This GIJN webinar brings together leading experts in investigative journalism to share hands-on strategies for securely managing leaks and navigating this rapidly evolving reporting landscape.
The new, searchable database FBarchive is designed to help researchers, journalists, and policymakers better understand and investigate decisions made at Meta about some of the most influential social media platforms across the globe.
This investigation into the suspicious death of a Ukrainian immigrant while in police custody won Gazeta Wyborcza reporter Jacek Harłukowicz Poland’s top prize for journalism in 2021.
How do you tackle a fraudulent blue-chip corporation that has the means to deploy teams of lawyers, private investigators, hackers, and even foreign spies to stop your investigation? Dan McCrum, an investigative reporter at the Financial Times, told GIJN how he took down a fraudulent $30 billion company, and offered tips on how reporters can tackle bad actors with almost unlimited resources.
This week’s Friday 5 surfaced some of our must reads from around the English-language web, including research from Citizen Lab on Pegasus targeting a New York Times reporter, the Media Impact Fund’s insight for nonprofit media donors, and the out-of-beta Google Dataset Search.
One of the central ethical tenets of professional journalism is “first, protect your sources.” But in this digital age, it is becoming more dangerous to keep your sources safe as governments are able to track reporters and their sources digitally. Here are 20 guidelines for working with whistleblowers in the digital era. What’s missing?
Extraordinary documentation can make for an extraordinary story — and terrible trouble for sources if handled without enough care. Here’s a checklist to help reporters and news organizations protect their sources from getting hurt by materials posted along with a story.
