Also highlighting the education levels of Peru’s election candidates, tracking a Russian sanctioned vessel’s journey around west Africa, and why Premier League soccer clubs are releasing more jerseys.
Watch Duty is a NGO nonprofit and its data is sourced from all over: radio scanners, cameras, satellites, and other public sources, including the agencies actually fighting the fires.
In this round-up of recent GIJN Academy masterclasses, we share expert insights across a range of key topics: food insecurity, corruption, leaks, online scams, and historical archives.
What began as the niche practice of verifying shaky mobile phone footage in an era of social media chaos has since become one of the most consequential developments in modern journalism.
Using both public info and business listings on Google, reporters can mine georeferenced data to examine potential public health harms and socioeconomic disparities of communities.
Marthe Akissi Kra’s reporting translates complex scientific and ecological data into accessible stories, connecting global environmental issues to her local listeners.
In this round-up of recent GIJN Academy masterclass videos, we look at investigating AI use by governments, identifying AI-manipulated imagery, and deconstructing popular narratives about the technology.
Also highlighting overcrowding in ICE detention facilities, foreign-owned natural resources in Argentina, and mapping the journeys in classic novels.
In conflict zones, access is rarely secured through official accreditation alone. It is negotiated through local trust, personal relationships, and an understanding of community dynamics.
In this round-up of recent GIJN Academy masterclasses on data journalism, we share practical videos on data reporting basics, using spreadsheets, and incorporating satellite imagery.
From Colombia to Nigeria, outlets are finding new audiences by adapting watchdog reporting to create digital games.
With just 12 weeks left until IJ WEEK, GIJN is offering a sneak preview of some of the event’s more than 100 speakers as well as the expert panels and networking sessions.
The most important thing to learn if you wish to integrate elements of OSINT into your investigative practice is the overall mindset behind the approach.
This small Lithuanian outlet Siena punches above its weight by publishing agenda-setting stories — but the founders say they also never want to take themselves too seriously.
A step-by-step guide to using Aleph Pro, the latest iteration of OCCRP’s data platform, offering access to a massive trove of property and financial documents, as well as other records.
Investigative outlet Direkt36’s high-risk exposé of the Fidesz party’s secret operation to bring down the opposition party helped unseat Orbán after 16 years of illiberal rule and media capture.
This latest Top 10 in Data Journalism column also highlights rising drug-related deaths in Berlin, heatwave fatalities in Europe, and Hong Kong’s rapidly aging population.
In investigative journalism, many newsrooms have begun implementing an “impact strategy.” How can they do better and what is the goal?
One often overlooked approach for accountability reporting involves side-by-side comparisons between successful and failing institutions with near-identical resources.
Recently, more than 400 people gathered in the Indian city of Bengaluru for VizChitra 2026, a conference on data visualization and storytelling — but that is only a small part of the story.
Launched with just a €5,000 loan in 2010 by three journalists in their twenties, this scrappy investigative outlet now plays an outsized role in setting the national news agenda.
How investigative and data journalists covered the world’s most popular sports event, from FIFA to footwear.
The journalist explains how he has built a career around long-form investigations, and delves into the process behind his recent book exposing the far-right in Portugal.
Also highlighting the civilian casualties of the first 40 days of the US-Iran war, why carbon capture won’t solve climate change, and the 370,000-plus prisoners still awaiting trial in India.
In a session on editing investigative podcasts at IRE26, veteran audio journalists offered several key lessons for producers and reporters new to investigative podcasts.
The investigative outlet focusing on the Black Sea region and Turkey is not quite exiled media, not quite traditional newsroom, but a collaborative group focused on abuses of power.
We have rounded up the podcasts that go behind the scenes of major exposés, in which reporters dive into how they did their investigations or offer tips for journalists in similar fields.
New York Times climate and environmental graphics reporter Mira Rojanasakul discusses how her team visualized the sea level rise threat from the melting Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.
