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Remote Sensing and Data Tools for Environmental Investigations
This edition of the GIJN Toolbox explores global databases and remote sensing resources that reporters can use to investigate local environmental threats.
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Data Journalism
Data Journalism Top 10: Russia’s Global Propaganda, Inflation Calculators, Zelensky’s Speeches, Animating Dataviz
In this week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism, we look at pro-Russian propaganda’s popularity in Africa and South Asia, the rising costs of goods in the US and India, inequitable disaster funding, and the power of animating data visualization.
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How Journalists Can Investigate on Telegram
Telegram is an invaluable research tool, helping journalists mine for information, investigate groups of people whose content is otherwise banned or limited on social media, and track protests and political movements in authoritarian countries. Here’s how to get started using it.
How They Did It News & Analysis
How They Did It: Inside the For-Profit Takeover of Europe’s Elder Care Homes
Reporters for Investigate Europe (IE) spent months examining the consequences of a seismic shift in Europe’s elder care homes, where for-profit companies have increasingly taken over the industry. Their investigation explored how this shift has affected residents and staff, and dug into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on some of society’s most vulnerable people.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Digital Attacks Become Key Weapon to Silence Independent Media
Independent media now have to deal with an increasing number of digital attacks on press freedom, from brute-force attacks on their servers to more sophisticated assaults on their social media presence and digitally-based legal challenges.
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Video Resources for Investigating in Asia/Pacific
To share best practices and other lessons learned from our most recent global conference, we are releasing a series of videos from the event’s many seminars, panels, and workshops. This latest installment focuses on reporting tips and collaborations in the Asia-Pacific region and insights for reporting in China.
News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
Five Ways to Stay Online During a Government Internet Shutdown
Shutting down the internet has become an increasingly common tactic of governments and regimes looking to prevent civil society and free media from operating. Here, experts in privacy and security give their advice on the tools and tactics for skirting internet blackouts.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Video Resources for Mapping, Satellites, Storytelling, Testing, Tracking, and Disinformation
To share best practices from our most recent global conference, GIJC21, we are releasing a series of videos from the event’s many seminars, panels, and workshops. This latest installment focuses on investigative tips and tools for using satellite imagery, flight tracking, and exposing disinformation.
News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
‘Reporting from the Outside’: Lessons from Investigative Journalists in Exile
Many autocracy-displaced media have managed to navigate surviving outside their home country with varying degrees of success. In a series of interviews with GIJN, exiled news leaders from around the world offer some best practices and lessons learned from their own experiences.
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10 Lessons from Bellingcat’s Logan Williams on Digital Forensic Techniques
Bellingcat’s Logan Williams, who presented a panel on digital forensic reporting labs at the 2022 International Journalism Festival 2022 in Perugia, Italy, gives his top tips for journalists interested in open source digital investigations.