Data Journalism
How Non-Coding Journalists Can Build Web Scrapers With AI — Examples and Prompts Included
With basic web knowledge, guidance, and examples, even non-coding journalists can build a scraper with large language models.
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Member Profiles
Uncovering Schemes Worth Billions: Inside the Belarusian Investigative Center
Since 2020, the exiled outlet’s investigations have led to approximately 90 sanction actions, proving how journalism can make a real impact on authoritarian regimes.
Case Studies Methodology
Uncovering the Hidden Environmental and Human Costs of Laos’ Banana and Durian Boom
As part of its Ground Truths collaborative project, a group of Pulitzer Center-sponsored journalists uncovered how foreign agribusiness companies are impacting Laos.
How They Did It
Connecting Brazil’s Financial Market to Environmental Violations: The Hidden Impacts of Agribusiness on Indigenous Lands
Investment funds issued to finance Brazil’s agribusiness sector bundle various bonds — some of them labeled “green” — but are tied to socio-environmental violations or potential land grabbing.
News & Analysis
Why Two Kenyan Journalists Launched a Startup to Change Global Health Storytelling
Verah Okeyo and Anne Mawathe were frustrated with newsroom constraints and envisioned producing deeply reported stories that communities and policymakers could not ignore.
Investigative Techniques
Updated Test of 24 LLMs for Geolocation
Bellingcat ran a series of geolocation challenges using two dozen popular AI platforms, with varying results.
News & Analysis
Brazilian Fact-Check Project Shifts Strategy to Fight Misinformation, Drops Labels to Focus on Sources and Tactics
The changes represent a methodological overhaul of the initiative, which launched in 2018 and now brings together 42 media outlets from different parts of Brazil that work collaboratively.
Using AI and Satellites to Track Illegal Fishing in Marine Protected Areas
Using artificial intelligence and synthetic aperture satellite technology, investigators can better identify and document illicit activity at sea.
News & Analysis
Inside the Cross-Border Network Exposing the Environmental Crisis Facing Africa’s Longest River
Co-founded by two journalists, InfoNile has grown into a sprawling ecosystem of cross-border investigations, multimedia storytelling, and data-driven reporting.
Distribution & Promotion
Bringing an Investigation on Clandestine Landing Strips in the Peruvian Amazon to the Stage
Mongabay Latam hopes to reach new audiences by taking its award-winning investigation to the theatre, using ‘stand-up journalism’ to tell the story behind the stories.