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Guide to Investigating Caste
Investigating caste issues is crucial for understanding India’s socioeconomic dynamics and addressing systemic inequalities.
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Revised Elections Reporting Guide for Investigative Reporters: New Digging Tools
Featuring overlooked election-digging strategies, go-to open source tools, and a technique for identifying the individuals behind dangerous or hateful campaign sites.
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GIJN Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters — Revised for 2024
Featuring a broad array of tools, techniques, and resources to help watchdog reporters dig into almost any campaign or election.
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Revised Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters: Where to Begin
This guide is designed to offer a broad array of tools, techniques, and resources to help reporters dig into almost any election or political campaign.
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Revised Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters: Preparing for Elections
Covering rules and technical trends, such as how voting procedures are changing in different regions and how to spot evidence of foreign interference.
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Revised Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters: Political Messaging and Disinformation
Containing tips for tracking political conversations, campaign advertisements, and disinformation narratives online.
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Investigating War Crimes
This webinar shares methodologies for investigating war and conflict, and provide a briefing on the laws that govern what, in popular usage, are called “war crimes.”
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Guide to Investigating Disability Issues: Chapter 5 — Case Studies
Ten investigations and stories tackling disability issues around the world to inspire your next investigation.
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Editor’s Pick: 2022’s Best Investigative Stories in India
GIJN’s Hindi editor offers his picks for the best investigative journalism stories from India during 2022.
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Editor’s Pick: 2022’s Best Investigative Stories about China and Taiwan
GIJN presents our editor’s picks for the best investigative journalism stories from China and Taiwan during 2022.
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How GIJN Advisory Services Helped Newsrooms in Indonesia and India
GIJN Advisory Services has launched the Investigative Journalism Assessment Program (IJ-MAP), which allows us to offer a free, in-depth assessment of an organization, and follow up with expert advice from media consultants in priority areas such as investigative reporting, data journalism, revenue development, and digital audience reach.
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Guide to Investigating Organized Crime in the Golden Triangle: Chapter 2 — Official Complicity in Drug Trafficking
GIJN’s new guide to investigating organized crime in Asia’s Golden Triangle, with this chapter digging into how official corruption aids and abets drug trafficking in the region.
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Investigating Mpox: An Explainer and Resource Tipsheet
To help investigative journalists with their reporting on the Mpox public health emergency, The Journalist’s Resource has gathered numerous key facts, resources, and peer-reviewed studies.
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How to Investigate a Billion-Dollar Corporate Fraud
Once a $30 billion global bluechip financial services and tech company, Germany’s Wirecard filed for insolvency in 2021 in what is one of the biggest corporate frauds of the modern era. The tenacious and prolonged investigative reporting by the Financial Times, helped to uncover widespread fraud, malpractice and negligence. Dan McCrum, a senior Financial Times […]
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How to Investigate Elections
The state of democracy is at its lowest point in decades. Around the world, free and fair elections face growing threats from disinformation campaigns, foreign interference, voter suppression, campaign corruption, violence, intimidation, and more. Covering elections as a political “horse race” has never been enough. This approach to campaign reporting is even more inadequate today, […]
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Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters: Chapter 4 — Investigating Political Messaging and Disinformation
This final installment in GIJN’s guide to investigating elections focuses on how to investigate online disinformation and the sources behind it.
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Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters: Chapter 3 — Investigating Candidates
This fourth installment in GIJN’s guide to investigating elections focuses on how to investigate political candidates and their human and financial connections.
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Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters: Introduction
This GIJN guide is designed to offer a broad array of tools, techniques, and resources to help watchdog reporters dig into almost any campaign, candidate, or election abuse.
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10 Case Studies in Human Trafficking
Full guide here. العربية Below we profile 10 stories of trafficking and forced labor common throughout the countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council region, which includes the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman. Domestic Workers: Trafficking and Unscrupulous Recruitment Indian Women Duped by Recruiters. Indian women are regularly trafficked through the United Arab […]