Also: the shifting frontlines in the Russia-Ukraine War, quantifying the worldwide funding gap to fight climate change, and mapping Central Asia’s disappearing Aral Sea basin.
Sevgil Musaieva on the challenges of reporting during war and the dilemma facing journalists who want to fight for their country.
An innovative new database, the Open Source Munitions Portal (OSMP), identifies and shows remnants of explosive devices in conflict zones.
Also highlighting stories on gains and losses in recent elections from Europe to India, claims of copyright theft by AI companies, and Peru’s broken adoption process.
Also features an investigation into deforestation in the Bolivian Amazon; greenwashing in the Netherlands; and a look at Madonna’s popularity in Brazil.
Valeriya Yegoshyna spent years investigating high-level corruption in Ukraine, but now focuses on investigating allegations of war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine.
Featuring wage theft mapping in New York, the alarming rise in US airliner near misses, Russia’s brain drain, and a historical analysis of the Great Kantō earthquake in Japan 100 years ago.
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism looks into a deadly migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean, nepotism in US politics, French police brutality, and record-breaking global warming.
The Kyiv Independent was launched just months before the start of the war in Ukraine. In her keynote address at the CIJ summer conference, the outlet’s editor-in-chief spoke about the challenges of running an investigative project in the midst of conflict, and how the team have battled to make the organization sustainable.
In this week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism, GIJN looks at the perilous state of UK housing affordability, tabulating a true Russia casualty count, and the common traits among US banned books.
