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The Rise of African Environmental Investigative Journalism
Investigative journalism of environmental issues has grown substantially in recent years in Africa, thanks to a number of new initiatives and reporting projects.
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Forced Out: Latin America’s Investigative Reporters Pushed into Exile
A press freedom crisis is rippling across Latin America and in some places the technological, legal, and physical threats have grown so severe that investigative journalists feel compelled to flee their home countries to keep reporting.
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Investigating the Suspicious Death of Ukrainian Immigrant Dmytro Nikiforenko in Police Custody
This investigation into the suspicious death of a Ukrainian immigrant while in police custody won Gazeta Wyborcza reporter Jacek Harłukowicz Poland’s top prize for journalism in 2021.
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2022 DIG Festival Awards: Projects on Private Militaries, Assassination, and a Dictatorship’s End
From a one-hour French documentary about the Russian Wagner group of mercenary fighters to a short film about the final, desperate phone calls of a Tunisian president facing an uprising, many of the winning entries from this year’s DIG festival focus on exposing stories about the powerful and what happens behind closed doors.
News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
10 Things You Should Know About AI in Journalism
Mattia Peretti, manager of JournalismAI at the London School of Economics, discusses the 10 things reporters should know about how artificial intelligence can impact journalism.
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Investigating Immigration: Q&A with Caitlin Dickerson
In an interview, The Atlantic’s investigative reporter Caitlin Dickerson discusses tips and techniques for covering the immigration beat, from knowing the history to setting expectations.
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5 Must-See Films About Investigative Journalism from 2022
A range of films released in 2022, which include documentaries and feature adaptations of landmark investigations, provide insight into the diligent and often dangerous work of investigative reporters.
Case Studies News & Analysis
Investigating Oil Spills and Corporate Impunity in the Amazon
An interview with Alexa Vélez, managing editor of Mongabay Latam and the lead coordinator of the Stained by Oil investigative series on oil spills and corporate impunity in the Amazon region.
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Why Journalists Must Hold Each Other Accountable to Protect Democracy
Veteran journalist Anton Harber speaks about the state of journalism and press freedom in South Africa as well as the importance of holding the media accountable for its complicity in abetting state capture.
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How a Purported Fact-Checking Site Spreads Russian Propaganda
A website and Telegram channel operated from Russia falsely claims to be a fact-checking site and, in fact, is repeatedly pushing out Russian disinformation about the war.
News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
Q & A: How a Reporter Uncovered the US Military Burn Pits Scandal
The reporter who first broke open the US military burn pits scandal and its hazardous environmental impact on veterans discusses how she reported the story and tracked its evolution to the halls of the US Congress.
Case Studies News & Analysis
How Two Forensic Teams Investigated the Killing of Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
In our latest GIJN webinar, members of forensic investigation teams from Bellingcat and The Washington Post explained how they analyzed the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot in the West Bank city of Jenin in May.
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Marcela Turati on a Career Spent Investigating Mexico’s Crisis of Missing People
Journalist Marcela Turati has spent years investigating who is responsible for the thousands of people who have gone missing in Mexico. She spoke to Revista 5W magazine about her work, the dangers of investigating corruption in the country, and why it is so difficult to try and track down who is behind violent crimes against journalists and migrants.
Case Studies News & Analysis
The Challenges Facing Student Investigative Journalists: Censorship, Legal Intimidation, Lack of Funding, and Even Violent Physical Attacks
While there are plenty of examples of student investigative reporters who are supported by their institutions, there are many others who face a lack of cooperation, low pay, legal threats, funding issues, and even physical harm.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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Who Was Behind the Killing of Sri Lankan Journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge?
The renowned Sri Lankan journalist was driving to his office when motorcycle riders stopped his car and bludgeoned him to death in broad daylight on the streets of Colombo in 2009. Now, a former detective who ran an official probe into the attack has given new testimony, raising questions about who may have been complicit in the killing.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Data Journalism Top 10: Abortion Ban Burdens, China Surveillance, Heat Wave Threats, and Russia’s Degraded Army
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism looks at the impact of the Dobbs US Supreme Court ruling on travel time for women seeking an abortion in the US, China’s intensifying surveillance on its population, the impact of heat waves on fragile populations in Germany, the state of the Russian army after four months of war, and the gender inequity in speeches in the Zurich Parliament.
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Tracking Environmental Crimes During the War in Ukraine
Amid Ukraine’s whole-of-society wartime reorganization, experts and activists are using their skills to track the impact of the conflict on the country’s national parks and biospheres and to document possible environmental war crimes.
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Gina Chua on How to Reach Underserved Communities: Journalism For – Not About – Them
Gina Chua’s keynote address to the IRE22 conference in Denver, in the US, emphasized how rebuilding public trust in investigative journalism requires a diverse workforce that truly represents and engages with the communities it serves.
Methodology News & Analysis
9 Tips for Investigative Journalists to Improve Their Writing
From respecting that different journalists have different styles of reporting to using voices from the field to tell the story, and from keeping it simple with clear language to just ‘getting started,’ here are tips from two experienced reporters for the write-up stage of an investigation.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Data Journalism Top 10: Child Detentions at US Border, Slave Journeys, Aztec Iconography, Facebook’s ‘Broken Promises’
This week, our DDJ Top 10 looks at The Marshall Project’s analysis of child detention at the US border, the Baltimore Banner’s in-depth story on the city’s vacant housing crisis. Plus, we dive into stories using historical data to investigate how slavery broke apart families, a flight analysis on the new destinations of the Russian elite, and a look at Facebook’s “broken promises.”
Case Studies News & Analysis
From Source to Table: How Journalists Are Investigating Food Stories Worldwide
While food is often covered from a cultural lens, it is increasingly garnering the attention of investigative journalists, who are bringing new scrutiny to the environmental impacts of supply chains, labor conditions, and political influence linked to food.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Asia’s SOPA Awards Honor Stories on Fishing Crimes, Uzbek Taxpayer Abuses, and COVID Data Obstruction
Winners of the prestigious 2022 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards were recently announced in Hong Kong, in a gala event that recognized innovative data and investigative journalism as well as the courage of reporters working in Asia’s rising climate of censorship and media repression.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Data Journalism Top 10: Black Sea Blockade, Yemen Airstrikes, Hong Kong Shoebox Housing, Space Garbage
This week, GIJN’s roundup of the best in data journalism features an analysis of the impact of Russia’s Black Sea blockade on the global food chain, a deep dive into the US military’s role in aiding Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen, and a look at how different forms of inequality affect the lives of residents in Brussels, Belgium.