News & Analysis Press Freedom
‘Foreign Agent’ Law in Bosnia Threatens Independent Media
Journalists and editors from this Balkan nation warn that if the recently passed law survives a legal challenge, it would stifle independent reporting.
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News & Analysis Press Freedom
Chaos and Credibility: A Snapshot of How AI Is Impacting Press Freedom and Investigative Journalism
GIJN offers a snapshot of how watchdog reporters are confronting algorithmic abuses and misinformation while also employing AI as a key newsroom tool.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Reporters Without Borders: Global Press Freedom at Unprecedented, Critical Low
As reporters mark World Press Freedom Day, RSF’s 2025 annual ranking reveals press freedom around the world has fallen to a new, unprecedented low.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Behind the FOI Desk: Using Freedom of Information Laws to Fuel Accountability Stories in Africa
Newsrooms across Africa have established formal, right-to-information help desks that leverage government document requests for public accountability and watchdog reporting.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Editors and Reporters Denounce Bill That Would Upend Investigative Journalism in Peru
A bill currently being proposed in the South American country’s legislature would have a chilling effect, and make in-depth exposés of the powerful virtually impossible.
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.
Press Freedom
The Increasing Threats Against Lawyers Protecting Journalists
At Trust Conference 2024, a panel of experts discussed the growing risks to lawyers who defend watchdog reporters, and what this could mean for the future of our democracies.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Q & A with Roman Anin on Holding Putin to Account, Even in Exile
The founder of IStories talks about moving his entire newsroom abroad for security reasons and the challenges of reporting on Putin’s regime from outside the country.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Challenges of Journalism in Exile: Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba
The exiled Nicaraguan journalist and editor Carlos F. Chamorro explains the critical need to promote and support journalists who are forced to leave their homelands because of their reporting.
Press Freedom Safety & Security
‘Silenced’: Brazilian Investigative Journalist Juliana Dal Piva on Facing Threats from Her Reporting
Brazilian investigative journalist Juliana Dal Piva faced personal and professional ramifications for investigating the powerful.
Investigative Techniques Press Freedom
Mining Social Media and Visiting Morgues to Document Police Violence in Bangladesh
“Our priority was to reveal what the government was trying to hide,” says Zyma Islam about the work of her team in the weeks that changed her country.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
The Perils Facing Investigative Journalism in Ethiopia: Media Capture, Deep Polarization, and Government Oppression
Investigative journalism in Ethiopia — Africa’s second most populous country — currently faces a series of severe challenges.
Legal Defense & Emergency Aid Press Freedom
Six Key Steps to Combating Newsroom SLAPPs: Lessons Learned from Poland, the Balkans, and Beyond
Polish journalist Patrycja Maciejewicz on how SLAPPs have been used Poland, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia & Herzegovina — and how to combat them.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
New Documentary Shows Mexican Journalists Have Nowhere to Turn
The Mexican filmmaker Santiago Maza has a new documentary called “State of Silence,” which explores the perilous situation facing investigative journalists in his home country.
Getting the Story Out Press Freedom
How Georgia Is Following a Russian Legal Blueprint to Suppress Independent Journalism
A proposed “foreign agents” bill in Georgia is viewed by many journalists in the country as part of a coordinated campaign to suppress investigative and independent media.
Document of the Day Press Freedom
2024 World Press Freedom Index: Political Pressure Threatens Journalism in a Key Election Year
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warns that state oppression and political pressure are increasingly threatening journalism around the globe in its 2024 World Press Freedom Index.
Getting the Story Out Press Freedom
How Alexey Navalny Was Inspired by — and Inspired — Investigative Journalism in Russia
Anti-corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny proved that anyone, after investigative training and practice, can expose rights abuse at the highest levels of government.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
How Investigative Site Netra News, Banned in Bangladesh, Is Reporting on the Country from the Outside
Netra News Editor-in-Chief Tasneem Khalil speaks about his experience as a journalist working from exile.
Member Profiles Press Freedom
CENOZO, the Organization Shoring Up Watchdog Reporting in West Africa
GIJN member The Norbert Zongo Cell for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO) strives to promote journalism in the public interest.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Surge of Violence in Ecuador Threatens Accountability Journalism
The investigative reporter Paúl Mena Mena speaks about the worsening security crisis in Ecuador.
Inside GIJN Press Freedom
GIJN Response to Being Listed as ‘Undesirable’ Organization by Russian Government
GIJN officially protests having been flagged as an “undesirable” organization by the Russian Ministry of Justice.
GIJC23 Legal Defense & Emergency Aid Press Freedom
How Journalists Can Protect Against Slapp Cases and Other Legal Threats
How journalists can identify whether they’ve been hit with a SLAPP suit — and resources for helping journalists fight back.
Press Freedom
Doc of the Day: 2023 Global Impunity Index Calls Out ‘Hard Path to Justice’ for Crimes Against Journalists
According to CPJ, 261 journalists have been murdered in the past 10 years, part of a broader “hard path to justice” where killings of reporters go unpunished.
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GIJC23 – FOIA/RTI Investigations
More than half of the world’s countries have laws that require officials to supply public documents on request. These laws offer valuable windows for reporters, even for those outside of a country’s borders. But there are almost always tricks to targeting and expediting these disclosures, and this panel brings deep experience in how to do […]
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GIJC23 – Investigations to Save Democracy
If there was just one panel to attend at GIJC23, this might be it. We’re witnessing a global assault on democratic institutions and a sustained global decline in democracies. Investigative journalism, in partnership with civil society, has emerged as a last line of defense for human rights and democratic principles in countries around the world — even where we thought we were secure. This panel features giants in the push-back against fascism and authoritarianism. We have an extraordinary lineup — Lina Attalah, Vinod Jose, and David Cay Johnston. — who will offer inspiration and tools to fight for a free and accountable future.
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GIJC23 – Plenary: Watchdog Journalism in the Age of Digital Subversion (Panel)
Following Ron Deibert’s keynote, we have an all-star panel of journalists on the front lines of the digital war being waged against watchdog media. Moderator Sheila Coronel will lead an hour-long discussion about what it’s like to have your newsroom invaded, your sources exposed, and your actions tracked every day. We’ve asked noted journalists from […]
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GIJC23 – 40 Years of Cross-Border Muckraking: Where It All Began
Today, we take for granted large-scale, collaborative cross-border investigative reporting. Not only at the global scale, but across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, networks of investigative journalists have made the extraordinary almost routine. But this relatively new field has deep roots, going back to a series of little-known meetings in the 1980s, […]
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GIJC23 – Fighting Back Against SLAPPs & Other Legal Threats
Journalists are facing a worldwide legal assault from a growing arsenal of abused laws, from national security and emergency edicts to libel and privacy statutes. Harassment lawsuits, while always a threat, have mushroomed in use by the rich and powerful to silence watchdog reporting. SLAPP suits (“strategic lawsuits against public participation”), are one variant and […]