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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How They Did It
How They Did It: Investigating Organized Crime Networks in the Amazon Rainforest
Amazon Underworld is a large-scale project that aims to reveal how organized crime now controls a critical region nearly devoid of governance.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Investigating Cryptocurrency: Key Questions and Tips for Reporters
Criminal activity tends to thrive where state oversight is weakest. So it’s no wonder that cryptocurrencies are the financial tool of choice for criminals around the world, which makes insightful coverage of them increasingly important for investigative journalists.
Resource Video
GIJC23 – The New Organized Crime
Organized crime today is fluid, transnational, enterprising, and an estimated trillion-dollar industry.
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The New Organized Crime: How to Catch Up With Criminals
An all-star team of five journalism experts shared their approaches to investigating the ever-evolving world of organized crime.
News & Analysis
Investigating Organized Crime in the Amazon: The Bruno and Dom Project
After the British journalist Dom Phillips and the Brazilian Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Pereira were killed, several newsrooms and more than 50 journalists collaborated on Forbidden Stories’ The Bruno and Dom Project, to honor the pair’s legacy and expose illegal activities in the area along the borders of Brazil, Peru, and Colombia, where the men were murdered.
10 Questions
From Fact-Checker to Editor-in-Chief: How One Woman Rose to the Top at OCCRP
Miranda Patrucic built her career investigating crime and corruption in Central Asia and Azerbaijan. Hear her tips on avoiding burnout, difficult interviews, and in believing in your ability to uncover the truth.
News & Analysis
5 Questions for Venezuelan Journalist Ronna Rísquez on Overcoming Fear, Covering Organized Crime, and Working as a Woman Journalist
Venezuelan journalist Ronna Rísquez has covered violence and organized crime in South America for more than 20 years. In conversation with LatAm Journalism Review, Rísquez talks about the challenges she has faced practicing journalism as a woman and about the threats she received before publishing her first solo book.
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Lessons Learned from Mexican Investigative Journalist Anabel Hernández
Anabel Hernández is one of the most prominent investigative journalists in Mexico. With more than 30 years of experience, she has dedicated her career to investigating organized crime and the complicity of politicians, the military, and businessmen in the war on drugs in Mexico and beyond.
Resource Guide
Guide to Investigating Organized Crime in Africa
Organized crime is a global phenomenon. But Africa, with its deep-seated corruption and “resource curse,” is particularly hard hit.