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Watch the Oscar-Nominated Feature Documentaries
The nominees for the best feature documentaries for the Academy Awards include powerful films from Syria, Brazil, North Macedonia and the United States. Here’s a brief introduction.
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The Friday 5: What Investigative Journalists Are Reading This Week
Each day, GIJN editors scan the web for the latest news on investigative and data journalism, reports and analysis on sustainability and innovation in journalism, as well as tips and tools which support the craft. Our new weekly series rounds up some of our favorites from around the web. Here’s what we’re reading this week.
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What Investigative Journalism Will Look Like in 2020
GIJN asked investigative journalists around the world to look ahead at what’s in store for 2020. Here are the trends, key forces, and challenges they expect will affect investigative and data journalism in the coming year, as well as the new skills and approaches we should be thinking about.
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In Benin, Journalist Sentenced to 18 Months for Publishing 3 Tweets
Investigative journalist Ignace Sossou was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $338 for “harassment ” by a court in Benin. His crime? Sossou posted three tweets quoting the country’s public prosecutor, who had been speaking candidly about digital regulations.
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The 15 Most Influential Journalism Stories in US History
Historian and journalist Daniel Strieff has compiled a list of the most influential news stories in US history. Among them, investigations that deeply affected the country, from The Jungle to Watergate — but also lots of lesser-known stories.
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Editor’s Pick: 2019’s Best Investigative Stories in Arabic
As part of the GIJN Editor’s Pick series for 2019, here are some of the best works of investigative journalism from the MENA region, as selected by GIJN’s Arabic Editor Majdolin Hasan.
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Editor’s Pick: 2019’s Best Investigative Stories from the Bangla-Speaking Region
In a very difficult year for journalism, newsrooms around the Bangla-speaking region have produced significant investigations to reveal and expose modern day slavery, corruption, abuse of public funds, and more.
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A Global Tour of 2019’s Top Investigative Podcasts
Compiling a list of the best investigative podcasts of 2019 may well be an impossible task. In the five years since Serial became a break-out hit, an avalanche of investigative podcasts has followed — and no, not all of them about true crime — with more coming out every year. With that in mind, here are just some of the most interesting investigative podcasts that aired in 2019.
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Editor’s Pick: 2019’s Best Investigative Stories in Russian and Ukrainian
GIJN in Russian Editor Olga Simanovych focused her selection on stories that used innovative approaches or new tools, or shed light on topics not usually covered.
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Editor’s Pick of 2019: Eight Investigative Stories in Spanish
Instead of recommending “the best” stories of the year, Spanish Editor Catalina Lobo-Guerrero decided to try a different approach with her 2019 selection.
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Women Investigative Journalists on Work and Life
More and more women muckrakers are breaking important stories around the world. But despite increasing numbers and, to a lesser degree, more senior women in the business, there is still a lot to be done to fight inequality and discrimination.
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Editor’s Pick: 2019’s Best Investigative Stories in French
GIJN’s French editor Marthe Rubio selected some of the best investigative stories published in French in 2019, Morocco to Switzerland and from Belgium to Tunisia.
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Document of the Day: The Corruption Expert Accused of Laundering $2.5 Million
US professor Bruce Bagley was frequently quoted by media outlets as an expert on corruption. But according to federal prosecutors, he also put his expertise into practice. They announced that he was arrested on money laundering charges last week.
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ARIJ19: Amid Risks and Attacks, A Record Gathering of Arab Investigative Journalists
Hundreds of Arab and international investigative journalists met in Amman from November 22 to November 24 for the ARIJ19 conference, where they discussed “the role of media in a radicalized world” – a global challenge amidst an explosion of digital tools and widespread online attacks against journalists.
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Intercept Brasil’s Editor Demori on How Journalists Work Amid Attacks
Journalists in Brazil are coming under attack more than ever, both on and offline, says Leandro Demori, executive editor of investigative site The Intercept Brasil. This is happening in a context of increasing political polarization in the country.
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The Growing Global Reach of Chinese and Russian Information Controls
Within the borders of China and Russia, the use of invasive information controls and techniques is well-known and widespread. But the use of these technology systems to suppress citizens’ fundamental human rights goes beyond what is happening inside any one country’s borders. Increasingly, authoritarian actors are exporting these tools and know-how to other countries, a new report finds.
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Citizen Investigators: Tips and Tools for Digging into Your Community
This year, the 11th Global Investigative Journalism Conference opened up to citizen investigators as never before, with a series of workshops and events dedicated to the successes, challenges, and opportunities presented to non-journalists who investigate wrongdoing. Megan Clement wrote about it for GIJN.
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Survival Tips for Nonprofit Newsrooms: Fundraising, Membership, and Sustainable Models
Revenue options for nonprofit newsrooms now include everything from story sales and membership to crowdfunding and even cryptocurrency tokens. But experts say fundraising – for better or worse – remains the foundational key to the survival and growth of nonprofits around the world, writes Rowan Philp for GIJN.
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Nigerian Military Targeted Journalists with Forensic Search for Sources
Journalists for the Daily Trust in Nigeria told the Committee to Protect Journalists that the military conducted forensic searches on their computers and mobile phones following the publication of a story about a military operation. CPJ’s Jonathan Rozen writes that these raids are emblematic of a global trend of law enforcement seizing journalists’ phones and computers — some of their most important tools.
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In Honor of Mexico’s Murdered Journalists
This past week, the Pen Chapter of San Miguel de Allende honored the 16 journalists murdered this year with an offering typical for Día de Muertos celebration in Mexico. In each home, those who have passed away are remembered with an altar, decorated with flowers, candles, objects, and food that those who have passed away liked when they were alive.
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Tips for Freelance Investigators: Finding the Story, Maximizing Earnings, and Managing Your Business
So you’ve spent your own money to report from the field on an investigative story for which you have a modest contract. This is the moment where freelancers have an opportunity to make a true net profit, and gather the nuts for the coming financial winter. Rowan Philp rounded up tips for GIJN on how freelance investigative journalists can seek multiple sales opportunities for every reporting expedition.
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Cabot Prize: Exiled Reporters Track Corruption and Human Rights Abuse in Venezuela
Venezuelan investigative news site Armando.info was recently rewarded with a special mention in the Maria Moors Cabot Prize. In a Q&A with the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, the site’s co-founder Joseph Poliszuk talks about the challenges of continuing their work with part of the team now in exile.
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Journalismfund.eu’s Ides Debruyne: ‘Investigative Journalism is Booming’ in Europe
Journalismfund.eu is an independent nonprofit that promotes cross-border and in-depth journalism in Europe. In this interview, Journalismfund.eu’s Managing Director Ides Debruyne shares his thoughts on “impactful” journalism and why investigative journalism is booming.
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When Autocrats Attack: How Journalists Around the Globe Are Fighting Back
Reporters, especially the most independent, critical, and investigative ones, have long been at the receiving end of autocratic governments’ intolerance of dissent. What’s new is the use of the internet and social media platforms to undermine journalists’ credibility, combined with a more sophisticated application of legal instruments and bureaucratic punitive measures, writes GIJN Spanish Editor Catalina Lobo-Guerrero.
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Full Text: Maria Ressa’s Keynote Speech for #GIJC19
By popular demand, we are publishing the prepared remarks that Rappler’s CEO and executive editor Maria Ressa delivered during a rousing keynote speech at the 11th Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Hamburg.
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How to Dig into Businesses that Prop Up Criminal Networks
Standing in front of every shadowy network of international criminals are legitimate businesses, such as banks and law firms. But these gatekeepers can also provide a way into your story, writes Megan Clement for GIJN.
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Document of the Day: UK Cities Refuse Public Scrutiny of Accounts
When the Bureau of Investigative Journalism asked to see a contract between property developers and the North London borough of Haringey, its reporters were disappointed to receive a heavily-redacted document. This was part of a drive by the UK nonprofit to test the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014, which gives citizens and journalists the right to access the accounts and related documents of city councils and other local authorities.
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Tips on Investigating Disinformation Networks from BuzzFeed’s Craig Silverman
One of the most fundamental parts of investigating disinformation is looking for the network around a social media account or website. Craig Silverman, media editor at BuzzFeed News, offers up some tips and tools on digging in.