Databases Reporting Tools & Tips
New Open Source Tools and Tips to Investigate Bombing of Civilians
An innovative new database, the Open Source Munitions Portal (OSMP), identifies and shows remnants of explosive devices in conflict zones.
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Data Journalism My Favorite Tools
My Favorite Tools: Sigma Award-Winning Data Journalist Leonardo Nicoletti
The data visualization expert and former academic stresses the importance of having an ‘interdisciplinary mindset’ when approaching data-driven stories.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Struggling to Find the Right Open Source Tool? Try Bellingcat’s New Online Investigations Toolkit
The toolkit helps reporters discover tools in categories like satellite imagery, maps, and social media, and is designed to help researchers learn how to use each tool with in-depth descriptions.
Tipsheet Reporting Tools & Tips
Tipsheet for Reporters: How to Get the Best from OCCRP’s Aleph
In investigative journalism, connecting data points is often key to uncovering the truth. Aleph helps reporters search, organize, and analyze data, to better trace hidden connections.
Fundraising Sustainability
6 Things Journalism Funders Want Grant Applicants to Know
At the 2024 iMEdD International Journalism Forum, journalism funders and funding seekers discussed how to demystify the process of fundraising.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Challenges of Journalism in Exile: Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba
The exiled Nicaraguan journalist and editor Carlos F. Chamorro explains the critical need to promote and support journalists who are forced to leave their homelands because of their reporting.
Data Journalism Top 10
Tracking Hurricane Helene’s Devastation, Conflict Escalation in the Middle East, and the High Energy Costs of AI Chatbots
Also featured: the 51 men on trial for a case of shocking sexual violence in France, the wildfires raging in the Arctic, and gaming out a winning campaign for the US presidency.
Methodology News & Analysis
How to Bring Investigative Journalism into Food Lifestyle Media
Three investigations into food systems show how investigative journalists can capitalize on the huge interest in food — and food-related content — to make their reporting more impactful.
Methodology Research
How We Uncovered the True Story of 40 Acres and a Mule
Behind-the-scenes of an investigation into a program that gave formerly enslaved people in the US land titles after the Civil War — and then revoked them.
News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
How Journalism Groups in Africa Are Building AI Tools to Aid Investigations and Fact-Checking
These organizations are developing AI tools and resources that can be used to tackle misinformation, improve data reporting, and help with the storytelling process.
Climate Research
Investigating How Conflict and War Contribute to Methane Emissions
New remote sensing techniques are enabling researchers to monitor how armed conflict can be a driver of greenhouse gas emissions like methane.
GIJC25 Member Profiles
Building an Independent Newsroom That’s a ‘Pain in the Neck’ to the Powerful, Brick by Brick
Launching as a digital outlet 25 years ago gave Malaysiakini’s founders the freedom to report on stories that others feared to cover.
Inside GIJN News & Analysis
GIJN Welcomes 12 New Members, from Cameroon to Azerbaijan
New members include organizations doing crucial watchdog work in areas from deforestation to African data journalism capacity to the exploitation of child migrants.
News & Analysis
Tips for Handling the Mental Load of International Watchdog Reporting
Most reporters still rely on individual coping strategies, leaving them to face systemic challenges alone, says writer and researcher Belle de Jong.
Inside GIJN News & Analysis
GIJN Schedules 2024 Board Election
Nominations are open for three regional representatives, and for four at-large director positions on the board.
GIJC25
GIJN Launches GIJC25 Website, Announces Dates for Next Global Investigative Journalism Conference
The next Global Investigative Journalism Conference will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Data Journalism Top 10
Spotting Fake and AI Images, Explaining the US Election, Hate Speech in German Politics, and the Threat from Building Cladding Fires
Our weekly column of the best in data journalism features politics, environmental tragedies, and artificial intelligence.
10 Questions
Four Decades Digging Into Australia’s Underbelly, from Corrupt Politicians to Organized Crime
Throughout her career, the trailblazing Sydney Morning Herald investigative journalist Kate McClymont has exposed graft, bribery, and misconduct.
News & Analysis
From Investigating Syrian Drugs to Scandals Involving Children: The 2024 DIG Festival Awards Shortlist
Celebrating filmmakers who use original sources and investigative techniques to tell hidden stories, here are the shortlisted documentaries for the DIG Awards this year.
How They Did It Methodology
Investigating Gaza: How the Associated Press Documented the Families Devastated by War
Sarah El Deeb documented 60 families from the Gaza Strip who have lost 25 members or more from Israeli airstrikes during the first three months of the conflict.
How They Did It Reporting Tools & Tips
Investigating State Attacks on Exiles: Lessons from The Washington Post’s ‘Repression’s Long Arm’ Series
The international investigations team at The Washington Post is tackling the issue of transnational repression in an ongoing series called Repression’s Long Arm.
Reporting Tools & Tips Research
Seven Deadly Sins of Bad Open Source Research
Three experts dig into common open source errors that they’ve encountered to help other online investigators improve the quality of their work.
Climate News & Analysis
Investigation Reveals Global Fisheries Are Worse Off — and Many Have Already Collapsed
In this story, an academic researcher recounts his team’s investigation, published in the journal Science, that looked into the accuracy of models measuring the health of fisheries.
Distribution & Promotion Getting the Story Out
How Mobile Investigative Newsrooms Can Restore Citizens’ Faith in Journalism
Two members of the OCCRP — North Macedonia’s Investigative Reporting Lab and Latvia’s Re:Baltica — have set up mobile reporting outposts.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Q & A: Lessons Learned from Investigating the Wagner Group in Africa
Nigerian investigative journalist Philip Obaji Jr. discusses the threats and challenges he has faced covering the Russian mercenary outfit, the Wagner Group.
Reporting Tools & Tips Research
Exposing the Money Behind Environmental Destruction, Part II: Investigating Investors
In this installment of a Pulitzer Center series, reporters Jelter Meers and Madeleine Ngeunga reveal tactics in investigating the financial incentives fueling environmental damage.
Data Journalism Top 10
Kamala Harris’ New Donor Wave, Elon Musk’s Hard Right Turn, Cheap Drone Warfare, and a Superyacht Suddenly Sinks
This week’s Data Journalism Top 10 highlights an investigation into irregularities in the vote count during Nigeria’s 2023 elections; a timeline of tensions in the Middle East; and more.
Press Freedom Safety & Security
‘Silenced’: Brazilian Investigative Journalist Juliana Dal Piva on Facing Threats from Her Reporting
Brazilian investigative journalist Juliana Dal Piva faced personal and professional ramifications for investigating the powerful.