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A report by Drew Sullivan — a journalist, editor, and media development specialist with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project — is generating buzz on the GIJ listserv and is essential reading for journalists worldwide. Sullivan’s report , written for the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), explains how lawsuits can force media organizations […]

13. oktober 2010 17:06 [This is the first of a new GIJN feature on investigative techniques.] By Nils Mulvad Crowdsourcing is normally regarded as defined in 2006. Jeff Howe is often credited with the term “crowdsourcing” in a Wired article of June 2006, entitled “The Rise of Crowd sourcing”. Wikipedia defines it as: “Crowdsourcing is […]

11. oktober 2010 22:01 The China Media Project has published “Investigative Journalism in China,” which is available from Amazon.com It has an introduction by veteran investigative journalist Ying Chan,who is at the Journalism and Media Studies Center at Hong Kong University. Here is the editors’ summary of the book: “Despite persistent pressure from state censors […]

4 November 2010 Johannesburg: The regional Media Programme of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) in South Africa announces the website launch of the Investigative Journalism Manual (IJM). http://investigative-journalism-africa.info investigative-journalism-africa.com ijm-africa.com ijm-africa.co.za investigative.co.za The manual is unique in that it is a training kit, while at the same time serving as a general source of information. […]

Submitted by globadmin on Tue, 2010-01-26 18:12 A series of Investigative Journalism Manuals, conceptualised and produced by FAIR in partnership with the University of the Witwatersrand and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, have been placed online at the FAIR website www.fairreporters.org/home. The ‘IJ Manuals’ are tailor-made to assist investigative journalists who operate in Africa or in […]