To support our colleagues around the world on the International Day of Democracy, GIJN has rounded up a series of our reporting guides, tip sheets, and webinars — both to define the anti-democratic challenges and to provide tips and tools for digging into authoritarian bad actors and defending against their attacks.
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.
Veteran journalist Anton Harber speaks about the state of journalism and press freedom in South Africa as well as the importance of holding the media accountable for its complicity in abetting state capture.
While there are plenty of examples of student investigative reporters who are supported by their institutions, there are many others who face a lack of cooperation, low pay, legal threats, funding issues, and even physical harm.
Investigative journalists work tirelessly to get the truth and ensure that the public is informed on topics that are of public interest. Jamlab interviewed nine African investigative journalists to talk about their experiences of reporting in their respective countries.
Conditions for journalists in authoritarian countries are challenging and often dangerous. In light of these challenges, journalists and donors need to widen their understanding of the less traditional ways journalism generates impact.
Since its inception 20 years ago, the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) has remained faithful to its founding principles: professional training, defense of freedom of expression, and the right of access to public information.
Intrepid journalists are still conducting investigations on countries within the Arab Gulf region, but due to political repression and other press freedom issues, they’ve had to report from afar or build and operate their independent media sites while in exile.
Attendees at the Pulitzer Center’s climate change reporting summit held up posters and spoke out to raise awareness about the disappearance of journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, who went missing in the Amazon rainforest. A suspect has since confessed to killing the men, and two bodies thought to be them have been found, according to media reports.
Andras Petho, co-founder of the investigative news outlet Direkt36, offers lessons learned from witnessing first-hand the press crackdown of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
