Inside GIJN News & Analysis
2025 Candidates for GIJN’s Board of Directors
This October, GIJN member representatives will vote to elect three regional representatives and four at-large directors for the 15-person Board of Directors.
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Asia Focus
Data Journalism in Asia: Rethinking the Relationships Between Newsrooms, Communities, and Evidence
Data storytelling newsrooms have found innovative approaches to navigate closed data regimes, political pressures, and resource gaps.
Asia Focus
How Newsrooms are Uncovering Asia’s Climate and Environmental Crises, from Illegal Sand Mining to Sinking Cities
Outlets across the region are collaborating to investigate the environmental harms that cross borders.
10 Questions Asia Focus
‘Impact is Often Subliminal’: A Nepali Journalism Veteran on the Highs — and Lows — of His Reporting Career
Kunda Dixit speaks to GIJN about the challenges he has faced in a storied career in investigative reporting, from going into exile to reporting in the face of legal attacks.
Asia Focus
State-Connected Oligarchs and Looted Public Funds: Tracking Illicit Money Across Asia
In this installment of GIJN’s Asia Focus project, we look at how investigative journalists across the continent are exposing kleptocracy and documenting official corruption.
Asia Focus
Investigative Journalism in Asia: Resistance, Transformation, and Solidarity Amidst Mounting Press Challenges
Asia serves as a unique laboratory in the global media landscape but journalists here face multiple challenges: censorship, threats, surveillance, and financial pressures.
Data Journalism Top 10
Data Centers’ Impact on Utility Prices, UK’s Far-Right Online, Fatal Consequences of USAID Cuts, Drone Strikes on Kyiv
Our round-up of the best in recent data journalism also features stories about fuel smuggling in Mexico, poverty in Nigeria, and typhoons in Hong Kong.
News & Analysis
Nora Gámez Torres, Cuban Journalist in Florida, Wins Maria Moors Cabot Prize
The award-winning reporter was described by the jury as “the most authoritative voice on the island nation in the US media.”
GIJC25 News & Analysis
GIJN Bookshelf: The Malaysia Edit
Headed to GIJC25 in Kuala Lumpur later this year? Here are a dozen books about Malaysia to read before your trip.
10 Questions
‘Obsession Is What Investigative Journalism Is Really About’: 10 Questions with Doğu Eroğlu
The investigative journalist — who has covered topics from ISIS to troll armies — talks to GIJN about his novel reporting methods and keeping investigative journalism alive in Turkey.
GIJC25
‘I’m Not Interested in Giving Readers Easy Answers’: Tracing Current Indigenous Inequities to Systemic Injustices
Tristan Ahtone is an award-winning journalist that has demonstrated the power of using historical archives to expose systemic injustices imposed on Indigenous communities.
Data Journalism
Rewriting the Rules of Digital Verification: How African Investigative Journalists Are Building New Data Models
The global nonprofit WITNESS seeks to address one of the biggest data gaps in the digital verification landscape: the dependence on tools-based methods that lack local knowledge.
Member Profiles News & Analysis
Seeking the Truth, in the Midst of a Country in Crisis: Haiti’s AyiboPost
Being a journalist in Haiti means not only witnessing daily violence but also being a potential target, one news outlet remains a home for those who refuse to stop reporting.
Case Studies Methodology
Uncovering the Hidden Environmental and Human Costs of Laos’ Banana and Durian Boom
As part of its Ground Truths collaborative project, a group of Pulitzer Center-sponsored journalists uncovered how foreign agribusiness companies are impacting Laos.
GIJC25
GIJC25 Program Launches — Two Nobel Laureates and African War Crimes Expert Are Featured Speakers
Journalism pioneer Maria Ressa, famed economist Joseph Stiglitz, and UN Rwanda Tribunal prosecutor Charles Adeogun-Phillips headline the top experts on the conference’s program.
‘Journalists Face Criminalization for Their Reporting’: A Tunisian Media Entrepreneur Reflects on the Power of Tools and Lab Testing
Inkyfada’s Malek Khadhraoui believes in using the power of collaboration and innovation to work around repressive regimes and a systemic lack of access to information.
Data Journalism Top 10
Afghanistan’s Deadly Earthquakes, West Bank Settler Violence, Mississippi’s Prison Homicides, Chile’s Data Center Boom
Our round-up of the best in recent data journalism also features stories on Russia’s military equipment losses, Pacific deep-sea mining, and Paralympic swimming.
News & Analysis
Investigating a Scandal in the Publishing World: Q & A with Chloe Hadjimatheou
“The Salt Path” was a bestselling memoir, but after a tipoff, this reporter wondered if everything was quite as it seemed.
GIJC25
More Than 300 Media Experts from Around the World to Speak at GIJC25
GIJC25 will feature an esteemed line-up of journalism veterans, data gurus, and subject matter experts from nearly 100 countries.
Inside GIJN
GIJN Schedules 2025 Board Election
Nominations are now open for three regional representatives, and for four at-large director positions on the organization’s board.
GIJC25
‘Journalism in Exile Has Been Somewhat Romanticized’: The Challenges of Being Forced to Investigate from Afar
Joseph Poliszuk — co-founder of Venezuela’s Armando.info — has spent years investigating illegal mining and drug trafficking. He speaks to GIJN ahead of his appearance at GIJC25 in Malaysia.
How They Did It
Connecting Brazil’s Financial Market to Environmental Violations: The Hidden Impacts of Agribusiness on Indigenous Lands
Investment funds issued to finance Brazil’s agribusiness sector bundle various bonds — some of them labeled “green” — but are tied to socio-environmental violations or potential land grabbing.
News & Analysis
Why Two Kenyan Journalists Launched a Startup to Change Global Health Storytelling
Verah Okeyo and Anne Mawathe were frustrated with newsroom constraints and envisioned producing deeply reported stories that communities and policymakers could not ignore.
GIJC25 Program Sneak Peek — Can’t Miss Expert Panels and Workshops
With 15 different conference tracks and more than 150 planned sessions and workshops, GIJC25 will feature a wealth of esteemed journalists, data gurus, and subject matter experts.
How They Did It
How ProPublica Exposed a Flawed AI Tool ‘Munching’ Hundreds of Veteran Contracts
The team used leaked documents and an interview with the AI tool’s developer to reveal numerous mistakes behind the Trump administration’s cost-cutting measures of veterans’ care.
GIJC25
‘Every Reporter has an AI Story to Tell’: Tips from an Award-Winning Journalist on the Risks of AI
Karen Hao — one of the world’s leading voices on the impacts and potential harms of artificial intelligence — speaks to GIJN ahead of her appearance at GIJC25 in Malaysia.
Data Journalism Top 10
Where Plane Crash Survivors Sit, African Labor Fueling AI Hype, DOGE Guts US Health Agency, Syria’s Most Feared Prison
Our latest round-up of the best in data journalism also features stories on Xi Jinping’s military purge and climate change-fueled flooding in Pakistan.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Tips for Researching Massive Water Consumption by Data Centers
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee offer insights into sources and techniques for investigating water usage by major tech companies’ data centers.