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Reporting Tools & Tips
How to Land — and ‘Nail’ — the Accountability Interview: Tips from Recent Investigations
Officials and executives who are under intense scrutiny often dodge interviews with journalists. Here, four veteran investigative reporters share tips on how to land and ‘nail’ tough accountability interviews, based on experiences from their recent investigative projects.
Data Journalism
Data Journalism Top 10: Shark Attack!, City Cool Spots, Illegal Mines, Extreme Weather, Summer Vacation
Our weekly NodeXL and human curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter features an investigation into the illegal mining industry in the Amazon, an exposé about sanctioned oligarchs in the UK, a report on links between human-caused climate change and extreme weather events, and the frequency of shark attacks.
News & Analysis
Award-Winning African Journalists Discuss Their Investigative Reporting Challenges
Investigative journalists work tirelessly to get the truth and ensure that the public is informed on topics that are of public interest. Jamlab interviewed nine African investigative journalists to talk about their experiences of reporting in their respective countries.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Understanding the Impact of Journalism Inside Authoritarian Regimes
Conditions for journalists in authoritarian countries are challenging and often dangerous. In light of these challenges, journalists and donors need to widen their understanding of the less traditional ways journalism generates impact.
Data Journalism Reporting Tools & Tips
Supercharge your Environmental Investigative Stories with Data and Visuals
At the Pulitzer Center’s recent environmental investigative conference, Interconnected: Reporting the Climate Crisis, a panel of environmental reporters and designers explained how data and visualization can make environmental stories compelling.
Data Journalism Research
Data Journalism Top 10: Vehicle Data Privacy, Formula One History, India’s Extrajudicial Killings, Losing Your Cool
This week’s Data Journalism Top 10 features a dive into the murky market for vehicle data, an analysis of the deteriorating quality of education in poorer countries, a piece on how higher temperatures affect our lives, and fact-checking India’s encounter killings.
News & Analysis
Abraji: 20 Years Fighting for Investigative Journalists and Journalism in Brazil
Since its inception 20 years ago, the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) has remained faithful to its founding principles: professional training, defense of freedom of expression, and the right of access to public information.
Case Studies Reporting Tools & Tips
9 Watchdog Reporters and Lessons Learned from Their Mistakes
GIJN asked a diverse group of nine investigative reporters to share a memorable misstep they’ve made in an investigative project, and a key lesson learned from the mistake.
Methodology
Journalists Lift the Lid Off Abortion Issues in Germany and Worldwide
In 2021, nonprofit journalism site CORRECTIV.Lokal set out to investigate the impact of restricted access to abortion on the health and well-being of pregnant people in Germany. As the recent US Supreme Court ruling shows, ongoing changes to abortion rights and legislation affect millions of people around the world and make this a crucial topic for investigative journalists.
GIJN Webinar: How Journalists Investigated the Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
The controversial killing of Shireen Abu Akleh has drawn global media attention and sparked a number of in-depth inquiries by the news media. Two of the most comprehensive investigations were done by Bellingcat and the Washington Post – and members from both teams will be joining this GIJN webinar.
Data Journalism
Data Journalism Top 10: Kids’ Fashion Stereotypes, Economic Sandwich Index, Immigration Profits, and Florence Nightingale’s Graphics
Children’s fashion is riddled with gender stereotypes, according to an analysis by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, which found that popular children’s clothing tended to be more revealing for girls, but comfortable and functional for boys. Also this week, analysis of the big earners in the healthcare industry, the tracking of post-pandemic recovery through sandwich sales, and Florence Nightingale’s contribution to graphic storytelling.
Member Profiles
Jordan’s 7iber: From Citizen’s Blog to Watchdog Journalism
One of the newest members of GIJN, the Jordanian investigative site 7iber, began as a blog in 2007 but has since matured into an online magazine bravely covering issues in a hostile press environment.
Research
Investigating Ties Between the US Deportation Industry and Sports Travel
Private air charter companies used to transport collegiate and professional sports teams are also part of a vast network of US deportation flights tied to possible human rights abuses.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Tips for Investigating Football and the World Cup in Qatar
In this review of a recent GIJN webinar on investigating professional football, two senior journalists and a whistleblower discuss advice and tips for covering possible corruption and labor abuses tied to the upcoming 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Case Studies Reporting Tools & Tips
Aftenposten’s Housing Scandal Series Shook Norwegian Politics to Its Core
Aftenposten’s blockbuster investigative series uncovered widespread misconduct and tax evasion among Norway’s leading politicians, and was recognized with SKUP’s top award for investigative reporting.
Data Journalism
Data Journalism Top 10: Sweltering Cities, Digital Inequity, Climate & Sleep, COVID & Schools
As parts of the world endure record-breaking temperatures, a highlight from the world of data journalism this week involves an analysis of how “heat islands” in Canadian cities vary based on economic strata. Our weekly Top Ten in Data Journalism also looks at the global spread of Pegasus spyware, digital inequity in the US, and how the COVID-19 pandemic affects school children in Latin America.
Data Journalism Reporting Tools & Tips
5 Things Journalists Need to Know About Statistical Significance
This tipsheet helps journalists avoid some of the most common errors related to statistcal significance in academic studies, which even trained researchers sometimes make.
Methodology Reporting Tools & Tips
Q & A: Investigating TikTok Content Across the Russia-Ukraine Border
To investigate what the Russian invasion looked like to TikTok users in Russia and Ukraine, and how the content available differed from one side of the border to the other, a team of journalists from the Norwegian broadcasting company NRK set out to investigate the social networking site’s algorithms and how a user’s location provides differing digital narratives about the war.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
‘Picking Up Pens was a Revolutionary Act’: Telling the Stories of Marginalized, Rural Women in India
Meera Jatav, the co-founder of the award-winning, grassroots feminist media organization Khabar Lahariya, has won admiration for her courageous investigations into gender-based violence and caste in India. Here is the keynote speech she delivered at the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s summer conference in London.
Data Journalism
Data Journalism Top 10: Uber Files, A New Notre-Dame, Saudi Sportswashing, Boris Johnson’s Legacy
The Uber Files leak contains reams of data and documents that detail the inner workings of the ride-hailing company, and has led to a global investigation into the firm’s practices. Also in this week’s edition of the top 10 stories in data journalism, we look at the dubious legacy of the UK’s scandal-hit leader Boris Johnson, the reconstruction of Notre-Dame cathedral, and the widespread epidemic of US gun violence.
Methodology News & Analysis
5 Takeaways from an Award-Winning Interactive Exposé of a Miami Condo Collapse
The Miami Herald’s award-winning House of Cards investigation of the Champlain Towers South collapse used a dynamic, multimedia scrollytelling format to take readers inside the causes of a deadly construction tragedy.
Climate
GIJN’s Guide to Investigating Sea Level Rise
For journalists, explaining the causes and consequences of rising sea levels is a critical and challenging assignment. To address this aspect of the climate crisis, GIJN is publishing an extensive guide to support journalists covering the impact of rising seas around the world.
Case Studies Press Freedom
How Exiled Journalists Are Investigating in the Arab Gulf States
Intrepid journalists are still conducting investigations on countries within the Arab Gulf region, but due to political repression and other press freedom issues, they’ve had to report from afar or build and operate their independent media sites while in exile.
Data Journalism
Data Journalism Top 10: Russian Propaganda, India’s Cyber Mercenaries, Australian Flooding
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism digs into noise pollution in megacities, the trade in stolen Ukrainian grain, Russian state propaganda about its invasion, abortion access in the United States, and devastating floods in Australia.
GIJN Webinar: Investigating the World Cup
In this GIJN webinar, we bring together two senior journalists and a writer with broad experience in digging into football’s questionable practices. They will offer tips and resources for investigating sports organizations, following the money on football, and where the stories will be on the World Cup and Qatar this year.