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 guide is designed to offer a broad array of tools, techniques, and resources to help 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.
This webinar shares methodologies for investigating war and conflict, and provide a briefing on the laws that govern what, in popular usage, are called “war crimes.”
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?
Social Network Analysis (SNA) enables investigative journalists to connect the dots that can lead to groundbreaking revelations and expose deep-seated wrongdoing.
Open source information can be a valuable method of reporting when investigating violations of international humanitarian law or war crimes.
Global internet advertising revenue is forecast to reach $723.6 billion in 2026. Who makes this money and how they go about it is fertile ground for investigative journalists.
Journalists share stories and tips from their investigations into environmental crimes, from deforestation in the Congo to the Beirut port blast.
Jeff Leen, the head of investigations at the Post for the past 20 years, speaks about their latest podcast and how the outlet tackles in-depth stories.
A quick reference guide to reporting on attacks on civilians during armed conflicts as part of investigations into war crimes.
When reporters know how to follow the money, hidden wealth can often be uncovered in real estate, planes, yachts, artwork, and even racehorses.
A unique collaboration between four Nordic public broadcasters sought to uncover the scale of Russian covert spying operations in the region.
Two reporters whose investigative work has exposed systemic land grabbing and illegal mining in the Amazon share their tips.
Historians have always used archival documents to study what happened years, decades, or even centuries ago. But sometimes journalists are the ones digging into the past and uncovering truths that are big enough to “rewrite history.”
Veteran journalists explained how an industry of enablers is supporting a growing group of kleptocracies and mafia states around the world, and that following the money is a great way to track them.
