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Lessons Learned Over Four Decades as an Investigative Journalist In India
One of India’s most renowned investigative reporters, Sarin has reported and edited stories digging into security, corruption, and money laundering.
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News & Analysis
How to Run a Mission-based Organization: Lessons for Newsrooms from Doctors Without Borders
Investigative newsrooms and humanitarian organizations have a number of things in common, often because they are motivated by a desire to contribute to a broader social mission.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Lethal Firing Orders at Protests, Besieged Bawm Community, an Island Habitat in Peril: 2025’s Top Investigative Stories from Bangladesh
Also featuring in-depth looks at the country’s expansive surveillance state infrastructure, a generation of disappearances, and one company’s massive riverside land grab.
How They Did It
Tracing Lead Pollution in Nigeria to the Global Auto Supply Chain
Investigative reporters traced dangerously high lead contamination in Nigeria — revealing that recycled metal from used car batteries entered global supply chains linked to major US automakers.
GIJC25
Exposing Forced Labor and Human Trafficking in the World’s Oceans
Reporters exposing exploitation in the high seas use a combination of open source satellite imagery to track ships and documents to establish vessel ownership.
Sustainability
Growing a Small Nonprofit Can Be a Bit Like Adolescence — Painful, Difficult, Awkward
The authors, senior leaders at the Global Reporting Centre, write about the difficulties in changing from a fledgling start-up to a robust organization that is ‘set up to succeed.’
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Deadly Gaza Aid Sites, Damascus Dossier, Exploiting Sudanese Refugees: 2025’s Best Investigative Stories from the Middle East and North Africa
Also featuring exposés on sex-trafficking of workers in Dubai, secret mass deportations of Tunisians from the EU, and unlicensed addiction treatment centers in Egypt.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Digital Scam Trails, Deadly Hospital Infections, Harrowing Immigration Journeys: 2025’s Best Investigative Stories from India
Also featuring deep dives into rampant worker injuries in automobile factories, health hazards from imported scrap tires, and the politicization of the national archaeological survey.
From the Pitch Stage to the Write Up, the Line Edit to Publication: How Editors Can Help Investigative Stories
An editor can play a pivotal role in making or breaking a story’s impact. From narrowing complex stories to ensuring accuracy, great editing turns strong reporting into powerful journalism.
Editor's Picks
GIJN’s 10 Must-Read Stories of 2025
GIJN’s top stories from the past year, including cutting-edge reporting tools and techniques, in-person conference presentations, and analysis of the state of the IJ community.
Data Journalism Top 10 Editor's Picks
Editor’s Pick: Best of Data Journalism from 2025
Our roundup of standout data journalism from the past year highlights projects that delve into conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine, and Africa, that explore the rise of AI, and interrogate global trade wars.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Gold Mining Disasters, Lost Refugee Boats, AI-Powered Protest Crackdowns: Best Investigative Stories from Turkey in 2025
Investigative journalism in the country has shown remarkable resilience, depth, and impact despite operating under difficult conditions.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
GIJN Resource Center’s Top Guides for 2025
Highlights this year have included guides to investigating landfill emissions, detecting AI content online, digging into caste discrimination, and material to help reporters investigate possible war crimes.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
Clandestine Airstrips, a Mexican Mega Leak, and a Crisis of Unidentified Missing People: 2025’s Best Investigative Stories in Spanish
The investigative stories produced in the Spanish-speaking world this year show a vibrant journalistic landscape, despite the many challenges reporters now face in many places.
Editor's Picks Reporting Tools & Tips
GIJN’s Top Investigative Tools of 2025
In a year that kleptocracy and attacks on independent media spiked, investigative reporters harnessed a mix of new databases and innovative tools to hold bad actors accountable.
GIJC25
Muckraking the Past: Using Archives to Seek Accountability
Archives are a powerful way to expose historical abuses — from war crimes to broken government promises — by preserving fragile evidence and turning it into a verifiable, searchable record.
GIJC25
Exposing Private Money Fueling the Climate Crisis
At this GIJC25 session, veteran environmental reporters offered strategies for unmasking the hidden owners, banks, politicians, and regulators quietly fueling climate change.
Reporting Tools & Tips
‘Too Close to Home’: Handling the Challenges of Investigations with a Personal Connection
Watchdog reporters at AIJC offered tips for navigating the professional, emotional, and ethical complications of reporting stories that intersect with your personal life.
GIJC25
Investigating the Criminal Schemes That Drive Online Gambling
An expert panel at GIJC25 described the multi-layered criminal infrastructures behind online gambling, and offered practical tactics to help reporters expose those networks.
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What Every Fixer Should Know Before Supporting an Investigative Reporting Assignment
Local producers are key figures vital to the success of many overseas investigations. Here are best practices for fixers when working with foreign reporters.
Data Journalism Top 10
Hong Kong’s Deadly Fire, Tuna Fishing’s Labor Abuses, AI Deepfakes Target Ukraine Press, China’s ‘Shadow’ Fleet Preps for Invasion
Our round-up of the best in recent data journalism also highlights deepfakes targeting Ukrainian journalists, Europe’s sprawling landfills, and how Peru’s youth are locked away in prisons.
GIJC25
Tips and Advice for Investigating the Stories that Impact the LGBTQ+ Community
Rising political backlash and harmful policies threaten queer lives. Covering systemic failures that affect LGBTQ+ people requires rigorous, sensitive reporting.
GIJC25
New Approaches for Investigating Environmental Crimes in the Ocean
At GIJC25, veteran journalists from Indonesia, Norway, and Colombia shared practical, replicable strategies for uncovering illegal fishing and maritime wildlife trafficking at sea.
GIJC25
Building and Nurturing Communities That Value and Pay for Investigative Journalism
From combining investigative stories with theater events to livestreaming editorial meetings, these newsrooms have adapted to dwindling revenue streams in novel ways.
GIJC25
The Scam Supply Chain: How to Uncover Transnational Fraud Operations
Scams now function as sprawling transnational criminal enterprises. But journalists can expose these networks by following inconsistencies, mapping operations, and collaborating across borders.
GIJC25 Reporting Tools & Tips
How to Investigate Pharmaceutical Oligopolies
At GIJC25, Peruvian investigative journalist Fabiola Torres showed reporters how to uncover the systems behind pharma monopolies, and how to connect market structures to human impact.
GIJC25
The Business of Faith: How to Investigate Cults and Religious Groups
Tackling religion stories can require creative ways to overcome lack of access, and how to seek help during difficult times.
GIJC25 Reporting Tools & Tips
Chasing Oligarchs Across Borders
Journalists detailed how they build dossiers on oligarchs, mine corporate and sanctions databases, and use leaks – all while managing legal and security risks.