At the recent International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ), one workshop offered suggestions on how journalists and media outlets can better use YouTube in their election coverage.
Taiwan’s recent experience during its 2024 election cycle offers useful lessons for journalists and democracy defenders elsewhere — as well as some much-needed hope.
Four reporters share how they investigated extreme abuses of power at Mississippi sheriff’s offices and offer tips to help other journalists do similar work.
New sources have emerged that can help investigative journalists hold to account those responsible for emitting methane gas, a major cause of global warming.
Environmental journalists should check out the new database tool Spill Tracker, but should also bookmark these other resources for reporting on hazmat events.
At a recent panel at the 2024 NICAR conference, Karrie Kehoe, deputy head of data and research at ICIJ, offered a series of tips for investigating the true owners of shell companies.
Investigations into what happens on, under, and around the ocean can often be answered thanks to the vast amount of data available online.
There can be confusion among journalists about “mass shootings” data, which leads to wildly different numbers and deeper confusion among audiences.
GIJN highlights some new, free investigative tools on fact checking, topic briefing, and journalist privacy that were the subject of significant interest in the hallways at the 2024 NICAR conference.
GIJN’s global team spoke with women investigative journalists about their election coverage best practices.
Experts agree that AI-driven audio deepfakes could pose a significant threat to democracy and fair elections in 2024.
Open source experts are faced with torrents of graphic visuals. So how can journalists protect themselves against harm from incessantly viewing traumatic imagery?
Featuring overlooked election-digging strategies, go-to open source tools, and a technique for identifying the individuals behind dangerous or hateful campaign sites.
Featuring a broad array of tools, techniques, and resources to help watchdog reporters dig into almost any campaign or election.
This GIJN guide is designed to offer a broad array of tools, techniques, and resources to help watchdog reporters dig into almost any election or political campaign.
Covering rules and technical trends, such as how voting procedures are changing in different regions and how to spot evidence of foreign interference.
Featuring tools to unearth candidates’ campaign finance histories; tips to connect with key sources; and resources to find hidden assets and red flags.
Containing tips for tracking political conversations, campaign advertisements, and disinformation narratives online.
Tips from three experts who have covered research misconduct or have hands-on experience monitoring or detecting it.
A guide to some US government data sources that can help foreign and US journalists covering US wars, arms sales, and the impact of US foreign policy.
People with disabilities are the largest intersectional minority group, according to the UN, and virtually every reporting beat has a disability angle.
This resource was last updated in 2023 by GIJN’s Toby McIntosh and Emily O’Sullivan. Investigative journalists play a crucial role in holding corporations to account, and have revealed labor abuses, environmental violations, corporate impunity and other instances of malpractice through deep-dives into companies and their owners. However, government records on corporations often reveal only the […]
Based on a leaked trove of briefing documents, this exposé revealed the COP28 host country’s plan to push for lucrative oil and gas deals at the world’s premier climate change conference.
How can journalists use data without reducing the murder of women to crime statistics, and produce a narrative that humanizes without sensationalizing?
Investigative journalists often face the challenge of reviewing and combining large documents or data in text forms. This can be very exhausting and labor intensive.
The use of hacked data is an ethical challenge for investigative journalists. But responsible use of this information can lead to public interest revelations that would otherwise stay hidden.
Having flagged the top tips at NICAR23, IRE23, and GIJC23 in Sweden, GIJN offers the following 10 user-friendly tools that you might consider in your next investigations.
Many reporters rely on FOIA requests and RTI legislation for their investigations. But how do you take these requests to the next level?
