GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Waste, Fraud, Abuse: Covering the Environmental Crime Beat
Journalists share stories and tips from their investigations into environmental crimes, from deforestation in the Congo to the Beirut port blast.
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environmental reporting
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News & Analysis
Behind Closed Doors: Investigating the System for Settling Investor-State Disputes
The little-known but powerful Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system considers high stakes cases between companies and national governments, which often take years to resolve.
Case Studies Member Profiles
The Environmental Investigative Forum Taking Cross-Border Collaboration to the Next Level
The group has built an international network of more than 100 trained investigative journalists and environmental experts probing the activities impacting the natural world.
Data Journalism Data Journalism Top 10
Data Journalism Top 10: Turkey-Syria Earthquake, Russian Censorship, Missing Snow, Energy Saving Tips
Our weekly round-up of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter looks at mapping of the destruction in the Turkey-Syria earthquake, insight into Russia’s digital censorship apparatus, an alarming lack of snow on Swiss ski slopes, and a tool to help you save energy.
Climate News & Analysis
The Rise of African Environmental Investigative Journalism
Investigative journalism of environmental issues has grown substantially in recent years in Africa, thanks to a number of new initiatives and reporting projects.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Investigating Toxic Military Bases and Their Links to Cancer
Rare cancers among military veterans are increasingly linked to earlier chemical dumping and burn pits at old bases. In this piece, three Associated Press reporters share tips on exposing these links, based on their year-long investigation into a former US military base.
Data Journalism
Data Journalism Top 10: Unhappy Russians, Bad Cops, Women in Data, Korean Elections
In this week’s GIJN round-up of the Top 10 in Data Journalism, we look at the declining public mood inside Russia, EU spending on Russian fossil fuels, costly US police misconduct, and South Korean election graphics.
Investigative Techniques Reporting Tools & Tips
Journalists’ Guide to Using AI and Satellite Imagery for Storytelling
Satellite imagery provides information that can enhance the ability to write compelling narratives about the state of our planet, cutting across multiple beats. But such a tool tends to be complex and out of the reach for many journalists, so this guide offers a process that reporters interested in covering the climate crisis can use for story projects.
Case Studies
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.
Data Journalism
Data Journalism Top 10: Hawaii’s Disappearing Beaches, Stolen Paintings, Investigating Disappearances, Herd Immunity Calculator
Hawaii’s scenery can be breathtaking, with cliff-rimmed white-sand beaches and surf-worthy waves. But our NodeXL #ddj mapping (Dec. 28-Jan. 3) found ProPublica highlighting dramatic erosion of the island state’s beaches over the past century. Also in this edition, we feature an interactive graphic to calculate the time to achieve COVID-19 herd immunity based on the US vaccination rate, a global vaccine distribution tracker, Federica Fragapane’s visualization of stolen paintings, and a compilation of 2020’s best data visualization lists.