts International Journalists, Honors Investigative Reporter Chuck Lewis at IRE24
Journalists and editors from 20 different countries joined GIJN staff at the International Luncheon on Friday, June 21, at the IRE24 Conference in Anaheim, California.
Data Journalism Top 10
Data Journalism Top 10: Analyzing Opposition to US Aid for Ukraine, Algorithm to Flag Illegal Timber, Modi’s Lost Support, and Elections in Europe
Also highlighting stories on gains and losses in recent elections from Europe to India, claims of copyright theft by AI companies, and Peru’s broken adoption process.
Awards, Grants, & Fellowships News & Analysis
GIJN Honors Chuck Lewis: Pioneer of Nonprofit Investigative Journalism
US muckraker Chuck Lewis founded two Pulitzer Prize-winning news organizations, launched innovation incubators, and authored several investigative books.
How They Did It Investigative Techniques
‘Smoke and Lies’: How Visual Forensics Disproved Official Accounts of a Deadly Migrant Center Fire
Lighthouse Reports journalists share how their cross-border collaboration investigated the deaths of 40 people in a fire at a migrant detention center.
Methodology Reporting Tools & Tips
Common Mistakes in Cross-Border Investigations — And How to Fix Them
At a Dataharvest 2024 panel, three well-established investigative reporters spoke about their past mistakes, failures, and other errors that almost cost them a story.
Tipsheet Investigative Techniques Reporting Tools & Tips
Reporter’s Tipsheet for Acquiring Free Satellite Images
There is a treasure trove of compelling visual evidence out there that is going unused by many watchdog journalists. Here’s how to find it.
Member Profiles Sustainability
How Serbia’s CINS Pushes Investigative Journalism Outside the State Media ‘Bubble’
Facing attacks and threats from politicians and partisan media, the outlet has turned to innovative reporting formats to increase audience engagement and public interest in watchdog journalism.
Tipsheet Reporting Tools & Tips Research
Toolkit: How to Investigate Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing
A Pulitzer Center toolkit for illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, which impacts marine ecosystems, coastal communities, food security, and human rights.
Investigative Techniques News & Analysis News & Analysis
Lessons Learned from the Fact-Checking Collective That Covered India’s National Elections
How a fact-checking collective in India fought misinformation and deepfakes in that country’s recently concluded elections.
Investigative Techniques Research
‘The Cost of Free Land’: Investigating a Personal and National Legacy of Indigenous Land Theft
Rebecca Clarren’s investigative history grapples with her immigrant family’s success at the expense of their Indigenous neighbors.
Conference Resources Reporting Tools & Tips
How Investigative Journalists Can Fight Back Against Health Misinformation
A new wave of investigative health journalism is exposing deadly misinformation, turning complex data into accessible truths that can save millions of lives.
Data Journalism Top 10
Dangerous Flight Turbulence, Trump’s Felony Convictions, Missing Sudan War Coverage, and Iran’s Aging Aircraft Fleet
We also highlight a look at Sudan’s “forgotten” war, the microplastics seeping into our water and bodies, and how cocaine from Colombia reaches the world.
Investigative Techniques Reporting Tools & Tips
Dissecting Propaganda: Using AI to Cut Through North Korean TV Spin
Accessing information from isolated nations like North Korea is difficult. Cutting-edge AI tools now enable efficient analysis of foreign language video broadcasts.
Investigative Techniques
29 Journalists Graduate from GIJN’s Third Digital Threats Training Course
The third cohort of GIJN’s online training in cyber and digital threats investigations has now completed, graduating journalists from more than 26 countries.
Data Journalism Reporting Tools & Tips
Tips for Using Data in a Small Newsroom
Small newsrooms need to focus on the importance of data use more than ever — but they often face numerous hurdles, including a lack of funding and limited human resources.
Data Journalism Reporting Tools & Tips
Harnessing the Power of Global Forest Watch for Data-Driven Reporting on Land Cover Change
A Mongabay senior editor shares tips for unlocking the full capabilities of Global Forest Watch, a free-to-use online platform that she says has been instrumental in her reporting.
Awards, Grants, & Fellowships Reporting Tools & Tips
Investigating ‘Cattle Laundering’ and Deforestation in the Amazon: Interview with the 2024 Goldman Prize Winner
The 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize went to a multi-year exposé tracing the connection between meat sold in Western supermarkets and illegal deforestation in Brazil.
News & Analysis
Why Investigative Journalists Should Report on Lax Oversight and Fraud in Research Data
Uri Simonsohn, a behavioral scientist who coauthors the Data Colada blog, urges reporters to ask researchers about preregistration and expose opportunities for academic fraud.
Investigative Techniques News & Analysis
Building Trust and Authenticity in Visual Journalism in the Age of Deepfakes
Photo editors and AI experts discuss the dangers of generative AI and other synthetic media to visual journalism — and what news organizations can do to reduce them.
Fundraising Sustainability
Solving Investigative Journalism’s ‘Profit Puzzle’ — From Diversification to Independence
Experts discuss their experiences with diversifying revenue along with their successes, failures, and how they have balanced revenue and independence.
Reporting Tools & Tips Teaching & Training
Greatest Hits from a ‘Journalism in the Movies’ Course
The portrayal of journalists on film over the years has helped instil an understanding of what journalism is and what reporters do. Here are some of our favourites from around the world.
Investigating Crime, Climate Change, or Elections? See What’s New in the GIJN Resource Center
From a guide to covering the extractive industries to a resource setting out awards for investigative journalism, here’s a rundown of GIJN’s latest guides and tipsheets.
Data Journalism Top 10
How UK Tories Are Losing Their Majority, Flooding in Southern Brazil, and Mothers Searching for Their Missing Children in Mexico
Also featuring threats to European groundwater, the impact of Soviet engineering on Ukraine’s Dnieper River, and workplace risks to South Korean food delivery drivers.