Senegal’s first publicly-funded, independent media site — La Maison des Reporters — was launched after a young journalist, Moussa Ngom, grew frustrated with his country’s mainstream news.
To share investigative best practices and other lessons learned from our most recent conference, GIJC21, we are releasing a series of videos from the event’s many seminars, panels, and workshops. The first installment in this series focuses on how investigative reporters can better dig into organized crime and corruption around the world.
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism features in-depth analysis of the massive destruction being wrought on Ukraine, the harassment of scientists working on COVID-19, the various ways global corporations are changing their footprint in Russia, and the ranking of Oscar-nominated films.
The US Department of Justice unsealed two federal indictments charging government employees of Russia’s Ministry of Defense and Federal Security Service with hacking campaigns that infiltrated the global energy sector, including a US nuclear power plant.
In GIJN’s weekly Top 10 in Data Journalism, we look at Russia’s overconfident war plans, the Ukrainian refugee crisis, the potential for a new malaria vaccine, and the ongoing COVID-19 catastrophe in Hong Kong.
Speaking during GIJN’s Tips and Tools from Women Investigators webinar, reporters from Germany, Kenya, and Turkey recounted their experiences dealing with court injunctions, going undercover, and investigating under-reported stories.
Meduza, one of Russia’s last remaining independent news sites, lost 30,000 donors after the government cut off subscriber payments from the country due to unflinching coverage of the war. In less than a week, two German reporters organized a crowdfunding campaign to replace those funds to try to save Meduza.
At the NICAR22 data conference, reporters from ProPublica and The New York Times revealed how they investigated an online campaign of “selfie” propaganda videos denying the mass detention of Chinese Uighurs.
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.
OCCRP senior investigator Tom Stocks shares 10 best practices for tracking the mansions and superyachts of Russian oligarchs and officials deemed closest to President Vladimir Putin.
