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GIJN’s Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters
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This guide was written by GIJN staff reporter Rowan Philp and edited by Nikolia Apostolou, Reed Richardson, and Laura Dixon. Illustrations are by Marcelle Louw.
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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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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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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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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: 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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Webinar: How to Investigate Elections
In this GIJN webinar, we bring together five senior journalists with experience in investigating electoral processes.
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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.