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2022’s Best Investigative Stories in Portuguese
GIJN’s Portuguese editor, Ana Beatriz Assam, offers her editor’s picks for the best investigative journalism in Portuguese in 2022 — featuring stories from Brazil, Portugal, and Mozambique.
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2022’s Best Investigative Stories from the Arab World
Being an investigative journalist in the Middle East and North Africa was immensely challenging in 2022, thanks to the dramatic decline in press freedom in places once considered safer for journalists such as North Africa, the lack of human and financial resources, and the inability to access data and public information in most Arab countries.
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2022’s Best Investigative Reporting from Pakistan
GIJN’s Urdu editor, Amer Ghani, offers her editor’s picks for the best investigative reporting from Pakistan in 2022.
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Editor’s Pick: 2022’s Best Investigative Stories in India
GIJN’s Hindi editor offers his picks for the best investigative journalism stories from India during 2022.
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Editor’s Pick: 2022’s Best Investigative Stories in German
Some of the most notable stories in German-language journalism this year revealed that many good guys in public life were, as it turned out, not so good. The following stories examine public figures from sports, the media, and far-right networks, and also show how big players — such as sportswear behemoth Nike, the fintech company Wirecard, or multinational energy giant RWE — behave when they think nobody’s watching.
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Editor’s Pick: Top 10 Data Journalism Projects from 2022
Throughout 2022, journalists have used data projects to track and assess the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the ongoing impacts of climate change, and important political elections around the world. Here, GIJN selects our top 10 data journalism projects of the year, which also includes a look at the polarization of the COVID vaccines in the US, a historical analysis of how debt burdened Haiti for centuries, irregularities in Spanish caesarean delivery rates, and the privatization of UK’s water resources.
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Editor’s Pick: 2021’s Best Investigative Stories from Bangladesh
Over the last 12 months investigative journalists in Bangladesh uncovered cases of corruption, abuse of power, money laundering, and institutional negligence. The biggest topic last year, as in previous years, was corruption. But in picking the top stories of 2021, we also considered significance and novelty, the diversity of issues covered, impact, and a focus on the vulnerable and marginalized sectors of society as much as the depth and techniques used in any investigation.
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Editor’s Pick: 2021’s Best Investigative Stories from China and Taiwan
This was a tough year for Chinese journalists, who continue to work in a repressive press landscape. Yet several outstanding investigations were produced by courageous newsrooms in 2021. In this curated roundup, we list eight fine examples from China and Taiwan.
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Editor’s Pick: 2021’s Best Investigative Stories from Sub-Saharan Africa
At a time when newsrooms in Africa are increasingly struggling with shortages of cash and threats to press freedom, the level of investigative journalism that emerged from sub-Saharan Africa in 2021 was remarkable. Here, we share 10 outstanding examples from the region.
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Editor’s Pick: 2021’s Best Investigative Journalism from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus
Despite worsening legal and physical attacks on the press, solidarity among journalists in Russia and the Eastern European region is growing. Our list of the eight best investigations of the year reveals that more and more cross-border, joint investigations are being carried out, and illustrate continuing reporting courage in the region that should inspire the entire journalism community.