Despite sharing certain instincts, investigative journalists have different strengths, weaknesses and characteristics. Some prefer to be left alone, others do their most powerful work when part of a team.
The reporter spent more than 20 years investigating armed conflict, corruption, and spy scandals in print, always trying to avoid the limelight. He had to forgo privacy to take on a new role on national television.
Managing teams in journalism is not easy. You can master what you do, but guiding people is quite a different thing and it requires another set of skills.
In Argentina, investigative reporters are grappling with personal attacks, deteriorating press freedom, and roadblocks when trying to access information, but they refuse to bend or stop their coverage.
In conflict zones, access is rarely secured through official accreditation alone. It is negotiated through local trust, personal relationships, and an understanding of community dynamics.
Investigative outlet Direkt36’s high-risk exposé of the Fidesz party’s secret operation to bring down the opposition party helped unseat Orbán after 16 years of illiberal rule and media capture.
Launched with just a €5,000 loan in 2010 by three journalists in their twenties, this scrappy investigative outlet now plays an outsized role in setting the national news agenda.
At a 2026 Netzwerk Recherche conference panel, participants discussed their struggles and successes working as women and LGBTQ individuals in investigative journalism.
The system built by BBC Eye allowed a team of open source specialists and reporters to accelerate their investigation of Russian ultra nationalists and their political impact.
GIJN talks with the investigative team at JETZT, a new Vienna-based independent newsroom that covers everything from Alpine real estate to Russian espionage.
When RightsCon 2026 in Zambia was abruptly cancelled, the story at its companion World Press Freedom Day conference shifted from panel coverage to a real-time lesson in access and government power.
The latest book from The New Yorker staff writer delves into the life of 19-year-old Zac Brettler, who led a secret double life in London before plunging to his death from an apartment balcony into the River Thames in 2019.
Across the world, independent journalists cover conflict and humanitarian crises, but their work covering traumatic events rarely comes with institutional protection or mental and psychological support.
From “what book is on your bedside table” to the narrative investigative titles we should read this year, these are the books people were talking about at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia.
Founded in 2016, this news site was created to report on issues often ignored or suppressed in state-controlled media, including corruption, misuse of public resources, and human rights violations.
As Hungary heads into a new political era, OCCRP spoke to András Pethö, co-founder of Direkt36, an independent outlet that has published numerous exposés of alleged government corruption.
Africa Uncensored has survived legal threats, intimidation, and politically motivated attacks on its funders to become a prominent force in Kenya’s investigative journalism landscape.
The investigative reporter was writing about sexual harassment years before #MeToo. We get her take on the recent metamorphoses in the country’s information ecosystem.
A look back at a decade of changes after the Pulitzer-Prize winning exposé sent shockwaves through the offshore world, spawning criminal probes and bringing down governments.
British journalist and author Oliver Bullough discusses his new investigative book on global illicit finance — and how to expose money laundering’s growing influence.
Going forward, two major commercial satellite imagery companies will apply a two-week hold on all images in the companies’ image archives.
Carlos Dada delivered the 2026 Reuters Memorial Lecture. As the leader of El Faro, he has edited and published dozens of investigations exposing corruption of governments of all colors.
The commissioning editor of BBC’s Storyville speaks about the making of the documentary, which delves into the pro-Ukraine-war propaganda leaching into Russian schools.
For International Women’s Day, GIJN spoke to three reporters digging into gender-based violence, sexism, and discrimination — and how gendered power dynamics play out in real life.
Russia’s attacks on energy infrastructure, waged during the coldest winter in memory, have pushed Ukrainian journalists to their limits. But still they persevere.
The pipeline we built turned what would have been months of traumatic manual labor into a searchable, analyzable database that allowed investigators to trace patterns, identify victims, and build cases for accountability.
Our yearly compendium of standout audio investigations, reviewed by GIJN’s global team. Featuring stories from Syria, Germany, Bangladesh, Turkey, El Salvador, Canada, the UK, and US.
Marina Adami speaks to Shayan Sardarizadeh, a senior journalist at BBC Verify, about how his team is reporting on Iran in the midst of an internet blackout.
