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GIJN Members Protest Russia Entry Denial to Scoop’s Khomenok

by GIJN Staff • November 5, 2012

On October 29, our Ukrainian colleague Oleg Khomenok was refused entry to Russia for unexplained reasons. A long-time trainer for GIJN member Scoop, the Denmark-based investigative reporting network, he was invited to Russia by the group’s St. Petersburg-based partner, the Regional Press Institute, to give a lecture at a seminar on investigative reporting in Kaliningrad. At the airport, he was barred from entry by border officials, without explanation, and deported on the same plane in which he had arrived.

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Gutsy Exposés, Undercover Work Win Top Honors at 2012 African Investigative Journalism Awards

October 31, 2012

A courageous effort by the Sunday Times in South Africa into the operations of a police death squad won the top prize in the 2012 African Investigative Journalism Awards.

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Global Network News — October 2012

by GIJN Staff • October 23, 2012

The GIJN warmly welcomes six new member organizations, extending the global network to 74 groups in 35 countries.

Journalists from Brazil, Peru Top List of 2012 Latin American Investigative Journalism Award Winners

by GIJN Staff • October 16, 2012

Impressive, world-class reporting was honored this week at the 2012 Latin American Investigative Journalism Conference (COLPIN) in Bogota, Colombia. Here’s a look at the winners, drawn from the announcement by the award’s sponsors, the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (Press and Society Institute, or IPYS) and Transparency International.

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Investigative Journalism’s Key Role in Deterring Fraud

by Margo Smit, Brigitte Alfter, Mar Cabra, Annamarie Cumiskey, Ides Debruyne, Marcos García Rey, Rafael Njotea, and Albrecht Ude • October 9, 2012

For five-and-a-half-months, a team of European journalists has researched, at the behest of the European Parliament, the critical role that investigative journalism can play in deterring fraud in the European Union. Their nearly 300-page report, released today in Brussels, is a landmark study that makes a powerful case for the contribution that investigative reporting makes “to greater transparency on this issue, tracking irregularities, fraud and corruption, and uncovering misspending on different levels and scales in the EU member states and the EU institutions.”

Global Network News — Sept. 2012

by GIJN Staff • September 24, 2012

GIJN is growing! Since July the Global Network has expanded by 30 percent–we now represent 60 groups in 35 countries. Our membership includes investigative reporting centers, professional associations, and grant-making bodies.