News & Analysis
Creating a New Nonprofit Outlet to Investigate Wildlife Crime
With legacy media stepping back from the space, three veteran reporters decided to create a new outlet dedicated to wildlife investigations.
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Resource Tipsheet
Tipsheet: How Journalists Can Use a UN Process to Evaluate National Human Rights Records
The UN process for evaluating national human rights records is long and complex, but offers valuable material for journalists.
News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
Veteran Environmental Journalists Offer Tips on Covering the Second Trump Administration
Covering Trump 2.0 poses stark challenges for news outlets, but many environmental journalists who reported on Trump between 2016 and 2020 can offer perspective.
News & Analysis Sustainability
Donor Interest vs. Editorial Independence: How to Defend Your News Integrity During a Global Funding Crisis
The current funding challenges facing nonprofit media make it more important than ever for newsrooms to “walk the talk” on transparency and to maximize their independence.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
‘A Quest for Evidence’: What Drew Leading Women Data Journalists to the Field
For International Women’s Day we spoke to data journalists from Argentina, Kenya, Sweden, and Turkey to find out why they chose this path and what challenges still remain.
Methodology News & Analysis
Why This Colombian Investigative Reporter Had to Wait Over a Decade to Tell a Story
Ginna Morelo put part of her investigation into Colombian paramilitaries on hold for 13 years to protect her family and sources. She tells how she decided it was finally time to publish.
Databases News & Analysis
A New Digital Archive to Preserve an Investigative Legacy in Central America
The Central American Independent Media Archive (CAIMA) seeks to preserve reporting from threatened or shuttered accountability media sites across the region.
How They Did It News & Analysis
How This Oscar-Nominated Director Turned the Lens on Herself to Investigate the Man Who Sexually Assaulted Her
Journalist Shiori Ito directed the Oscar-nominated documentary ‘Black Box Diaries,’ spending years reporting on her attacker and helping to spark the #MeToo movement in Japan.
Member Profiles News & Analysis
The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation: Continuing the Legacy of a Trailblazing Journalist
In the aftermath of a car bombing that killed one of Malta’s leading investigative reporters, her family set up an organization to fight for justice and ensure her legacy lives on.
News & Analysis Sustainability
The USAID Crisis and Funding the Future of Independent Media
Across the investigative journalism community, GIJN has heard uniform voices of solidarity, and numerous creative strategies for surviving this fundraising crisis.
Member Profiles News & Analysis
‘Dogged and Systematic:’ How the Investigative Reporting Lab Covers Corruption and Governance in North Macedonia
The nonprofit newsroom — whose founders and senior leadership are all women — has taken a innovative, youth-focused approach to covering corruption.
News & Analysis
From Audience to Community: An Alternative Future for Watchdog Journalism
Media organizations should focus on serving specific communities with shared interests and values rather than trying to reach “everyone.”
How They Did It News & Analysis
How ‘Underestimated’ Journalists Exposed the Massive UK Post Office Scandal
The UK’s Post Office scandal saw hundreds of people wrongly prosecuted. For over a decade, investigative journalists from small outlets plugged away to uncover the truth.
How They Did It News & Analysis
How One Reporter Unravelled the Mystery Behind a Field of Starving Horses in Argentina
GIJN spoke to the author of a 2024 Gabo Award-winning investigation into the case of 700 horses found abandoned in a field outside Buenos Aires.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
How Salvadoran Journalists Fight for Public Information Despite Increasing Obstruction
In El Salvador, the government has increasingly failed to honor public access to Information laws, forcing journalists to obtain data through other channels to hold power to account.
News & Analysis
There Has Never Been a Better Time for Environmental Journalism
The press in the US faces daunting challenges with the return of President Donald Trump, but holding his administration accountable makes environmental journalism that much more vital.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
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.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
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.
News & Analysis
Documents Found After the Fall of Assad Show Syrian Intelligence Spying on Journalists
Files discovered at Syria’s intelligence directorate after the fall of the Assad regime detail an operation to surveil and investigate SIRAJ, a Syrian journalist collective.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
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.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
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.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
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.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
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.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
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.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
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.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
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.
Data Journalism Top 10 Editor's Picks News & Analysis
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.
Editor's Picks News & Analysis
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.