News & Analysis
The Case for Free Access to FOIA-Based Public Documents Reporting
Full, unpaywalled access to public records reporting is not only good for democracy, it can increase reader trust and bolster sustainability.
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GIJC25
‘Remember to Zoom Out’: Pioneering Jordanian Editor on Keeping a Big-Picture Perspective in Your Investigations
GIJC25 speaker Lina Ejeilat co-launched 7iber as a blog in 2007 and it has grown into an award-winning investigative site covering Jordan and the Middle East.
Data Journalism Top 10
US Military’s Caribbean Buildup, Hurricane Melissa’s Devastating Impact, Exploitation of Sudanese Refugees, Europe’s Cocaine Glut
Our round-up of the best in recent data journalism also features stories on wildfire prevention blackouts in California, and how sleep deprivation affects residents in war-torn Ukraine.
How They Did It News & Analysis
Investigating How Many Migrants Lose their Lives Crossing the Rio Grande
This transnational collaborative project investigating US-Mexico border deaths won the 2025 Gabo Award, with judges praising its “investigative rigor” and “innovative approach.”
News & Analysis
Watchdog Journalism’s Future in US May Depend on Independent Reporters
Investigations by independent journalists like Pablo Torre are a clear example of the growing need for bottom-up, citizen journalism — particularly given US media industry trends.
GIJN Impact
How Digital Threats Training Has Powered Innovative Cyber Investigations Around the World
Alumni of GIJN’s four Digital Threats training courses have produced a number of exposés on online scams and political disinformation, from India to Kenya to the Philippines.
Inside GIJN
GIJN 2025 Board Election Results: Three New Members Join, Four Incumbents Re-Elected
GIJN’s member organizations re-elected four current board members whose terms expired in 2025, and also voted in three new board members.
GIJC25
‘To Do Truly Great Investigations, You Need to Uncover the Hidden Information’: Veteran Swedish Journalist on Using Large Datasets
Data editor Helena Bengtsson once asked the national statistics agency to cross-match a teachers database with another featuring court convictions. The findings led to a change in Swedish law.
Data Journalism
How Non-Coding Journalists Can Build Web Scrapers With AI — Examples and Prompts Included
With basic web knowledge, guidance, and examples, even non-coding journalists can build a scraper with large language models.
News & Analysis
2025 Double Exposure Festival: Interrogating New Fault Lines on Lethal Inequity, Human Resilience, and the Limits of Journalism
The four-day event will showcase 25 feature-length and short-form documentaries that shine new narrative light on urgent topics in North America and far beyond.
News & Analysis
Finding — and Building — Your Professional Community to Strengthen Investigative Journalism
Networking in journalism, especially investigative journalism, is not merely about establishing superficial contacts but about building a trust-based, ethical, and resilient professional community.
News & Analysis
Q & A with Liset Cruz, Reporting on US Medical Deportations
Type Investigations goes behind the scenes of a recent exposé on how hospitals are turning to medical deportations of undocumented patients in the United States.
GIJC25
‘Doing this Job Means Always Weighing the Risks’: A Kenyan Data Reporter on the Jump from Academia to Journalism
GIJC25 speaker Purity Mukami, who trained as a statistician, is one of the pioneering women reporters helping to build data journalism in East Africa.
Data Journalism Top 10
What’s Next for a Devastated Gaza, TikTok’s Addictive Algorithm, Trump Food Aid Cuts Hit the Poor, Ukraine Strikes Russian Energy
Our round-up of the best in recent data journalism also features stories on what happens next in Gaza, a wildfire in a Namibian nature reserve, and the rise of the bespoke tailoring market in India.
Getting Started in Investigative Journalism
Mentoring Under Pressure: How One Nigerian Woman Is Shaping the Next Generation of Investigative Reporters
Through her two-plus decades of mentoring young journalists, Joke Kujenya has left a legacy of fostering and strengthening investigative reporting in a difficult press climate.
Member Profiles
Uncovering Schemes Worth Billions: Inside the Belarusian Investigative Center
Since 2020, the exiled outlet’s investigations have led to approximately 90 sanction actions, proving how journalism can make a real impact on authoritarian regimes.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Tips for Investigating and Reporting on Ethno-Religious Conflicts Responsibly and Ethically
Reporters, editors, and experts who cover regions with longstanding tensions or conflict between communities share tips and best practices for reporting responsibly — and safely.
GIJC25
‘We Should Not be Avoiding the Big Stories of Our Time’: Leading Brazilian Watchdog on the Need to Investigate Big Tech and Autocracy
Natalia Viana, co-founder and executive director of Agência Pública, Latin America’s largest nonprofit newsroom, has investigated human rights and the spread of online disinformation.
Asia Focus GIJC25
‘Our Task as Journalists is to Turn on the Light’: Asian Investigative Journalism Steps Into Focus at GIJC25
The first Global Investigative Journalism Conference to be held in Asia will feature a treasure-trove of Asia-focused panels, data workshops, and networking events,
Asia Focus
‘A Global Transit Point’: Investigating Human Trafficking and People Smuggling in South Asia
Investigations from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India illuminate the routes and networks fueling human trafficking and people smuggling in, and from, the region.
Asia Focus Member Profiles
Asking Tough Questions, Publishing ‘Without Fear’: The Reporters’ Collective in India
This small yet notorious investigative outlet was formed almost by accident — but has gone on to investigate electoral issues, conflict, and the death of an Indian journalist.
10 Questions Asia Focus
Advice from a Pioneer of Investigative Journalism in the Chinese-Speaking World
The award-winning reporter and deputy CEO of Taiwan’s The Reporter says public support is the “vital force” that ensures investigative journalism continues to exist.
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.
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.