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How a Purported Fact-Checking Site Spreads Russian Propaganda
A website and Telegram channel operated from Russia falsely claims to be a fact-checking site and, in fact, is repeatedly pushing out Russian disinformation about the war.
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Q & A: How a Reporter Uncovered the US Military Burn Pits Scandal
The reporter who first broke open the US military burn pits scandal and its hazardous environmental impact on veterans discusses how she reported the story and tracked its evolution to the halls of the US Congress.
Case Studies News & Analysis
How Two Forensic Teams Investigated the Killing of Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
In our latest GIJN webinar, members of forensic investigation teams from Bellingcat and The Washington Post explained how they analyzed the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot in the West Bank city of Jenin in May.
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Marcela Turati on a Career Spent Investigating Mexico’s Crisis of Missing People
Journalist Marcela Turati has spent years investigating who is responsible for the thousands of people who have gone missing in Mexico. She spoke to Revista 5W magazine about her work, the dangers of investigating corruption in the country, and why it is so difficult to try and track down who is behind violent crimes against journalists and migrants.
Case Studies News & Analysis
The Challenges Facing Student Investigative Journalists: Censorship, Legal Intimidation, Lack of Funding, and Even Violent Physical Attacks
While there are plenty of examples of student investigative reporters who are supported by their institutions, there are many others who face a lack of cooperation, low pay, legal threats, funding issues, and even physical harm.
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Award-Winning African Journalists Discuss Their Investigative Reporting Challenges
Investigative journalists work tirelessly to get the truth and ensure that the public is informed on topics that are of public interest. Jamlab interviewed nine African investigative journalists to talk about their experiences of reporting in their respective countries.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Understanding the Impact of Journalism Inside Authoritarian Regimes
Conditions for journalists in authoritarian countries are challenging and often dangerous. In light of these challenges, journalists and donors need to widen their understanding of the less traditional ways journalism generates impact.
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Abraji: 20 Years Fighting for Investigative Journalists and Journalism in Brazil
Since its inception 20 years ago, the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) has remained faithful to its founding principles: professional training, defense of freedom of expression, and the right of access to public information.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
‘Picking Up Pens was a Revolutionary Act’: Telling the Stories of Marginalized, Rural Women in India
Meera Jatav, the co-founder of the award-winning, grassroots feminist media organization Khabar Lahariya, has won admiration for her courageous investigations into gender-based violence and caste in India. Here is the keynote speech she delivered at the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s summer conference in London.
Methodology News & Analysis
5 Takeaways from an Award-Winning Interactive Exposé of a Miami Condo Collapse
The Miami Herald’s award-winning House of Cards investigation of the Champlain Towers South collapse used a dynamic, multimedia scrollytelling format to take readers inside the causes of a deadly construction tragedy.
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Who Was Behind the Killing of Sri Lankan Journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge?
The renowned Sri Lankan journalist was driving to his office when motorcycle riders stopped his car and bludgeoned him to death in broad daylight on the streets of Colombo in 2009. Now, a former detective who ran an official probe into the attack has given new testimony, raising questions about who may have been complicit in the killing.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Data Journalism Top 10: Abortion Ban Burdens, China Surveillance, Heat Wave Threats, and Russia’s Degraded Army
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism looks at the impact of the Dobbs US Supreme Court ruling on travel time for women seeking an abortion in the US, China’s intensifying surveillance on its population, the impact of heat waves on fragile populations in Germany, the state of the Russian army after four months of war, and the gender inequity in speeches in the Zurich Parliament.
News & Analysis Research
Tracking Environmental Crimes During the War in Ukraine
Amid Ukraine’s whole-of-society wartime reorganization, experts and activists are using their skills to track the impact of the conflict on the country’s national parks and biospheres and to document possible environmental war crimes.
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Gina Chua on How to Reach Underserved Communities: Journalism For – Not About – Them
Gina Chua’s keynote address to the IRE22 conference in Denver, in the US, emphasized how rebuilding public trust in investigative journalism requires a diverse workforce that truly represents and engages with the communities it serves.
Methodology News & Analysis
9 Tips for Investigative Journalists to Improve Their Writing
From respecting that different journalists have different styles of reporting to using voices from the field to tell the story, and from keeping it simple with clear language to just ‘getting started,’ here are tips from two experienced reporters for the write-up stage of an investigation.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Data Journalism Top 10: Child Detentions at US Border, Slave Journeys, Aztec Iconography, Facebook’s ‘Broken Promises’
This week, our DDJ Top 10 looks at The Marshall Project’s analysis of child detention at the US border, the Baltimore Banner’s in-depth story on the city’s vacant housing crisis. Plus, we dive into stories using historical data to investigate how slavery broke apart families, a flight analysis on the new destinations of the Russian elite, and a look at Facebook’s “broken promises.”
Case Studies News & Analysis
From Source to Table: How Journalists Are Investigating Food Stories Worldwide
While food is often covered from a cultural lens, it is increasingly garnering the attention of investigative journalists, who are bringing new scrutiny to the environmental impacts of supply chains, labor conditions, and political influence linked to food.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Asia’s SOPA Awards Honor Stories on Fishing Crimes, Uzbek Taxpayer Abuses, and COVID Data Obstruction
Winners of the prestigious 2022 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards were recently announced in Hong Kong, in a gala event that recognized innovative data and investigative journalism as well as the courage of reporters working in Asia’s rising climate of censorship and media repression.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Data Journalism Top 10: Black Sea Blockade, Yemen Airstrikes, Hong Kong Shoebox Housing, Space Garbage
This week, GIJN’s roundup of the best in data journalism features an analysis of the impact of Russia’s Black Sea blockade on the global food chain, a deep dive into the US military’s role in aiding Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen, and a look at how different forms of inequality affect the lives of residents in Brussels, Belgium.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Pulitzer Center Climate Conference Attendees Call for Action
Attendees at the Pulitzer Center’s climate change reporting summit held up posters and spoke out to raise awareness about the disappearance of journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, who went missing in the Amazon rainforest. A suspect has since confessed to killing the men, and two bodies thought to be them have been found, according to media reports.
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How Collaboration Enables Transcendent, World-Changing Journalism
The Pulitzer Center’s Marina Walker Guevara sees collaboration as one of the most significant paradigm changes in journalism of the past 50 years. In a keynote speech at the Collaborative Journalism Summit, she said that by working together, reporters can investigate stories that “transcend us, transcend our competitive instincts, our newsrooms’ politics, and our own egos.”
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Data Journalism Top 10: Global Food Crisis, Radiotherapy Access, Costs of Breastfeeding, TikTok Impact
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism looks at the impact of the Ukraine war on the food prices around the world, inequality in radiotherapy access in Spain, the cost of breastfeeding for women, how going viral on TikTok can bring career success, and the places Germans can go for €9.
News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
10 Tips for Using Geolocation and Open Source Data to Fuel Investigations
Speaking at IJF22, Centre for Information Resilience investigations director Ben Strick offered 10 tips for integrating geolocation and open source data in investigative journalism.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Data Journalism Top 10: Gun Violence, Xinjiang Police Files, Therapy Wait Times, Russian War Looting
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism column looks at schools shootings in the US, the faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps, heat records in the US, migrants at the Polish-Belarus border, the parcels sent by the Russian troops back home or the suicide toll in European jails.
Methodology News & Analysis
How the NYT’s Pulitzer-Winning Series Exposed Civilian Deaths in the Air War on ISIS
To get a behind-the-scenes look at The New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the civilian death toll of US airstrikes, GIJN interviewed two key members of the reporting team: Christoph Koettl, a member of the Times’ visual Investigations team, and the series’ lead reporter, Azmat Khan.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Data Journalism Top 10: Haiti’s Lost Billions, COVID’s Death Toll, Asia’s Inequality, Broken Adoptions
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism column looks at a historical investigation into Haiti’s lost billions, visualizing COVID’s US death toll, and Asia’s growing wealth inequality.
Case Studies News & Analysis
Investigating the ‘Toxic Legacy’ of Abandoned Oil Wells
In a recent Q+A, environmental reporter Mark Olalde discussed a collaborative investigation on the impact of abandoned oil wells and other extractive industry infrastructure on nearby communities. The investigation won second place in the investigative reporting category at the awards of the Society of Environmental Journalists.
How They Did It News & Analysis
How They Did It: Covering One of the World’s Most Dangerous Border Crossings
Every year thousands of migrants cross one of the most dangerous borders in the world: the Darién Gap, a magnificent but deadly rainforest that connects Colombia and Panama. GIJN spoke to a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, and one of her teammates, who trekked through the jungle to investigate what happens en route.