Despite the funding and sustainability challenges that watchdog reporting faces today, journalists across Africa are producing top-tier investigative stories. This is evident in, among others, the GIJN Editor’s Picks stories for the region from 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, and the decade before. However, Africa needs to catch up to the rest of the muckraking world […]
Nonprofit organizations dedicated to offering grants in support of investigative journalism in Africa.
Africa is home to a substantial amount of the global mineral wealth. The continent, according to the Natural Resource Governance Institute, holds about 30% of the world’s oil, gas, and mineral resources. This includes up to 92% of the world’s platinum and chromium reserves, 56% of cobalt, 54% of manganese, and 40% of its gold. […]
GIJN member The Norbert Zongo Cell for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO) strives to promote journalism in the public interest.
Among our new members, a media training outlet in Uganda – GIJN’s first from the country — a UK-based newsroom investigating land use, and a Russian unit working in exile.
AIJC2023 drew more than 400 participants from at least 35 African countries and 20 other nations around the world.
A study found many Google News Initiative projects in Middle East and Africa struggle to become more than makeshift versions of the original idea.
At the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, veteran journalists from Africa and the Middle East discussed the power and intimacy of audio and podcast reporting and how it can enable reporters to better access hard-to-cover stories.
