GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Waste, Fraud, Abuse: Covering the Environmental Crime Beat
Journalists share stories and tips from their investigations into environmental crimes, from deforestation in the Congo to the Beirut port blast.
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GIJC23 Sustainability
Tips for Building Sustainable Business Strategies
Media outlets are now more than ever looking for innovative digital strategies to reach and engage audiences as well as remain sustainable.
GIJC23
8 Tips for Upping Your Game as Investigative Editor
Great investigative editors make stories stronger, protect and motivate reporters, and make investigations more efficient.
How They Did It Reporting Tools & Tips
Behind-the-Scenes of the Washington Post’s Investigation Into a 40-Year-Old Grenadian Mystery
Jeff Leen, the head of investigations at the Post for the past 20 years, speaks about their latest podcast and how the outlet tackles in-depth stories.
Guides Tipsheet Data Journalism GIJC23
No Coding Required: A Step-by-Step Guide to Scraping Websites With Data Miner
Knowing where to look for data — and accessing it via scraping data from websites — can be a powerful force multiplier for investigative journalists.
10 Questions GIJC23
Reporting and Sharing Women’s Stories in the Face of Taliban Oppression
Working as a journalist in Afghanistan has never been harder, but it’s a chance to resist the Taliban’s oppression of women’s rights, says the founder of Zan Times.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
From Real Estate to Racehorses: Tracking Hidden Assets Around the World
When reporters know how to follow the money, hidden wealth can often be uncovered in real estate, planes, yachts, artwork, and even racehorses.
Press Freedom
Doc of the Day: 2023 Global Impunity Index Calls Out ‘Hard Path to Justice’ for Crimes Against Journalists
According to CPJ, 261 journalists have been murdered in the past 10 years, part of a broader “hard path to justice” where killings of reporters go unpunished.
How They Did It
How They Did It: Investigating Organized Crime Networks in the Amazon Rainforest
Amazon Underworld is a large-scale project that aims to reveal how organized crime now controls a critical region nearly devoid of governance.
Case Studies Reporting Tools & Tips
Collaborating to Uncover ‘Putin’s Shadow War’ in Scandinavia
A unique collaboration between four Nordic public broadcasters sought to uncover the scale of Russian covert spying operations in the region.
Data Journalism Top 10
Visualizing War in Israel and Gaza; Australia’s Indigenous Voice Vote, Aging Taiwan, Romance Novel Covers
Featuring the first-round results of Argentina’s presidential election and a closer read of Australia’s “No” vote on Indigenous recognition.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Investigating Environmental Crimes: Tips From Reporters Covering the Amazon
Two reporters whose investigative work has exposed systemic land grabbing and illegal mining in the Amazon share their tips.
How They Did It
Death Weapons: How a Reporting Team Infiltrated Online Neo-Nazi Networks
A team of investigative journalists from Germany and the US used undercover reporting, OSINT, and data analysis skills to connect online extremism with offline terror.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
‘Rewriting History’: Tips for Investigating Events Years, Decades, Or Centuries Later
Historians have always used archival documents to study what happened years, decades, or even centuries ago. But sometimes journalists are the ones digging into the past and uncovering truths that are big enough to “rewrite history.”
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Follow the Money — and Enablers — When Investigating Kleptocracies and Mafia States
Veteran journalists explained how an industry of enablers is supporting a growing group of kleptocracies and mafia states around the world, and that following the money is a great way to track them.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Introducing FBarchive: A New, Searchable Repository of Facebook Whistleblower Documents
The new, searchable database FBarchive is designed to help researchers, journalists, and policymakers better understand and investigate decisions made at Meta about some of the most influential social media platforms across the globe.
Tipsheet
Tipsheet for Investigative Journalists on War Crimes and What Is Legal in War
An accurate understanding of the applicable laws by journalists can ensure and improve credible reporting, and raise awareness of potential violations.
GIJC23 Sustainability
Crowd-Driven Journalism: Four Groundbreaking Investigative Projects Powered by Public Engagement
Communities are often considered merely our audience in journalism. But local communities can be engaged to help report impactful stories, provide tips and resources, and even boost the finances of watchdog media around the world.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Power and Control: Investigating Food Supply and Agriculture Amid Climate Change
Water depletion in Tunisia, illegal shark fishing in Asia, global seed monopolies: three environmental journalists shared lessons at GIJC23 from their investigations into food production and supply chains.
10 Questions
From Tracking Blood Diamonds to Investigating a Wrongful Murder Conviction
After being wrongfully convicted of murder, Rowe taught himself watchdog reporting while in prison, and eventually worked his way onto the BBC’s prestigious Today and Panorama programs.
GIJC23 Methodology
Tips for Better Collaborations: Smaller Newsrooms, More Vetting, and Less Ego
Collaboration has emerged as the killer app for investigative journalism in the past decade, and a panel of editors at GIJC23 shared key insights into how watchdog partnerships can thrive.
Data Journalism Top 10
Data Journalism Top 10: Israel-Hamas War, Breathing Machine Defects, Loneliness Epidemic, and Nobel Prize Winners
Featuring the New York Times’ mapping of the recent events in the Israel-Hamas war, ProPublica’s investigation into defects of a company’s breathing machines, and El País’ gender analysis of Nobel Prize winners.
Getting Started in Investigative Journalism GIJC23
Freelancing Survival Tips for Investigative Reporters
From cold-pitching to collaborating, and from promoting your work to getting top commissions, being a freelancer brings a whole series of challenges, especially for investigative journalists.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Watchdogs Against Hate: A Reporter’s Toolbox for Tracking Political Extremism
The influence of extremist groups on mainstream politics is on the rise, and journalists need tools to face this threat to healthy democracies.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips Safety & Security
Recruiting Secret Sources: Where to Find Them, and How to Keep Them Safe
German investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer – who was leaked the Panama Papers documents – explains the art of finding, using, and safeguarding sources.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Investigating Cryptocurrency: Key Questions and Tips for Reporters
Criminal activity tends to thrive where state oversight is weakest. So it’s no wonder that cryptocurrencies are the financial tool of choice for criminals around the world, which makes insightful coverage of them increasingly important for investigative journalists.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
How — And Why — Journalists Should Investigate Sports
Hands-on tips for scaling your sports investigations from three award-winning journalists who have covered doping, sexual abuse, sportswashing, and more.
GIJC23
Beyond Facial Recognition: State-of-the-Art Research Techniques
In the fast-evolving landscape of investigative journalism, knowledge of the latest tools and cutting edge techniques can help newsrooms and reporters stay ahead of the curve and tell impactful stories.