Small amounts of failure in the open source field are inevitable, and somewhat expected. But they will also help you become a better open source analyst and investigator.
Poonam Agarwal explains how her reporting six years ago ultimately led to one of the biggest political fundraising scandals in a decade.
Digital investigations expert Craig Silverman offers a short guide to using digital ad libraries to dig through online influence efforts.
Lighthouse Reports journalists share how their cross-border collaboration investigated the deaths of 40 people in a fire at a migrant detention center.
There is a treasure trove of compelling visual evidence out there that is going unused by many watchdog journalists. Here’s how to find it.
How a fact-checking collective in India fought misinformation and deepfakes in that country’s recently concluded elections.
Rebecca Clarren’s investigative history grapples with her immigrant family’s success at the expense of their Indigenous neighbors.
Accessing information from isolated nations like North Korea is difficult. Cutting-edge AI tools now enable efficient analysis of foreign language video broadcasts.
The third cohort of GIJN’s online training in cyber and digital threats investigations has now completed, graduating journalists from more than 26 countries.
Photo editors and AI experts discuss the dangers of generative AI and other synthetic media to visual journalism — and what news organizations can do to reduce them.
The Pulitzer Center discusses how it has developed different methodologies to uncover environmental wrongdoing, adapted to the region, jurisdiction, and industry.
In this GIJN Webinar, three experts share tips, tools, and resources to identify, investigate, and verify potential deepfakes.
At a recent panel at the 2024 NICAR conference, Karrie Kehoe, deputy head of data and research at ICIJ, offered a series of tips for investigating the true owners of shell companies.
Experts agree that AI-driven audio deepfakes could pose a significant threat to democracy and fair elections in 2024.
Open source experts are faced with torrents of graphic visuals. So how can journalists protect themselves against harm from incessantly viewing traumatic imagery?
This webinar shares methodologies for investigating war and conflict, and provide a briefing on the laws that govern what, in popular usage, are called “war crimes.”
A guide to some US government data sources that can help foreign and US journalists covering US wars, arms sales, and the impact of US foreign policy.
This panel will delve into how to navigate this sometimes fraught relationship and offer best practices on how to tap into what can be a shady underworld.
In this panel session, attendees heard about the latest visual investigations techniques from three members of The New York Times and Washington Post teams.
Backgrounding an individual’s holdings is essential, but ferreting out front companies, tax dodges, and hidden assets can be a tough undertaking.
The numerous ways to track ships and planes open a whole new range of stories for journalists to investigate.
Our expert panelists discuss possible opportunities for using satellite images, where to find them, and how they can enrich investigations.
There are numerous investigative topics to explore between the farmer’s field and the grocery store – and, indeed, the plate – and several recent projects have exposed abuses in the production, distribution, and access to food. This expert panel offers deep experience in issues from fisheries and pesticides to food security and biodiversity — with journalists based in Tunisia, the UK, the US, and Southeast Asia.
We are in the midst of a decade-long global backlash against democracy and human rights. A new extremism has taken hold, characterized by radical right-wing groups and ultranationalist political movements. These groups are not only growing but are becoming more organized. International ties among them are also growing — digitally, ideologically, financially — but their networks are poorly understood and investigative journalism in this area is lacking.
If there was just one panel to attend at GIJC23, this might be it. We’re witnessing a global assault on democratic institutions and a sustained global decline in democracies.
The rise of AI-powered chatbots has prompted hot debates about whether these technologies will reshape or unmake our world.
This workshop might just emerge as the one that changes your life as a watchdog journalist. Misinformation and disinformation on “closed” social media networks — such as WhatsApp and Telegram – have already had devastating consequences for democratic processes in places like India, Nigeria, Russia, and Brazil.
In 2001 GIJN was born, as investigative journalists from around the globe met for the very first time to share ideas, tips, and best practices to strengthen their reporting in a world where journalism was increasingly under threat.
Today the threat has multiplied, and at GIJN we find ourselves under the same pressures as our member organizations. Most urgently: available funding for investigative journalism has been impacted as some longtime funders who supported journalism in the past are no longer doing so or have closed. Yet our work continues, more important than ever before.
GIJN serves as the global hub for the world’s investigative reporters. Our core mission is to support and strengthen investigative journalism—with special attention to those from repressive regimes and marginalized communities.
We are embarking on our first-ever campaign initiative to help us expand our revenue by the end of the year through individual donors. If you have ever joined one of our free webinars, used one of our free resources, learned a new skill thanks to a GIJN training, or simply believe that press freedom is essential to civil society, we ask you to show your support for GIJN’s work with a donation of your choosing. Called “Friends of GIJN,” this campaign includes a more personalized experience, starting in 2027, for individuals who answer the call to join with us during this unprecedented time.
Truth and democracy are under attack around the world. You can fight back by helping GIJN support investigative journalists with free access to the latest tools and techniques — so they can foster justice and hold accountable those who abuse the public trust.
With a staff based in 24 countries, GIJN works in a dozen languages each day, linking together the world’s most enterprising journalists, offering state-of-the-art training, webinars, tip sheets, and a Help Desk that responds to 2,000+ requests for assistance each year. More than 84% of GIJN’s operating budget goes directly to our program work.
Please make a gift today to support journalists on the front lines of the fight for accountability and human rights.
