Reporting Tools & Tips Research
Seven Deadly Sins of Bad Open Source Research
Three experts dig into common open source errors that they’ve encountered to help other online investigators improve the quality of their work.
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Climate News & Analysis
Investigation Reveals Global Fisheries Are Worse Off — and Many Have Already Collapsed
In this story, an academic researcher recounts his team’s investigation, published in the journal Science, that looked into the accuracy of models measuring the health of fisheries.
Distribution & Promotion Getting the Story Out
How Mobile Investigative Newsrooms Can Restore Citizens’ Faith in Journalism
Two members of the OCCRP — North Macedonia’s Investigative Reporting Lab and Latvia’s Re:Baltica — have set up mobile reporting outposts.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Q & A: Lessons Learned from Investigating the Wagner Group in Africa
Nigerian investigative journalist Philip Obaji Jr. discusses the threats and challenges he has faced covering the Russian mercenary outfit, the Wagner Group.
Reporting Tools & Tips Research
Exposing the Money Behind Environmental Destruction, Part II: Investigating Investors
In this installment of a Pulitzer Center series, reporters Jelter Meers and Madeleine Ngeunga reveal tactics in investigating the financial incentives fueling environmental damage.
Data Journalism Top 10
Kamala Harris’ New Donor Wave, Elon Musk’s Hard Right Turn, Cheap Drone Warfare, and a Superyacht Suddenly Sinks
This week’s Data Journalism Top 10 highlights an investigation into irregularities in the vote count during Nigeria’s 2023 elections; a timeline of tensions in the Middle East; and more.
Press Freedom Safety & Security
‘Silenced’: Brazilian Investigative Journalist Juliana Dal Piva on Facing Threats from Her Reporting
Brazilian investigative journalist Juliana Dal Piva faced personal and professional ramifications for investigating the powerful.
Sustainability
The Threat — And Possible Solutions — to Latin America’s Foreign Donor-Funded Journalism
Latin American journalists have ventured into nonprofit journalism. But finding a sustainable financing model has eluded most outlets.
How They Did It News & Analysis
How One Investigation Exposed an Alarming Threat to the US Election — And Why Others Should Dig Deeper
A blockbuster Rolling Stone investigation discovered the extent of key official posts in swing state local election systems that have been filled by conspiracy theorists.
How They Did It
Investigating Real Estate Developments: Lessons from an Award Winning Project in Mexico
The Mexican outlet N+Focus won this year’s Ortega y Gasset Award for the best multimedia project with their detailed investigation into the impact of real estate developments on local people.
Awards, Grants, & Fellowships News & Analysis
10 Investigations Named to 2024 IJ4EU Impact Award Shortlist
The annual IJ4EU Impact Award honors the best in cross-border investigative journalism in Europe. This shortlist for 2024 recognizes 10 outstanding works of collaborative reporting.
Conference Resources
7 Highlights from Germany’s Investigative Journalism Conference
Reporters debate the legal risks of investigative reporting, covering the conflict in Gaza, open source verification techniques, and investigating global warming.
Getting Started in Investigative Journalism
Tips and Resources for Students on Investigative Journalism
Featuring the advice of university professors and leading investigative reporters who also teach, here are ten tips on how to excel in the field of watchdog reporting.
Data Journalism Top 10
‘New Great Wall’ of China, Ukraine on the Offensive, Spain’s Coast Under Threat, and the Scale of Gaza Destruction
Our latest column curates some of the best data journalism from around the world, with pieces about the Olympics, gambling in South Africa, and Spanish coastlines under threat.
Legal Defense & Emergency Aid News & Analysis
How Reporters Shield Is Protecting Newsrooms from SLAPP Attacks Around the World
Clothilde Redfern, executive director of Reporters Shield, details the group’s efforts to help investigative outlets combat SLAPPs and legal harassment.
Investigative Techniques Press Freedom
Mining Social Media and Visiting Morgues to Document Police Violence in Bangladesh
“Our priority was to reveal what the government was trying to hide,” says Zyma Islam about the work of her team in the weeks that changed her country.
News & Analysis
From Mexico to South Africa, Brazil to the Philippines: GIJN’s Investigative Bookshelf
Featuring titles that address historic wrongdoing, unpack corporate secrets, and reveal misconduct that the powerful would rather remain hidden.
Data Journalism Teaching & Training
Test Your Data Visualization Skills With GIJN’s Latest Quiz
GIJN Turkish Editor and data journalism instructor Pinar Dag is back with another quiz to test your knowledge of data visualization.
Investigative Techniques Reporting Tools & Tips
Beginner’s Guide to Identifying Explosive Ordnance in Social Media Imagery
The rise of conflict imagery on social media has provided open source researchers valuable material to identify explosive ordnance.
Data Journalism Reporting Tools & Tips
Using Data Sources to Track Harmful Climate Crisis-Fueled Algal Blooms
For the SEJ’s Reporter’s Toolbox: datasets and sources useful for tracking the harmful impact of climate change-fueled algal blooms.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
The Perils Facing Investigative Journalism in Ethiopia: Media Capture, Deep Polarization, and Government Oppression
Investigative journalism in Ethiopia — Africa’s second most populous country — currently faces a series of severe challenges.
Data Journalism Top 10
Summer Olympics, Biden Steps Down — Harris Steps Up, Prisoner Swap with Russia, and Identifying Gaza’s Dead
Plus a story on Venezuela’s controversial election, an analysis of Europe’s tourist overload, and an investigation into the sketchy nature of the Amazon carbon credit market.
How They Did It Methodology
Combining Ethnography and Journalism Into an Award-Winning Investigation in Central America
Two Salvadoran investigative journalists discuss their ethnographic reporting on the impact of the drug trade on the La Moskitia Indigenous region of Central America.
Legal Defense & Emergency Aid Press Freedom
Six Key Steps to Combating Newsroom SLAPPs: Lessons Learned from Poland, the Balkans, and Beyond
Polish journalist Patrycja Maciejewicz on how SLAPPs have been used Poland, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia & Herzegovina — and how to combat them.
Reporting Tools & Tips Safety & Security
Investigative Tips for Safely Tracking Far-Right Extremist Chatter
Veteran journalists share tips on how to monitor online chatter among white supremacists and other far right extremists — and how to stay safe while doing so.
10 Questions News & Analysis
10 Questions with Mohamad Abu Shahma: Working — And Living — Inside Gaza as an Investigative Journalist
GIJN spoke with the northern Gaza-based journalist about how he has managed to survive and work as a watchdog reporter under harrowing, life-threatening conditions.
Investigative Techniques Methodology
Investigating Russia’s Proliferating Use — And Supply — Of Attack Drones Against Ukraine
A cross-border investigation into Russia’s use of drones in Ukraine includes how drones are assembled despite sanctions, and cooperation with Tehran to produce UAVs on Russian soil.
GIJC25
Global Investigative Journalism Conference Heads to Malaysia in 2025
The 2025 Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC25) will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in the fourth quarter of next year, in partnership with co-host Malaysiakini.