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Reporter’s Guide to Detecting AI-Generated Content
This guide offers journalists a new detection tool and seven advanced techniques for spotting probable AI-generated content.
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Investigating US Government — and Trump Administration — Influence in Your Country
The US government engages with virtually every country in the world and each new president can radically change its policy. Here’s GIJN’s updated tipsheet on digging into global US influence.
Guide Resource
The Oceans Investigations Guide
This encyclopedia from The Outlaw Ocean Project offers pointers for investigating ocean crimes and concerns.
Chapter Guide Resource
Introduction to Investigative Journalism: Collaborations
The rewards of collaborating can be huge for investigative journalists: greater visibility of your story, increased potential for impact and in some cases better protection.
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.
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.
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Investigating Elections: Threat from AI Audio Deepfakes
Elections all over the world are endangered by a vast array of sophisticated digital threats. This year, when more voters head to the polls than ever before, AI-driven deepfakes threaten electoral processes everywhere, with potentially disastrous consequences for at-risk democracies. AI-generated audio simulations — in which a real voice is cloned by a machine learning […]
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How to Identify and Investigate AI Audio Deepfakes, a Major 2024 Election Threat
Experts agree that AI-driven audio deepfakes could pose a significant threat to democracy and fair elections in 2024.
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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.”
Resource Video
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 – Visual Investigations: Reporting Techniques
Once considered merely a form of fact-checking, forensic visual investigation has rapidly become a critical method of journalistic inquiry, thanks to new technologies, innovative skills, and the global ubiquity of social media imagery. In the chaos of dramatic public events, forensic visual reporting teams can now often answer the question: Who did exactly what, and […]
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GIJC23 – Tracking Assets Around the World
In this global economy, it’s become easy to hide one’s assets overseas, whether you’re a Mexican crime boss or a Russian oligarch. Backgrounding an individual’s holdings is essential, but ferreting out front companies, tax dodges, and hidden assets can be a tough undertaking. Here are two of the best at doing this. ———————– The Global […]
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GIJC23 – Plane and Ship Tracking
A raft of new tools are helping journalists track shipping and aircraft around the world. The numerous ways to track ships and planes open a whole new range of stories for journalists to investigate, from following billionaires’ private planes to uncovering the details of refugee boats capsizing. ———————– The Global Investigative Journalism Network is an […]
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GIJC23 – How to Use Satellite Images for Investigation
Satellite images play a crucial role in many investigations. Reporters are using them to analyze battlefields and war crimes. Eyes from above also are invaluable for many kinds of climate change stories, such as to document methane emissions, drought, and sea level rise. Our expert panelists will discuss many possible opportunities for using satellite images. […]
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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 – 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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GIJC23 – AI: Perils and Promise
The rise of AI-powered chatbots has prompted hot debates about whether these technologies will reshape or unmake our world. But instead of engaging in the hype cycle, journalists can demystify these tools for their audiences by sticking to basic reporting principles: investigate the artificial intelligence models themselves and cover their real-world impact. Burke will discuss […]
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GIJC23 – Investigating Social Media: Telegram, Twitter, & WhatsApp
This workshop might just emerge as the one that changes your life as a watchdog journalist. Misinformation and disinformation on “closed” social media networks — such as WhatsApp and Telegram – have already had devastating consequences for democratic processes in places like India, Nigeria, Russia, and Brazil.
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GIJC23 – How AI Can Save Small Newsrooms
Do you have too little time to do investigative stories? Try L-ai-la, the new AI research assistant, trained to find news fit to print. (You may be both lazy & forgetful, but Laila never misses a story.) Is this about GPT4? Generative AI? No, forget about it. We are talking about LHF (the LowHangingFruit AI […]
Guide Resource
Online Research Guide with Henk van Ess
Online research expert Henk van Ess has created a seven-chapter guide that offers reporters step-by-step instructions on how to use social media search to perform investigations of people and subjects and he’s also created a detailed tutorial on using facial recognition technology and best practices for putting these tools together in verifying claims online.
Chapter Guide Resource
12 Tips for Verification
Verification is all about accurately assessing claims and statements.
Chapter Guide Resource
Social Search Techniques Using LinkedIn, from Henk van Ess
Internet research expert Hank van Ess offers his tips for navigating the social media site LinkedIn from his forthcoming open source guide on online searching.
Chapter Guide Resource
Facial Recognition Made Easy
When disaster strikes, corruption occurs, or social injustice happens, facial recognition technology can expose hidden truths. The technology can, however, provide false information as well.
Guide Resource
Resources for Finding and Using Satellite Images
Satellite images are powerful tools for discovery and analysis, plus provide vivid illustrations. Discover GIJN’s favorite resources.
Chapter Guide Resource
Social Search Techniques Using Instagram
Tips for navigating the social media site Instagram from GIJN’s forthcoming guide to open source researching online.
Chapter Guide Resource
Social Search Techniques Using Twitter/X
Tips for navigating the social media site Twitter from GIJN’s forthcoming guide to open source researching online.
Chapter Guide Resource
Social Search Techniques Using LinkedIn
Tips for navigating the social media site LinkedIn from GIJN’s forthcoming open source guide on online searching.