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GIJN Guide to Investigating Foreign Lobbying
GIJN has created a reporting guide for journalists worldwide so they can research and produce compelling stories on how countries and companies seek to exert influence abroad.
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Guide to Investigating Fossil Fuels: The Industry’s Future
This chapter examines the energy transition in response to the climate crisis, and how the future of the fossil fuel industry remains relevant for investigative reporters.
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Guide to Investigating Fossil Fuels: Greenwashing
This chapter examines some of the fossil fuel industry’s claims and strategies that obstruct climate action, and offer tips for vetting and investigating them.
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Guide to Investigating Fossil Fuels: Government Regulations and Policies
This chapter looks at how governments support fossil fuels, both directly through tax breaks and subsidies, and indirectly by overlooking negative impacts of fossil fuel extraction and use.
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Guide to Investigating Fossil Fuels
This guide provides watchdog journalists with key context and practical advice to enable better investigations of the fossil fuel industry.
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Guide to Investigating Fossil Fuels: Lobbying
The chapter explores how fossil fuel companies seek to influence decision-makers and provides advice on uncovering evidence of these efforts and alerting the public.
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Guide to Investigating Fossil Fuels: Broader Industry Ecosystem
This chapter explores key players and stakeholders in the fossil fuel industry, including related industries, global financial institutions, public relations firms, and other relevant actors.
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Guide to Investigating Fossil Fuels: Private and State-Owned Companies
This guide’s chapter explains how journalists can bring to public attention the gaps between the fossil fuel industry’s climate promises and its actual business decisions.
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Guide to Investigating Fossil Fuels: Introduction
The aim of this reporting guide is to provide key context and practical advice to enable better investigations of the fossil fuel industry.
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Investigating Health and Medicine
Read our updated guide to reporting on health and medicine, featuring lessons learned from covering the coronavirus outbreak.
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Health and Medicine Guide: Preface & Introduction
Combining the methods and standards of muckraking and Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) can be highly effective.
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Health and Medicine Guide: Tips on Traps, Hype & Ethics
Although in parts of the world investigating pharmaceuticals can be physically dangerous, in others you risk your reputation rather than your life.
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Health and Medicine Guide: Regulating Drugs — Development & Approval
If your story is about drugs, it is essential to delve into their development and approval history.
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Investigating the Extractives Industry in Africa
This webinar was designed to equip investigative journalists with the knowledge and tools to enhance their watchdog reporting on Africa’s mining sector.
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Covering the Extractive Industries
Mineral extraction plays a dominant role in many economies and in the lives of billions of people. At what cost?
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GIJC23 – The New Organized Crime
Organized crime today is fluid, transnational, enterprising, and an estimated trillion-dollar industry. To talk about the state of 21st Century organized crime, we have an extraordinary panel of journalists with deep experience reporting on Mexico’s cartels, Italy’s mafias, and Asia’s Golden Triangle
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GIJC23 – Investigating Elections
In this panel we bring together four veteran reporters who have investigated political campaigns and elections around the world.
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Revised Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters: Investigating Candidates
Featuring tools to unearth candidates’ campaign finance histories; tips to connect with key sources; and resources to find hidden assets and red flags.
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Researching Corporations and Their Owners
This resource was last updated in 2023 by GIJN’s Toby McIntosh and Emily O’Sullivan. Investigative journalists play a crucial role in holding corporations to account, and have revealed labor abuses, environmental violations, corporate impunity and other instances of malpractice through deep-dives into companies and their owners. However, government records on corporations often reveal only the […]
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GIJC23 – Working with Hackers
Uyghur abuse and internment in China. Luxury properties in Austria owned by Belarus’s oil minister. Criminal exploitation of London’s company services industry. These investigations were all possible because of hacked data dumps. As a journalist, how do you negotiate with hackers or hacktivists? What questions do you ask? What are the ethical considerations? What are […]
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GIJC23 – Investigating Food & Agriculture
There are numerous investigative topics to explore between the farmer’s field and the grocery store – and, indeed, the plate – and several recent projects have exposed abuses in the production, distribution, and access to food. This expert panel offers deep experience in issues from fisheries and pesticides to food security and biodiversity — with journalists based in Tunisia, the UK, the US, and Southeast Asia.
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GIJC23 – Tracking Political Extremism
We are in the midst of a decade-long global backlash against democracy and human rights. A new extremism has taken hold, characterized by radical right-wing groups and ultranationalist political movements. These groups are not only growing but are becoming more organized. International ties among them are also growing — digitally, ideologically, financially — but their networks are poorly understood and investigative journalism in this area is lacking.
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GIJC23 – Criminal States & Kleptocracies
With the end of the Cold War, intelligence agencies brainstormed about what the next great security threat would be. It turned out they didn’t have to look far: the global advent of kleptocracies and criminal states now threatens democracy and accountable government almost everywhere. Kleptocracies — government by theft — now dominate in much of […]
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GIJC23 – Resources for Investigating Russia
Russia matters. A generation after the Cold War, Moscow still has thousands of nuclear weapons. By land mass, Russia is the world’s largest country, stretching from Europe to Asia and the Arctic, and it has influence over regional conflicts around the world — not just its disastrous invasion of Ukraine but in the Caucasus, Central […]
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GIJC23 – Investigations to Save Democracy
If there was just one panel to attend at GIJC23, this might be it. We’re witnessing a global assault on democratic institutions and a sustained global decline in democracies. Investigative journalism, in partnership with civil society, has emerged as a last line of defense for human rights and democratic principles in countries around the world — even where we thought we were secure. This panel features giants in the push-back against fascism and authoritarianism. We have an extraordinary lineup — Lina Attalah, Vinod Jose, and David Cay Johnston. — who will offer inspiration and tools to fight for a free and accountable future.
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GIJN Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes
This comprehensive guide includes expert advice from more than two dozen specialists and journalists.
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Reporting Guide to Holding Governments Accountable for Climate Change Pledges
The global fight against climate change depends on the actions of individual nations — so national accountability is critical.
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Asset Disclosure
Required disclosures by public officials about their income and assets can be invaluable to investigative journalists. And information about wealth and its sources can play a vital role in uncovering corruption. Official filings are often the starting point for classic follow-the-money stories. However, disclosure laws have gaps, so the public records don’t always reveal the […]