New members include two exiled newsrooms; three outlets with a major focus on the environment and climate change; and several organizations that dig into organized crime and human rights violations.
This October and November, GIJN member representatives will vote to elect three regional representatives and four at-large directors for the 15-person Board of Directors.
New members include organizations doing crucial watchdog work in areas from deforestation to African data journalism capacity to the exploitation of child migrants.
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.
This August and September, member representatives of GIJN will vote to elect 7 members of its 15-member Board of Directors. Here is a list of candidates who have submitted their names for GIJN’s Board of Directors.
The group has built an international network of more than 100 trained investigative journalists and environmental experts probing the activities impacting the natural world.
In Tunisia, where the first protests of the Arab Spring took place, a start-up with a focus on investigative journalism and narrative storytelling is attempting to exploit the country’s relative media freedom to win over readers.
Some of the most significant progress in newsroom information security over the past decade has been in smaller, more recently-formed digital startups — many of them investigative outlets. They are proving they can effectively incorporate strong information security strategies into their highly adaptive and responsive workflows.
GIJN’s latest membership class sees its first member in Lithuania and a Netherlands-based exiled group focused on Turkmenistan. The groups include investigative media outlets, a journalists’ collective, and a social enterprise that is building representative newsrooms. GIJN also welcomed members from Denmark, Georgia, India, South Africa, and the United States.
GIJN’s latest membership class includes its first two members from Francophone Africa and three new members in the Middle East/North Africa. They range from investigative newsrooms and media development groups to university-based centers and cross-border networks. GIJN also welcomed members from six previously unrepresented countries: Cameroon, Malta, Paraguay, Palestine, Senegal, and the Slovak Republic.
