Data Journalism
How the Hindu Is Embedding AI Into Its Data Journalism
LLMs are quietly reshaping data journalism workflows at The Hindu, helping reporters process vast document sets, write scripts and build interactive tools.
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News & Analysis
Inside an East African Investigative Newsroom That Has Defied a Decade of Pressure
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.
News & Analysis
Veteran Reporter Li Sipan on Censorship, the Great Firewall, and China’s Independent Media 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.
News & Analysis
‘True Justice is Years in the Making’: 10 Years on from the Panama Papers
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.
Safety & Security
How Israel’s Unprecedented Killing of Palestinian Journalists in Gaza Makes Accountability Reporting Almost Impossible
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 Journalism
Developing a Data State Of Mind: Key Tips for Editors
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.
News & Analysis
How Journalists Can Fight Back Against the Rising Tide of Money Laundering
British journalist and author Oliver Bullough discusses his new investigative book on global illicit finance — and how to expose money laundering’s growing influence.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Tips for Investigating Right-Wing Influencers and Podcasters
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.
Getting Started in Investigative Journalism Teaching & Training
Teaching Cross-Border Collaborations: 7 Tips for Journalism Educators
Two veteran journalists and educators share their experiences running a program to teach aspiring reporters how to collaborate across borders.
GIJN Joins IRE in Mourning Sudden Loss of IRE Executive Director Diana R. Fuentes
GIJN sends its deepest sympathies to IRE’s board, staff, and its 5,000 members.
Data Journalism Top 10
Cheap Drones Reshaping Warfare, Strait of Hormuz as Energy Chokehold, Starvation Strategy in Sudan, an Iceberg’s Final Journey
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.
How They Did It
Analyzing Job Posting Data to Investigate the African Labor Behind AGI Hype
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.
News & Analysis
Satellite Companies Restrict Journalists’ Access to Images from the Iran War
Going forward, two major commercial satellite imagery companies will apply a two-week hold on all images in the companies’ image archives.
News & Analysis
‘The Most Important Thing Journalism Can Do in a Dictatorship Is to Tell the Truth’: Q&A with El Faro’s Carlos Dada
Carlos Dada delivered the 2026 Reuters Memorial Lecture. As the leader of El Faro, he has edited and published dozens of investigations exposing corruption of governments of all colors.
GIJN Toolbox
New Tools for Geolocation, Collaboration, Illicit Finance, Deportation Data, and Bad-Actor Tracking
At the NICAR 2026 conference, dozens of leading data journalists shared some of their favorite digital tools and databases for investigating numerous topics.
Getting the Story Out News & Analysis
‘Mr Nobody Against Putin’: An Oscar-Winning Documentary’s Lesson on Undercover Reporting in Plain Sight
The commissioning editor of BBC’s Storyville speaks about the making of the documentary, which delves into the pro-Ukraine-war propaganda leaching into Russian schools.
GIJC25
11 Tips for Editors Leading Cross-Border Investigations
Editors who have led major cross-border collaborations share best practices — and common mistakes — for leading complex investigative reporting projects.
10 Questions
Confront Them With the Numbers: This Former Physicist’s Path to Investigative Data Journalism
Anna Behrend is a self-taught data journalist who has found in data-driven reporting and visualization a way to combine her academic background in science with her creative interests.
Data Journalism
EPA Facilities Database — Gateway to Environmental Investigative Reporting
The US Environmental Protection Agency has a detailed facilities database — and environmental journalists who want to fortify their investigative skills will do well to learn how to use it.
Gender News & Analysis
From Manosphere to Femicide: Investigating Misogyny and Violence Against Women
For International Women’s Day, GIJN spoke to three reporters digging into gender-based violence, sexism, and discrimination — and how gendered power dynamics play out in real life.
News & Analysis
Report and Survive: Ukraine’s Young Journalists Investigate Through the War’s Most Brutal Winter
Russia’s attacks on energy infrastructure, waged during the coldest winter in memory, have pushed Ukrainian journalists to their limits. But still they persevere.
Getting the Story Out
Managing the Collaboration: The Growing Importance of the Investigative Coordinator
The role is frequently described as a lynchpin in investigations, and the more moving parts, partners, and countries, the more vital this position becomes.
News & Analysis
The Damascus Dossier: Getting Information from 100,000 Photos Without Looking at Them
The pipeline we built turned what would have been months of traumatic manual labor into a searchable, analyzable database that allowed investigators to trace patterns, identify victims, and build cases for accountability.
Data Journalism
‘Remarkable Diversity’…‘Confronting Some of the Most Urgent Issues of Our Time’: Announcing the 2026 Sigma Awards Shortlist
GIJN announces the 31 finalists for the 2026 Sigma Awards for excellence in data journalism, which attracted a record-breaking 543 entries from 84 different countries.
Data Journalism Top 10
Four Years of Russia-Ukraine War, Sudan’s Child Soldiers on TikTok, India’s Untreated Tap Water, and Waning US Influence at the UN
Our round-up of the best in recent data journalism also highlights medical exam pass rates in Brazil, access to quality water in India, and the cost of competing in the Winter Olympics.
GIJC25
‘Collaborate or Die’: How Cross-Border Reporting Partnerships Protect Journalists and Strengthen Investigations
Transnational collaborative investigations are vital for confronting corruption and state abuse that transcends borders, while also strengthening verification and distributing the risk.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Tips for Conducting Investigations About Venezuela
GIJN spoke with three leading, award-winning investigative journalists from Venezuela about practical tips for keeping sources secure while reporting from inside and outside the country.
How They Did It
How We Investigated a Global Crypto Laundromat
Investigators explain how they found a sanctioned crypto exchange in Russia resurrected itself under a new name and continued to attract new clients and move money across borders.