How They Did It
Opening the AI ‘Black Box’: How We Investigated Grab’s Fare System
How the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism looked into the opaque algorithm used by the ride-hailing company Grab.
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How We Did It: Amnesty International’s Investigation of Algorithms in Denmark’s Welfare System
Amnesty Tech’s Algorithmic Accountability Lab led a sweeping probe into possible algorithmic bias and mass surveillance by Denmark’s welfare agency.
How They Did It Teaching & Training
How an Investigative Hub Trained a Generation of Reporters in the US-Mexico Border Region
The Mexico Border Investigative Reporting Hub helped new muckrakers shine a light on corruption and human rights issues.
How They Did It News & Analysis
How Two Reporters Found 63 Political Candidates Wanted by Brazilian Courts
A data investigation looked into the lack of transparency in Brazilian elections that allows candidates wanted for crimes to run for office without public knowledge.
How They Did It Methodology
Investigating Gaza: How the Associated Press Documented the Families Devastated by War
Sarah El Deeb documented 60 families from the Gaza Strip who have lost 25 members or more from Israeli airstrikes during the first three months of the conflict.
How They Did It Reporting Tools & Tips
Investigating State Attacks on Exiles: Lessons from The Washington Post’s ‘Repression’s Long Arm’ Series
The international investigations team at The Washington Post is tackling the issue of transnational repression in an ongoing series called Repression’s Long Arm.
How They Did It News & Analysis
How One Investigation Exposed an Alarming Threat to the US Election — And Why Others Should Dig Deeper
A blockbuster Rolling Stone investigation discovered the extent of key official posts in swing state local election systems that have been filled by conspiracy theorists.
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Investigating Real Estate Developments: Lessons from an Award Winning Project in Mexico
The Mexican outlet N+Focus won this year’s Ortega y Gasset Award for the best multimedia project with their detailed investigation into the impact of real estate developments on local people.
How They Did It Methodology
Combining Ethnography and Journalism Into an Award-Winning Investigation in Central America
Two Salvadoran investigative journalists discuss their ethnographic reporting on the impact of the drug trade on the La Moskitia Indigenous region of Central America.
How They Did It Methodology
How BBC Open Source Journalists Investigate, Analyze, and Verify Information from Gaza
GIJN talked with reporters doing the difficult work of covering the Hamas attack on Israel and its aftermath, including preparations for the October 7 assault.
How They Did It LATAM Focus News & Analysis
After Pablo and El Chapo: How Investigative Outlets Are Covering Organized Crime in Latin America
As organized crime in the region metastasizes, investigative journalism is rising to the challenge, using innovative ways to cover ever-changing threats.
How They Did It Investigative Techniques
How Reporting From Six Years Ago Exposed a Political Fundraising Scandal That Rocked India’s Elections
Poonam Agarwal explains how her reporting six years ago ultimately led to one of the biggest political fundraising scandals in a decade.
How They Did It Investigative Techniques
‘Smoke and Lies’: How Visual Forensics Disproved Official Accounts of a Deadly Migrant Center Fire
Lighthouse Reports journalists share how their cross-border collaboration investigated the deaths of 40 people in a fire at a migrant detention center.
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How The New York Times Uncovered and Visualized Dangers Faced by Child Influencers
An interview with two journalists who investigated the world of child influencers and the highly sexualized nature of some of their most ardent fans.
How They Did It
How ProPublica Exposed Ethics Scandals at the US Supreme Court
How ProPublica reporters revealed behind-the-scenes connections between billionaires and US Supreme Court justices.
How They Did It
How We Uncovered the Asbestos Dangers Lurking in Turkey’s Earthquake Zone
After a February 2023 earthquake ravaged southern Turkey, these reporters traveled to the region to investigate the health risks from the clouds of deadly asbestos dust that covered the landscape.
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Investigating Corruption and the ‘Tanker Mafias’ in Karachi’s Water Supply Chain
The team that dug into Karachi’s water supply crisis shares insights from their reporting — and the challenges of doing investigative journalism in Pakistan’s largest city.
How They Did It
Going Undercover to Reveal a Secret Meeting of Germany’s Far Right
Behind the scenes of the blockbuster CORRECTIV investigation that revealed a disturbing far right ‘master plan’ to expel millions of people from Germany.
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How They Did It: Investigating the Online Trade in Sexual Assault Videos in East Asia
GIJN spoke to journalists behind ‘Catching a Pervert,’ BBC Eye’s year-long investigation into the people profiting from the public sexual abuse of women.
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How They Did It: Investigating the Pylos Shipwreck
In June 2023, a small fishing trawler carrying hundreds of migrants sank off the coast of Pylos, Greece — one of the deadliest migrant shipwrecks in recent years.
How They Did It Reporting Tools & Tips
How a Small Nonprofit Newsroom Broke the Oil Deal Pitching Scandal at COP28
Based on a leaked trove of briefing documents, this exposé revealed the COP28 host country’s plan to push for lucrative oil and gas deals at the world’s premier climate change conference.
Case Studies How They Did It
How One Nigerian Journalist on a Motorcycle Exposed Armed Warlords
Yusuf Anka spent three years riding into and out of dangerous territory in northwestern Nigeria, investigating armed gangs plaguing his home region.
How They Did It Reporting Tools & Tips
Behind-the-Scenes of the Washington Post’s Investigation Into a 40-Year-Old Grenadian Mystery
Jeff Leen, the head of investigations at the Post for the past 20 years, speaks about their latest podcast and how the outlet tackles in-depth stories.
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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.
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Death Weapons: How a Reporting Team Infiltrated Online Neo-Nazi Networks
A team of investigative journalists from Germany and the US used undercover reporting, OSINT, and data analysis skills to connect online extremism with offline terror.
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GIJC23 – Rewriting History: Investigations that Change Our Understanding of the Past
The best historians and investigative journalists share a great deal: they go after primary sources, they follow the trails of money and accountability, and they put events in a broader context that the public can understand. Often those events look shockingly different just 20 or 30 years later, based on documents, data, and interviews.
How They Did It
Tracking Far-Right Suspects Across Continents: A 10-Year Hunt for Spanish Fugitives
As Spain transitioned to democracy, a series of attacks were carried out by the far-right. In some cases, the culprits were never found. To provide some measure of accountability, two journalists from El País have worked for a decade tracking down fugitives in cases forgotten or closed by the authorities.
Case Studies How They Did It
How They Did It: Tracking Phosphate Smuggling From Syria Into Europe
SIRAJ founder Mohammad Bassiki collaborated with OCCRP and Lighthouse Reports to investigate the illicit smuggling of sanctioned Syrian phosphates into Europe.