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After 21 Years, AIJC Signs Off from South Africa in Style. Next Stop: Kenya
More than 455 attendees representing 45 countries, 37 of them in Africa, attended Africa’s premier investigative journalism conference at Wits University.
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The Case for Free Access to FOIA-Based Public Documents Reporting
Full, unpaywalled access to public records reporting is not only good for democracy, it can increase reader trust and bolster sustainability.
How They Did It News & Analysis
Investigating How Many Migrants Lose their Lives Crossing the Rio Grande
This transnational collaborative project investigating US-Mexico border deaths won the 2025 Gabo Award, with judges praising its “investigative rigor” and “innovative approach.”
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Watchdog Journalism’s Future in US May Depend on Independent Reporters
Investigations by independent journalists like Pablo Torre are a clear example of the growing need for bottom-up, citizen journalism — particularly given US media industry trends.
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2025 Double Exposure Festival: Interrogating New Fault Lines on Lethal Inequity, Human Resilience, and the Limits of Journalism
The four-day event will showcase 25 feature-length and short-form documentaries that shine new narrative light on urgent topics in North America and far beyond.
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Finding — and Building — Your Professional Community to Strengthen Investigative Journalism
Networking in journalism, especially investigative journalism, is not merely about establishing superficial contacts but about building a trust-based, ethical, and resilient professional community.
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Q & A with Liset Cruz, Reporting on US Medical Deportations
Type Investigations goes behind the scenes of a recent exposé on how hospitals are turning to medical deportations of undocumented patients in the United States.
Inside GIJN News & Analysis
2025 Candidates for GIJN’s Board of Directors
This October, GIJN member representatives will vote to elect three regional representatives and four at-large directors for the 15-person Board of Directors.
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Nora Gámez Torres, Cuban Journalist in Florida, Wins Maria Moors Cabot Prize
The award-winning reporter was described by the jury as “the most authoritative voice on the island nation in the US media.”
GIJC25 News & Analysis
GIJN Bookshelf: The Malaysia Edit
Headed to GIJC25 in Kuala Lumpur later this year? Here are a dozen books about Malaysia to read before your trip.
Member Profiles News & Analysis
Seeking the Truth, in the Midst of a Country in Crisis: Haiti’s AyiboPost
Being a journalist in Haiti means not only witnessing daily violence but also being a potential target, one news outlet remains a home for those who refuse to stop reporting.
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Investigating a Scandal in the Publishing World: Q & A with Chloe Hadjimatheou
“The Salt Path” was a bestselling memoir, but after a tipoff, this reporter wondered if everything was quite as it seemed.
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Why Two Kenyan Journalists Launched a Startup to Change Global Health Storytelling
Verah Okeyo and Anne Mawathe were frustrated with newsroom constraints and envisioned producing deeply reported stories that communities and policymakers could not ignore.
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Brazilian Fact-Check Project Shifts Strategy to Fight Misinformation, Drops Labels to Focus on Sources and Tactics
The changes represent a methodological overhaul of the initiative, which launched in 2018 and now brings together 42 media outlets from different parts of Brazil that work collaboratively.
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Festival Gabo 2025: Journalism as a ‘Light of Hope’ in an Increasingly Challenging Era for Latin America
The 13th edition of the Gabo Festival highlighted some of the most urgent challenges facing journalism today, particularly in Latin America.
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How Newsrooms Are Using AI Chatbots to Leverage Their Own Reporting — and Build Trust
From the Philippines to the UK, a number of major newsrooms have created their own AI chatbots designed to respond using only that site’s trusted reporting archive and vetted databases as source material.
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Tips on Running a Successful Local Investigative Outlet
Despite starting out as an online newsletter with no office and no team, Joshi Herrmann’s Mill Media has grown into a case study on how to make big-impact local investigative journalism work.
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Inside the Cross-Border Network Exposing the Environmental Crisis Facing Africa’s Longest River
Co-founded by two journalists, InfoNile has grown into a sprawling ecosystem of cross-border investigations, multimedia storytelling, and data-driven reporting.
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Using FOIA to Track Trans Rights in Trump’s America
To track how executive orders affecting transgender people are being enforced, reporters filed hundreds of public records requests with federal, state, and local agencies.
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‘Foreign Agent’ Law in Bosnia Threatens Independent Media
Journalists and editors from this Balkan nation warn that if the recently passed law survives a legal challenge, it would stifle independent reporting.
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Tips for Investigating Green Energy Supply Chains in the Global South
At an IRE conference panel, experts discussed several powerful tools and innovative techniques for uncovering harmful practices by the global alternative energy industry.
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Investigating Inside Syria, Six Months After Assad’s Fall
A panel of experts investigating and documenting crimes committed by the old regime share their experiences of working in the “new Syria.”
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Investigating Cold Cases: How Two Journalists Dug Into Decades-Old Civil Rights Era Killings
To resurrect civil rights era cold cases, two reporters uncovered new sources and accessed forgotten government documents to reconsider the historical record.
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Navigating the Turbulence of an Editorial Crisis
The Director General of Norway’s public broadcaster shares valuable lessons learnt from what she called “the most harrowing experience of my professional life.”
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GIJN Co-Hosts International Journalists at IRE25
Sixty journalists from more than two-dozen countries and territories attended the International Luncheon at the 2025 Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference.
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Investigating Mexico: An Interview with the Reporter, Writer, and Film-Maker Diego Enrique Osorno
From covering drug cartels to investigating how corruption links to tragedy, the award-winning reporter has made chronicling modern day Mexico his beat.
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Book Excerpt: ‘Chasing Shadows’ by Ron Deibert
Read a short excerpt from ‘Chasing Shadows,’ the new book on fighting cyber surveillance threats by Citizen Lab founder and director, Ron Deibert.
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‘Chasing Shadows’: How a Small Civil Society Investigative Team Is Fighting the Growing Cyber Surveillance Threat
A new book by Ron Deibert, Citizen Lab’s founder and director, details how his small investigative team is fighting back against a rapidly growing commercial espionage industry.