The award-winning South African investigative journalist says he spent years ‘in the wilderness’ digging into spreadsheets and paperwork to find his niche.
Our new project, GIJN Academy, will give access to journalists around the world to a wider range of training and networking opportunities, developing their skills to investigate stories of public interest.
LLMs are quietly reshaping data journalism workflows at The Hindu, helping reporters process vast document sets, write scripts and build interactive tools.
Africa Uncensored has survived legal threats, intimidation, and politically motivated attacks on its funders to become a prominent force in Kenya’s investigative journalism landscape.
The investigative reporter was writing about sexual harassment years before #MeToo. We get her take on the recent metamorphoses in the country’s information ecosystem.
A look back at a decade of changes after the Pulitzer-Prize winning exposé sent shockwaves through the offshore world, spawning criminal probes and bringing down governments.
With foreign media prohibited from reporting on the ground, the deaths of hundreds of local journalists inside Gaza has left the outside world blind to how the conflict is unfolding.
Data is woven into how journalists cover everything from local government spending to global climate change patterns, but for editors without a specialist background, it can be daunting.
British journalist and author Oliver Bullough discusses his new investigative book on global illicit finance — and how to expose money laundering’s growing influence.
Journalists have found popular right-wing podcasters hard to cover, but expert journalists at the 2026 NICAR conference shared techniques for digging into this cohort’s global influence.
Two veteran journalists and educators share their experiences running a program to teach aspiring reporters how to collaborate across borders.
GIJN sends its deepest sympathies to IRE’s board, staff, and its 5,000 members.
Our round-up also highlights India’s highly polluted Yamuna River, a flash flood in Argentina’s Bahía Blanca, and how good (or bad) humans are at identifying AI-generated music.
In the AI economy, hundreds of thousands of digital workers — or “gig workers” — from around the world are tasked with refining the answers of models like ChatGPT.
Going forward, two major commercial satellite imagery companies will apply a two-week hold on all images in the companies’ image archives.
Carlos Dada delivered the 2026 Reuters Memorial Lecture. As the leader of El Faro, he has edited and published dozens of investigations exposing corruption of governments of all colors.
At the NICAR 2026 conference, dozens of leading data journalists shared some of their favorite digital tools and databases for investigating numerous topics.
The commissioning editor of BBC’s Storyville speaks about the making of the documentary, which delves into the pro-Ukraine-war propaganda leaching into Russian schools.
Editors who have led major cross-border collaborations share best practices — and common mistakes — for leading complex investigative reporting projects.
Anna Behrend is a self-taught data journalist who has found in data-driven reporting and visualization a way to combine her academic background in science with her creative interests.
The US Environmental Protection Agency has a detailed facilities database — and environmental journalists who want to fortify their investigative skills will do well to learn how to use it.
For International Women’s Day, GIJN spoke to three reporters digging into gender-based violence, sexism, and discrimination — and how gendered power dynamics play out in real life.
Russia’s attacks on energy infrastructure, waged during the coldest winter in memory, have pushed Ukrainian journalists to their limits. But still they persevere.
The role is frequently described as a lynchpin in investigations, and the more moving parts, partners, and countries, the more vital this position becomes.
The pipeline we built turned what would have been months of traumatic manual labor into a searchable, analyzable database that allowed investigators to trace patterns, identify victims, and build cases for accountability.
GIJN announces the 31 finalists for the 2026 Sigma Awards for excellence in data journalism, which attracted a record-breaking 543 entries from 84 different countries.
Our round-up of the best in recent data journalism also highlights medical exam pass rates in Brazil, access to quality water in India, and the cost of competing in the Winter Olympics.
Transnational collaborative investigations are vital for confronting corruption and state abuse that transcends borders, while also strengthening verification and distributing the risk.
