GIJN’s Resource Center is here to help journalists expand their knowledge and skills. The Center holds more than 2,000 items in 14 languages – from tip sheets and guides to instructional videos. Use the menu on the right to navigate it or the search box below to find topics you’re interested in.
Here´s our latest report from this year’s Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) conference. More and more tipsheets and slides are getting online, so today we’re sharing the best from Saturday as well as some tools from previous days that we hadn’t mentioned yet.
Here’s our next report from this year’s Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) conference: The second day at IRE’s 2013 conference is also a busy one, with more than 60 panels and workshops, and plenty of networking opportunities. More than 1,200 journalists are at the San Antonio, Texas, gathering, which today featured mentoring sessions in which senior journalists shared tips and experience with younger ones, lots of data journalism training, and panels ranging from managing investigative teams to following international money trails.
The Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Conference is the largest gathering of investigative journalists in the United States. This year, more than 1,000 journalists are coming together here in San Antonio, Texas, to attend 100-plus panels, workshops, and roundtables. Many of the activities here are hands-on sessions in which experts share useful tips and tricks for everyday work. Below you can find some handy tools and resources shared during the first day of the conference. More to come!
Seeking a chance to improve your skills and expand your world? Tired of the everyday routine in your newsroom? We’ve updated our guide to grants and fellowships of special interest to investigative journalists around the world. There are plenty of short-term and long-term opportunities, both for staff and freelance reporters. Follow the links for information on deadlines and background on the various programs.
Need to contact a journalist abroad for a story? Seeking a contact in a remote part of the world? Here are nonprofit organizations worldwide that work in support of investigative journalism, listed by region. It’s a diverse group that includes nonprofit newsrooms, online publishers, professional associations, NGOs, training institutes, and academic centers in nearly 50 countries.
As our governments and businesses become increasingly flush with information, more and bigger data are becoming available from across the globe. Increasingly, investigative reporters need to know how to obtain, clean, and analyze “structured information” in this digital world. Otherwise, they and the news organizations they work for will miss some of the most important […]
One of the bright spots in investigative journalism over the past decade has been the rapid spread of nonprofits dedicated to supporting in-depth journalism around the world. A 2012 survey by the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) identified 106 investigative journalism nonprofits in nearly 50 countries – with more than half of them founded […]
Today, more than 90 countries have laws that require officials to turn over public records, and the number continues to grow each year. And even in countries with no laws specifying whether records should be made available, it never hurts to ask.
Below are a few of the best resources for journalists seeking to file records requests in countries with laws governing access to information.
Español Journalists are being strongly urged to protect their communications and information from growing threats. Yet several studies show that most of us in the media, despite believing the danger is real, are not adopting basic protections. The Rory Peck Foundation issued a Digital Security Guide aimed at freelancers, stressing that “even taking small, simple […]
The figures are grim for our colleagues around the world. Since 1992, more than 1,400 journalists have been killed, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Well over 890 of them have been murdered with impunity; that is, no killer was ever brought to justice. And today, more than 274 journalists are in prison worldwide, […]
Here are nonprofit and related organizations worldwide that work in support of investigative journalism, listed by region. It is a diverse group that includes nonprofit newsrooms, online publishers, professional associations, NGOs, training institutes, and academic centers in nearly 50 countries. For inclusion, GIJN applied the following criteria: the group is structured as a nonprofit or […]
You’d think that getting the names of the shareholders of a company would be fairly easy. Such information should be routinely available. In fact in many parts of the world, it isn’t. Not if you’re talking about private companies, which have managed to elude public scrutiny even in an era of increasing transparency. To be […]
Planespotters are hobbyists who have a passion for planes: they track, photograph and record aircraft takeoffs and landings, taking note of registration numbers and other markings. I became interested in planespotting some years ago, after viewing the clever video posted by the Tunisian blogger Astrubal, who put together planespotters’ photographs of the Tunisian presidential plane’s comings and goings.
Large bribes paid to public officials are difficult to track. Hardly ever are the bribes delivered in suitcases of cash – although that has been known to happen. More often than not, bribes are paid through bank transfers made to ”corporate vehicles” – companies, foundations and trusts – that have been set up to conceal illegally […]
Having grown up during the Marcos era, I have a morbid fascination with corruption that takes place on a grand scale. By the time their 20-year reign ended in 1986, Ferdinand Marcos and his glittering wife Imelda had amassed a fortune estimated at $10-$20 billion dollars and stashed in Swiss banks, artwork and real estate, […]
Close to 100 journalists, vizualisers and hackers gathered data and shared methods 6th to 8th of May 2012 in Brussels. [View the story “Lessons from Data Harvest Festival in Europa” on Storify]
The 7th global investigative journalism conference in Kiev was the place for so many new presentations on tools and methods. Inside you will find links to many.
(By Dan Meredith) While I am by no means a seasoned investigative journalist, I have the good fortune to work with some. Looking ten years back I couldn’t imagine a media organization considering geek qualifications a core part of an investigative team. In 2011, turning a geek into an investigative journalist is a no-brainer. The […]
Over the past several years, the ubiquity of data journalism has increased. Last year, the Guardian released a how-to guide on becoming a data journalist, and earlier in October Poynter published five essential tips for getting started in data journalism. But what exactly is data journalism? Data journalism is the combination of several fields – […]
A report by Drew Sullivan — a journalist, editor, and media development specialist with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project — is generating buzz on the GIJ listserv and is essential reading for journalists worldwide. Sullivan’s report , written for the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), explains how lawsuits can force media organizations […]
13. oktober 2010 17:06 [This is the first of a new GIJN feature on investigative techniques.] By Nils Mulvad Crowdsourcing is normally regarded as defined in 2006. Jeff Howe is often credited with the term “crowdsourcing” in a Wired article of June 2006, entitled “The Rise of Crowd sourcing”. Wikipedia defines it as: “Crowdsourcing is […]
11. oktober 2010 22:01 The China Media Project has published “Investigative Journalism in China,” which is available from Amazon.com It has an introduction by veteran investigative journalist Ying Chan,who is at the Journalism and Media Studies Center at Hong Kong University. Here is the editors’ summary of the book: “Despite persistent pressure from state censors […]
4 November 2010 Johannesburg: The regional Media Programme of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) in South Africa announces the website launch of the Investigative Journalism Manual (IJM). http://investigative-journalism-africa.info investigative-journalism-africa.com ijm-africa.com ijm-africa.co.za investigative.co.za The manual is unique in that it is a training kit, while at the same time serving as a general source of information. […]
Mark Hunter’s acclaimed handbook Story-Based Inquiry: A Manual for Investigative Journalists is available at no cost to GIJN members by clicking here.
Paul Cristian Radu’s investigative handbook, Follow the Money, is available free of charge. Just click here.
Submitted by globadmin on Tue, 2010-01-26 18:12 A series of Investigative Journalism Manuals, conceptualised and produced by FAIR in partnership with the University of the Witwatersrand and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, have been placed online at the FAIR website www.fairreporters.org/home. The ‘IJ Manuals’ are tailor-made to assist investigative journalists who operate in Africa or in […]
