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From Kyiv to the Congo: DIG Festival Honors Top Investigative Documentaries

by Claudine Blais • June 8, 2018

When the DIG Festival first launched in 2016, it focused largely on Italian documentaries firmly anchored in quality investigative journalism. Just three years and four festivals later, it has grown into an international destination for some of the world’s best investigative documentary filmmaking. Held this year in Riccione, Italy, from June 1 to 3, the jury handed out seven awards, taking viewers from Kyiv to the Congo.

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Joris Luyendijk at #EIJC18: Investigative Journalism in the Post-Truth World

by Joris Luyendijk • June 6, 2018

Joris Luyendijk’s keynote speech at the European Investigative Journalism Conference posed an uncomfortable question for investigative journalists. Are we, in our pursuit of exposing wrongdoing, unwittingly putting ourselves at risk of becoming pawns or useful idiots for demagogues, protest parties and populists like Trump?

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#AllForJan: An Open Letter to Slovakia

by Peter W. Klein • June 1, 2018

As protests grip Slovakia in the wake of the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and harassment of his colleague Pavla Holcova, the Global Reporting Centre’s Peter W. Klein writes this open letter to the Prime Minister of Slovakia urging him to respect press freedom and the rights of Holcova and all the journalists who are doing their jobs.

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Can Civil’s Blockchain Save Journalism?

by Rowan Philp • May 14, 2018

With a $5 million funding budget, the new platform is dreamily promising a new “canvas on which journalists can paint the future of their industry.” But it isn’t clear how the blockchain-based technology will generate the cold hard cash needed to sustain the industry’s revenue-starved publications, writes Rowan Philp for GIJN.

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World Press Freedom Day — “No Democracy without Investigative Journalism”

by David E. Kaplan • May 3, 2018

At a time when the news media is under unprecedented attack, and the need for watchdog reporting has never been greater, we hope you will join GIJN today in marking World Press Freedom Day (#WorldPressFreedomDay). This is the 25th celebration of WPFD, but despite the years of meetings and proclamations by its sponsors UNESCO and others, conditions are getting worse, not better, for journalists around the world.

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Historian: Why Reporters Are Heroes of Our Time

by Timothy Snyder • April 17, 2018

The real heroes are reporters who are out there taking risks by reporting the truth, says US historian Timothy Snyder. Support them by subscribing to newspapers and reading and sharing good journalism. And next time you meet a journalist, try thanking them for their service.

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Who Maps the World?

by Sarah Holder • April 16, 2018

OpenStreetMap is the self-proclaimed Wikipedia of maps. It’s a free and open-source sketch of the globe, created by a volunteer pool that essentially crowdsources the map, tracing parts of the world that haven’t yet been logged. But despite its democratic aims, it’s still much like the mapping world overall — overwhelmingly dominated by male cartographers. That’s starting to change.

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South Africa’s Extraordinary Year: Journalists Turn the Tide Against Corruption

by Anton Harber • March 21, 2018

Every year South African investigative journalists are recognized for their hard work when the winners of the Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism are announced. This year has provided a chance to assess the highs and the lows of our investigative reporting after an extraordinary year.

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The Webcomic that Tells the Story of a Bolivian River

by Carla Hannover • March 20, 2018

The Choqueyapu River investigation was initially intended for the Bolivian newspaper, Página Siete. A three-month reporting project resulted in the publication of two 16-page newspaper specials. But the challenge was to transform it into an innovative digital story.

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Jan’s and Daphne’s Laws: How to Stop the Murder of Journalists

by Drew Sullivan • March 16, 2018

The cold-blooded murder of Slovak investigative journalist Jan Kuciak was also a cold slap across the face of modern Europe. That the public watchdogs could be halted simply by a brutal act of violence seems to portend a further breakdown of European values. Is it possible to legislate better security? There could be.

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Puerto Rico Journalists Expose Reality of Hurricane Damage

by Omar Rodríguez Ortiz • March 14, 2018

Late last year, the number of official deaths during Hurricane Maria were at a surprising low. That’s when the journalists at Puerto Rico’s Centre de Periodismo Investigativo kicked into high gear, forcing government to be more transparent and accountable.

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In Media We Trust? Reinventing Journalism for a Murky Era

by Maria Teresa Ronderos • March 13, 2018

The recently published paper, Bridging the Gap, Rebuilding Citizen Trust in Media, probably offers the most complete list of the current projects around media and trust. But those interviewed for the project viewed trust — and the way publications can gain and sustain it — differently. However, all initiatives seem to rely on two principles to optimize trust: transparency and participation.

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Scenes from Slovakia: Protesting the Murder of Journalist Ján Kuciak

by GIJN Staff • March 12, 2018

The murder of Slovakian journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancee, Martina Kušnírová, both 27, have sparked protests since the killings on February 25. On Friday, tens of thousands gathered at the Slovak National Uprising Square in Bratislava to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Robert Fico’s government and a thorough investigation of Kuciak’s death. Feature image by Tomáš Benedikovič.

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Arson Attack on Ukraine’s Rivne Investigative Center

by GIJN Staff • February 23, 2018

An arsonist attempted to burn down the Rivne Investigative Reporting Agency in western Ukraine on Thursday evening, according to staff members and associates. An unknown attacker entered the newsroom’s first floor office, doused it with a flammable liquid and set it ablaze. Fortunately, no injuries have been reported.

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Editor’s Pick: Best Investigative Stories from Latin America 2017

by Erika Lozano • February 21, 2018

From uncovering Big Pharma’s influence on healthcare to investigating child rape in El Salvador or documenting Mexican families tracking their “disappeared” loved ones, Latin American muckrakers had a busy year in 2017.

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Credibility Is the New Currency. And that’s Good for Independent Media

by James Breiner • February 12, 2018

Communications lecturer and former Columbus Dispatch business journalist James Breiner on how credibility works to the advantage of independent media.

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Editor’s Pick: Top Investigative Journalism in Arabic 2017

by Majdolin Hasan • February 7, 2018

The Middle East is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be an investigative journalist. Which makes this list of top stories from 2017 by GIJN’s Arabic editor, Majdoleen Hassan, that much more impressive.

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Editor’s Pick: Best Investigative Stories from the Former Soviet Union 2017

by Olga Simanovych • January 31, 2018

From laundromats to propaganda factories, GIJN’s Russian-language editor, Olga Simanovych, rounds up some of the most outstanding investigations out of the Former Soviet Union countries in 2017.

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The Global Backlash Against NGOs (and How To Fight Back)

by Joshua Kucera • January 29, 2018

Authoritarian governments have cleverly used the liberal norm of transparency in order to shut down liberal groups in their countries, according to a new report “Distract, Divide, Detach: Using Transparency and Accountability to Justify Regulation of Civil Society Organizations.”

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Why Journalists Need to Think Like Designers

by Catherine D'Ignazio • January 24, 2018

Emerson College’s Catherine D’Ignazio says defining story “problem” — that is how to tell it and on what platform — from a systems perspective can help journalists and news organizations understand their role within those systems and what form their intervention might take.

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10 Acts of Artistic Rebellion

by Sara Whyatt • January 22, 2018

Graffitied pigs, a viola player, a painting of a war zone, underground music, a president as a clown. These are just some of the subversive art works that in the last year have resulted in artists’ imprisonment, prosecution, bans and threats.

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State Censorship: The Other Travel Ban

by David Kaye • January 18, 2018

Governments have arsenals of weapons to censor information. The worst are well-known: detention, torture, extra-judicial killing or surveillance. Another form of censorship gets limited attention, a kind of quiet repression: the travel ban.

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Guns, Politics and Media: A Look at Czech Investigative Journalism

by Pavla Holcova • January 10, 2018

After the 2008 economic crisis, western media companies sold their interests in the Czech Republic’s biggest media houses, radio stations and newspapers to Czech and Slovak billionaires. But the concentration of media in the hands of a few powerful owners has had an unexpected, positive impact. It has led to the emergence of smaller, independent investigative journalism sites, as well as new initiatives to fund them.

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Editor’s Pick: The Best Investigative Stories from China 2017

by GIJN Staff • January 4, 2018

It’s been a year since “post-truth” was chosen as Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries, but the sentiment still resonates. In China, we’ve encountered shifting public opinion, fake news and heavy censorship, but we also saw stories that remind us there are journalists who never give up the pursuit of truth. Here’s a selection of China’s best investigative stories from 2017 — from child abuse to misconduct by major companies — curated by GIJN’s Chinese team.

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2017’s Award Winning Global Journalism

by Amina Boubia • December 28, 2017

Drawn from a selection of 15 global and regional journalism awards, this list of best reads from 2017 is an inspiring selection of storytelling, investigative techniques, collaborative enterprises and fearless reporting against all odds.

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Iraqi Muckraking: Investigative Journalism in One of the World’s Most Dangerous Countries

by Nouha Belaid • December 20, 2017

A study by Iraqi professor Dr Bushra Al-Hamdani found that journalists in Iraq are often targeted by either pro-government militias or militant opposition groups and have little protection against threats. They also face legal obstacles and a lack of government transparency.

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Investigative Journalism Awards to Apply For Now!

by GIJN Staff • December 13, 2017

Worked hard to produce investigative projects this past year? Consider submitting your story for these prominent journalism awards, which are listed below and ordered by the nearest deadline. But hurry, some deadlines are coming soon!

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ARIJ Awards Top Investigative Journalists in Mideast, North Africa

by ARIJ • December 6, 2017

Journalists from Egypt, Yemen and Jordan who exposed human rights abuse and state-run mass surveillance took top prizes for the best investigations in print, film and multimedia in 2017 at the 10th Forum for Arab Investigative Journalists this weekend.

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