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.
Brazilian investigative journalist Juliana Dal Piva faced personal and professional ramifications for investigating the powerful.
Latin American journalists have ventured into nonprofit journalism. But finding a sustainable financing model has eluded most outlets.
A blockbuster Rolling Stone investigation discovered the extent of key official posts in swing state local election systems that have been filled by conspiracy theorists.
The Mexican outlet N+Focus won this year’s Ortega y Gasset Award for the best multimedia project with their detailed investigation into the impact of real estate developments on local people.
The annual IJ4EU Impact Award honors the best in cross-border investigative journalism in Europe. This shortlist for 2024 recognizes 10 outstanding works of collaborative reporting.
Reporters debate the legal risks of investigative reporting, covering the conflict in Gaza, open source verification techniques, and investigating global warming.
Featuring the advice of university professors and leading investigative reporters who also teach, here are ten tips on how to excel in the field of watchdog reporting.
Our latest column curates some of the best data journalism from around the world, with pieces about the Olympics, gambling in South Africa, and Spanish coastlines under threat.
Clothilde Redfern, executive director of Reporters Shield, details the group’s efforts to help investigative outlets combat SLAPPs and legal harassment.
“Our priority was to reveal what the government was trying to hide,” says Zyma Islam about the work of her team in the weeks that changed her country.
Featuring titles that address historic wrongdoing, unpack corporate secrets, and reveal misconduct that the powerful would rather remain hidden.
GIJN Turkish Editor and data journalism instructor Pinar Dag is back with another quiz to test your knowledge of data visualization.
The rise of conflict imagery on social media has provided open source researchers valuable material to identify explosive ordnance.
For the SEJ’s Reporter’s Toolbox: datasets and sources useful for tracking the harmful impact of climate change-fueled algal blooms.
Investigative journalism in Ethiopia — Africa’s second most populous country — currently faces a series of severe challenges.
Plus a story on Venezuela’s controversial election, an analysis of Europe’s tourist overload, and an investigation into the sketchy nature of the Amazon carbon credit market.
Two Salvadoran investigative journalists discuss their ethnographic reporting on the impact of the drug trade on the La Moskitia Indigenous region of Central America.
Polish journalist Patrycja Maciejewicz on how SLAPPs have been used Poland, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia & Herzegovina — and how to combat them.
Veteran journalists share tips on how to monitor online chatter among white supremacists and other far right extremists — and how to stay safe while doing so.
GIJN spoke with the northern Gaza-based journalist about how he has managed to survive and work as a watchdog reporter under harrowing, life-threatening conditions.
A cross-border investigation into Russia’s use of drones in Ukraine includes how drones are assembled despite sanctions, and cooperation with Tehran to produce UAVs on Russian soil.
The 2025 Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC25) will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in the fourth quarter of next year, in partnership with co-host Malaysiakini.
Also highlighting a deadly hostage rescue operation in Gaza, the private jet travel carbon emissions of France’s elite, and a brief history of Taiwan and China’s relationship through maps.
Nobel Prize laureate and Rappler co-founder Maria Ressa on her site’s new Communities venture and making bold moves in countering Big Tech.
GIJN talked with reporters doing the difficult work of covering the Hamas attack on Israel and its aftermath, including preparations for the October 7 assault.
GIJN spoke to Jordy Meléndez of the Latam Network for Young Journalists about how his organization trains reporters to work on collaborative investigative projects.
The funding process is similar to investigative journalism: you must write a compelling narrative that makes the reader understand the importance of your work.
