Reporting Tools & Tips
Here’s How to Turn Students into Sleuths in 15 Weeks
Rookies can become top-notch investigative reporters in a matter of months. Megan Clement rounded up tips for GIJN on how one professor in Chile gets it done.
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Global Conference: Call for Research Papers/Abstracts
The 11th Global Investigative Journalism Conference, scheduled for this September 26-29 in Hamburg, Germany, will feature an academic research track. Journalism professors and researchers worldwide are invited to submit research paper abstracts highlighting trends, challenges, teaching methodologies, new developments and best practices in investigative and data journalism. Abstracts are due April 8, 2019.
Case Studies
New Models: How Academics, Nonprofit News and Government are Collaborating
The Global Reporting Centre has launched an ambitious project investigating labor abuse, environmental impact and corruption in global commerce. Here’s the Centre’s Peter W Klein on how Hidden Costs will bring together award-winning journalists, scholars and major media organizations — including the New York Times, PBS Frontline, the Toronto Star, Smithsonian Channel, NBC News, DigitalGlobe and Google News Labs — to undertake investigative-reporting projects.
The Research Desk: Tips on Digging into Scholarly Research Journals
Some think of scholarly or academic journals and the articles they contain as boring, not easy to read, and not useful if you’re not an academic. While this might be the case for some articles, the belief that this is the case for all articles in all publications is wrong. Academic and scholarly publications can be of tremendous value to the journalist and researcher.