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GIJN’s 10 Must-Read Stories of 2025
GIJN’s top stories from the past year, including cutting-edge reporting tools and techniques, in-person conference presentations, and analysis of the state of the IJ community.
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Editor’s Pick: Best of Data Journalism from 2025
Our roundup of standout data journalism from the past year highlights projects that delve into conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine, and Africa, that explore the rise of AI, and interrogate global trade wars.
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Gold Mining Disasters, Lost Refugee Boats, AI-Powered Protest Crackdowns: Best Investigative Stories from Turkey in 2025
Investigative journalism in the country has shown remarkable resilience, depth, and impact despite operating under difficult conditions.
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GIJN Resource Center’s Top Guides for 2025
Highlights this year have included guides to investigating landfill emissions, detecting AI content online, digging into caste discrimination, and material to help reporters investigate possible war crimes.
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Clandestine Airstrips, a Mexican Mega Leak, and a Crisis of Unidentified Missing People: 2025’s Best Investigative Stories in Spanish
The investigative stories produced in the Spanish-speaking world this year show a vibrant journalistic landscape, despite the many challenges reporters now face in many places.
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GIJN’s Top Investigative Tools of 2025
In a year that kleptocracy and attacks on independent media spiked, investigative reporters harnessed a mix of new databases and innovative tools to hold bad actors accountable.
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Russian Arms Sales, Sanctioned Timber, and Putin’s Secret Children: 2024’s Best Investigations from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus
From Russia to Central Asia, the climate for investigative journalism is deteriorating. But watchdog reporters have not given up, even if many now have to report from overseas.
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War Impacts, Illicit Sanctions-Busting Trade, Black Sea Damage: 2024’s Best Investigations in Ukrainian
Despite the challenges of reporting in wartime, Ukrainian journalists continue to uncover corruption — even while under attack from disinformation campaigns.
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Global Tour of Investigative Podcasts: 2024 Edition
Our annual round-up of compelling investigative audio stories, as reviewed by GIJN’s global team. Featuring stories from the US, Germany, Switzerland, El Salvador, Turkey, and Russia.
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Dictatorship’s Legacy, Rise of Portugal’s Far Right, and Devastating Flooding: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in Portuguese
Also featuring stories on dubious pension payments, sinking cities, and deforestation, here are our favorite stories from the Lusophone world this year.
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Fake Fertilizer, Dirty Money, and a Kidnapping Epidemic: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories from Sub-Saharan Africa
Also featuring revelations about misuse of college scholarships in Ghana, a televangelist’s troubling empire in Nigeria, and a dive into a US charity’s spending in Malawi.
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Investigating Mining, Tracking Trolling, and Deconstructing a Building Collapse: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories from Turkey
Investigative journalism in Turkey faces many challenges and obstacles, but there are remarkable reporters digging into untold stories.
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Digital Slavery, Nickel Downstreaming, and Timber Grabbing: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in Southeast Asia
This year’s picks emphasize the region’s increasingly sophisticated cross-border crimes, but also how investigative journalists consistently expose them.
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A Mysterious Poisoning, Contaminated Tanker Trucks, and a Death in Custody: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories About China
Also featuring reporting on an elaborate con on a Chinese dissident, an academic credentials scandal, and trekking with Chinese migrants to the US border.
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Switzerland’s Hidden Slave Trade, Migrants ‘Dumped’ in the Desert, and a Religious Sex Scandal: 2024’s Best Investigations in French
Featuring stories from France to the Ivory Coast, Switzerland to Senegal, here are eight of the best investigations published in French this year.
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Editor’s Pick: Top 10 Data Journalism Projects of 2024
Highlights from a year of data journalism columns, from elections to the Olympics and the evolution of the love song.
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Deadly Protests, Rising Seas, and Investigating Corruption: 2024’s Best Investigations from Bangladesh
Also featuring investigations into UN peacekeepers, population data fudging, and the inadequate academic qualifications of a powerful police chief.
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Tracking the Exploitation of Illegal Gold, Human Trafficking, and Government Corruption: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in Spanish
A tour of the year’s best investigations from across Latin America and Spain, where journalists are uncovering stories that impact their communities.
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Investigating Yemen’s War, Uncovering Famine in Sudan, and Telling the Story of Gaza: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories from the Middle East
Plus a deep dive into a powerful figure behind a vital border crossing, an investigation into mercenaries in Yemen, and exposing real estate ownership in Dubai.
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GIJN Resource Center’s Top Guides and Tipsheets from 2024
GIJN’s top reporting guides and tipsheets from 2024, including an introduction to investigative journalism and guides on project management, fundraising, and extreme heat.
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Government Coalition Collapse, Green-Washing Natural Gas, Europe’s Opioid Crisis: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in German
Also featured on our list, a #MeToo case in higher education, secret funding of ‘race science,’ and the state of Swiss prisons.
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The Blasphemy Business, Real Estate Land Grabs, Instagram Misinformation: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in Pakistan
Our annual best-of list features stories on Pakistan’s sanitary workers, links between politicians and sugar mills, and the endless construction of a Balochistan road.
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Tracking Election Donations, Illicit Gold Markets, Parliamentary Stonewalling: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in India
Also featuring a look at algorithmic bias in dispensing food aid, corruption in the country’s largest civil service exam, and a tragic construction accident.
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GIJN’s Top Investigative Tools of 2024
In 2024, new and innovative digital tools provided leads and evidence for accountability stories on every continent.
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GIJN’s 10 Must-Read Stories of 2024
Featuring a showcase of game-changing reporting methods based on insider tips from real-world investigations and conference presentations.
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Stolen Treasures, Abducted Children, Nuclear Plant Occupation: 2023’s Best Investigative Stories in Ukrainian
Reporters in Ukraine face constant physical danger, but the war hasn’t prevented them from uncovering corruption and other misdeeds.
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Rooftop Spooks, Internet Censorship, Governor Fashion Budgets: 2023’s Best Investigative Stories in Russian
Journalists in Russia and elsewhere in the region continue to expose wrongdoing via innovative investigative tools and traditional reporting methods.
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Syrian Drug Trafficking, Deadly Migration, Daily Struggles in Gaza: 2023’s Best Investigative Stories in Arabic
Tenacious journalists in the MENA region press on, collaborating across borders and reporting on environmental pollution, corruption, and human rights abuses.