Reporting Tools & Tips
GIJN’s Top 10 Investigative Tools of 2023
Having flagged the top tips at NICAR23, IRE23, and GIJC23 in Sweden, GIJN offers the following 10 user-friendly tools that you might consider in your next investigations.
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Reporting Tools & Tips
My Favorite Tools: El Salvador’s Jimmy Alvarado on Exposing Corruption
El Faro investigative journalist Jimmy Alvarado offers his favorite tools and techniques for exposing corruption.
Reporting Tools & Tips
GIJN Toolbox: Hunting for Secret Money and Financial Conflicts of Interest
In this edition of GIJN Toolbox, we profile three brand new — or newly expanded — tools to dig into financial secrecy and hidden gains from corruption or crime. Our list includes a user-friendly database to search for sanctions and conflict-of-interest red flags, a site that uses an algorithm to detect hidden bank accounts, and a newly expanded database on the true owners of offshore companies.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Key Tools and Datasets for Unearthing Hard-to-Find Information
In a lightning round session at #GIJC21, a panel of leading reporters and editors needed just five minutes each to outline new tools and databases that any reporter can use to gather hard-to-find facts.
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A Tour Of Aleph, A Data Search Tool For Reporters
In a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the Aleph is a point in space that contains all others. To those who see it, it presents the entire universe at once — an investigative reporter’s dream. Over the past six months, I’ve been working for OCCRP to produce a tool named after this mythical object. It’s based on a prototype I hacked up as part of my 2014 Knight International Journalism Fellowship, and it has now grown into a data research tool as part of the Investigative Dashboard.