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Tipsheet: How Journalists Can Use a UN Process to Evaluate National Human Rights Records
The UN process for evaluating national human rights records is long and complex, but offers valuable material for journalists.
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Investigating Latin America’s Global Reach Of Illicit Activities
How to cover illicit money flows, drug trafficking, and environmental crimes originating in Latin America but impacting communities worldwide.
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Full Report: The Investigative Agenda for Climate Change Journalism
What happened when 80 climate change journalists and experts met to discuss the future role of investigative journalism in climate crisis reporting.
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The Investigative Agenda for Climate Change Journalism
GIJN convened a one-day meeting of 80 climate change journalists and experts from 35 countries to discuss the future role of investigative journalism in climate crisis reporting.
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GIJC23 – Measuring Impact
Watchdog reporting makes a critical contribution to society by exposing wrongdoing, fighting corruption, and promoting accountability. But how do we measure this, and explain the value of investigative reporting to a skeptical public (and donors)? At a time of unprecedented attacks on the press, a broken financial model, and low public trust, it is critical […]
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GIJC23 – What Does AI Have to Do with Investigative Journalism? Everything!
If we follow the headlines, AI is either going to kill us all or solve all our problems. Meanwhile, in the real world, algorithms deployed in hospitals, schools, courts, and even refugee camps are creating new forms of discrimination and exclusion among the most vulnerable citizens. Actual, life-changing harm, not doomsday futuristic scenarios. In this […]
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GIJC23 – Plenary: Watchdog Journalism in the Age of Digital Subversion (keynote)
Our keynote speaker this year is Ron Deibert, director of the groundbreaking Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Deibert was among the first to sound the alarm about a global information security crisis — warning that the digital revolution would spark a new era of surveillance, censorship, and disinformation. Deibert’s interdisciplinary team at Citizen […]
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GIJN Updates Its Reporting Guide for Investigating Sexual Abuse
The subject of sexual violence remains a sensitive if not taboo subject in much of the world and often goes unreported. Watchdog journalism has started digging deeper into sexual violence, but these investigations are still few relative to the estimated number of cases worldwide. GIJN has now updated its reporting guide for this hard-to-cover subject.
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10 Investigative Questions to Ask after a Natural Disaster
Watchdog reporters should discard the idea that damage from natural disasters is simply due to “acts of nature,” and rather think of it as a mix of hazardous events and human actions.
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GIJN Bookshelf: Investigative Titles for Your 2022 Reading List
The year 2022 has seen a number of noteworthy books about investigative journalism, from going undercover to dig into corruption to investigating the underbelly of the global migration crisis, and from a deep dive into dodgy COVID contracts to a book from Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa.
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Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters: Chapter 2 — Preparing for Elections
We highlight the rules and technical trends that reporters need to be aware of, such as how voting procedures are changing and how to spot evidence of foreign interference.
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Lessons Learned from Syrian Journalists Investigating Russian War Crimes
Syrian journalists have gained extensive experience documenting possible human rights violations and war crimes by the Russian military. GIJN spoke with several of these reporters to understand the lessons they learned, and how investigative journalists can cover the Ukraine invasion more effectively.
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Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters: Chapter 1 — New Election Digging Tools
There is a small group of established, all-purpose digging tools and methods that are remarkably effective for many countries and election topics.
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Amateur Open Source Researchers Go Viral Unpacking the War in Ukraine
From college sophomores to 9-to-5 tech workers, open source hobbyist-investigators are gaining huge audiences by reconstructing events on the ground in Ukraine and elsewhere around the world.
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Russia’s Attack on the Free Press: Insight and Survival Strategies from Meduza and Novaya Gazeta
An editor from Novaya Gazeta and the chief executive of Meduza discussed ongoing censorship and other threats to independent media inside Russia, plus their plans for the future, during an International Press Institute webinar.
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Bellingcat’s Grozev on Investigating Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Christo Grozev, the executive director of Bellingcat, gives his insights for covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He talks about how the role of reporters has changed in modern day conflict, and reveals how his team is gathering and verifying data while focusing on investigating potential war crimes.
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Journalism Resources for Tracking Events in Ukraine
Following the news of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is difficult, especially if you’re not already extremely knowledgeable about the situation. So, Nieman Lab has compiled a resource list for journalists looking for reliable news coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Digging Into the Disinformation Campaign Behind Russia’s War on Ukraine
An interview between Nobel Peace prize-winning editor Maria Ressa and Ukrainian-born disinformation journalist Jane Lytvynenko revealed that long-running disinformation has been at the heart of Russia’s latest, and most devastating, attack on a democratic Ukraine.
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Lessons Learned from Investigating Misinformation Around the World
Gaëlle Faure edits stories about misinformation written by digital investigative and verification reporters based in Agence France-Presse’s bureaus in Africa, and also works on fact-check training for journalists around the world. In this interview, she speaks about her job at AFP and about the challenges that misinformation poses to journalists around the world.
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AI Journalism Lessons from a 150-Year-Old Argentinian Newspaper
For newsrooms looking to deepen their understanding of how artificial intelligence could be used for investigative reporting, the 150-year-old Argentinian newspaper La Nación is blazing a trail and has produced a diverse range of stories assisted by AI technologies and has created an AI lab.
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9 Essential Mapping Tools for Journalists in 2022
Learning to make appealing and informative maps to support your investigative journalism is well worth doing. The good news is that there are significantly more mapping tools available today than there were five years ago and many of them have become very powerful.
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How Environmental Journalists Can Use NASA’s New Landsat 9 Satellite
NASA’S Landsat 9 satellite went into orbit on September 27. After about three months of shakedown and calibration, it will be regularly downloading data to anyone who asks. It can show trends in deforestation (or afforestation or reforestation), forest health, agricultural crops, coastal erosion, drought and flooding, and more.
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Women Investigative Journalists on Work and Life
More and more women muckrakers are breaking important stories around the world. But despite increasing numbers and, to a lesser degree, more senior women in the business, there is still a lot to be done to fight inequality and discrimination.
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Lessons from the Data Harvest Conference in Europe
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]
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Libel tourism threatens journalists worldwide
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 […]
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Crowdsourcing in investigative journalism
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 […]
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Book on investigative reporting in China published
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 […]
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Website Launch of Investigative Journalism Manual
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. […]