Our roundup of the best in recent data journalism also highlights US-Israeli attacks on Iran using radar satellite imagery, and how residents in a Ukrainian housing block survived winter after losing power.
Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland frequently feature in the top ten of the world press freedom rankings. We spoke to investigative reporters in each country to find out why.
In this latest GIJN Toolbox, we highlight three new powerful but easy-to-use investigative tools that have been specifically developed with the needs of data and investigative journalists in mind.
From “what book is on your bedside table” to the narrative investigative titles we should read this year, these are the books people were talking about at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia.
In its 25th edition, the Reporters Without Borders assessment notes a “widespread decline” in the global state of media freedom — but notes a few encouraging signs of optimism.
From working on projects that have real world impact, to ensuring clarity on joint bylines, our recent survey shows what journalists hope for when they come together for an international investigation.
Founded in 2016, this news site was created to report on issues often ignored or suppressed in state-controlled media, including corruption, misuse of public resources, and human rights violations.
If a hypothesis is the starting point of an investigation — the provisional answer to the question “what do we think happened?” — a timeline and a source map determine the path to verify the answer.
At the NICAR26 data journalism summit, a panel of veteran data reporters shared tips on how to amplify and contextualize data-driven public interest stories with ordinary people at the short end of policy.
Traditional investigative processes often fail in places like Sudan due to the absence of functioning regulators and the perilous situation on the ground. But there are ways to overcome these challenges.
As Hungary heads into a new political era, OCCRP spoke to András Pethö, co-founder of Direkt36, an independent outlet that has published numerous exposés of alleged government corruption.
From the Minneapolis shootings to the Guthrie kidnapping, visual investigation skills are now mandatory. Here’s how to do it.
Our roundup of the best in recent data journalism also highlights the rise in child detentions under Trump, the causes of Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades, and Russia’s Arctic dominance.
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.
