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Guide to Investigating Organized Crime in the Golden Triangle: Chapter 4 — Human Trafficking
GIJN’s guide to investigating organized crime in Asia’s Golden Triangle. This chapter focuses on human trafficking in the regio
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My Favorite Tools: How Rafael Soares Investigates Police Killings in Rio
Brazilian journalist Rafael Soares discusses his favorite reporting methods and tools for investigating police misconduct and abuse of power in Rio de Janeiro.
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Answering 6 Common Questions Journalists Have about Mastodon
A growing number of journalists and media organizations have established a presence on Mastodon. GIJN’s social media editor Holly Pate answers some common questions about the platform.
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6 Ways the Internet of Things Poses Security Threats to Journalists
The Internet of Things can pose many threats to journalists — at home, in the office, and in the field. To help us understand them, a cybersecurity researcher examines these threats across several categories along with real-world examples.
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How Using Virtual and Augmented Reality Helps Local Journalists Cover Syria
Two local journalists from Syria have begun using virtual and augmented reality to bring immersive reporting experiences to news audiences far outside their country.
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5 Online Search Tools to Make Journalists’ Lives Easier
Internet search expert and author Tara Calishain used JavaScript to create a collection of tools that save time for journalists conducting research. Here, she explains how to use them.
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Tips for Using Flourish to Visualize Elections Data
In Flourish’s recent webinar on effective elections and polling visualization, data journalist Mafe Callejón shared essential tips for building an interactive map from election results.
Methodology Reporting Tools & Tips
Using Telegram Chats to Reveal Life in Bucha Under Russian Occupation
How reporters at OCCRP took a neighborhood Telegram chat from Bucha, Ukraine and turned it into an investigation of life under Russian occupation.
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Investigating Rainforest Destruction: Finding Illegal Airstrips Using Machine Learning
Rainforest Investigations Network fellow Hyury Potter used data reporting and machine learning to investigate the link between clandestine airstrips and illegal mining in the Brazilian Amazon during the past two years.
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4 Tips for Avoiding Math Errors When Reporting
Many people get ‘percent change’ and ‘percentage-point change’ confused. This tipsheet on reporting with math features insights from data journalism pioneer Jennifer LaFleur.
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How The New Humanitarian Used WhatsApp to Cover Lebanon’s Economic Collapse
In this interview, two reporters discuss how they used WhatsApp messages to explore and investigate the effects of Lebanon’s economic collapse on people across the country.
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Simple Tips for Verifying if a Tweet Screenshot Is Real or Fake
Shayan Sardarizadeh, a reporter who covers online misinformation for BBC Monitoring, offers several tips for verifying or debunking suspect Twitter screenshots.
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10 Things You Should Know About AI in Journalism
Mattia Peretti, manager of JournalismAI at the London School of Economics, discusses the 10 things reporters should know about how artificial intelligence can impact journalism.
Human Trafficking Organized Crime Reporting Tools & Tips
Best Practices for Staying Safe While Investigating Human Trafficking
At a JournalismFund.eu webinar, journalists Annie Kelly and Ian Urbina spoke of their experiences documenting human trafficking around the world.
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8 Investigative Journalists Share their Favorite Reporting Tools
Eight investigative reporters share their current favorite tools and apps, for tasks ranging from social media search to locating prisoners, tracking the global supply chain, and uncovering Russian military recruiters.
News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
Q & A: How a Reporter Uncovered the US Military Burn Pits Scandal
The reporter who first broke open the US military burn pits scandal and its hazardous environmental impact on veterans discusses how she reported the story and tracked its evolution to the halls of the US Congress.
Methodology Reporting Tools & Tips
New Technology and Online Resources to Conduct Investigations With Old Photos
Bellingcat’s Foeke Postma offers tips and tools for using new technology and online resources to investigate old photographs.
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Investigating Toxic Military Bases and Their Links to Cancer
Rare cancers among military veterans are increasingly linked to earlier chemical dumping and burn pits at old bases. In this piece, three Associated Press reporters share tips on exposing these links, based on their year-long investigation into a former US military base.
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How to Land — and ‘Nail’ — the Accountability Interview: Tips from Recent Investigations
Officials and executives who are under intense scrutiny often dodge interviews with journalists. Here, four veteran investigative reporters share tips on how to land and ‘nail’ tough accountability interviews, based on experiences from their recent investigative projects.
Data Journalism Reporting Tools & Tips
Supercharge your Environmental Investigative Stories with Data and Visuals
At the Pulitzer Center’s recent environmental investigative conference, Interconnected: Reporting the Climate Crisis, a panel of environmental reporters and designers explained how data and visualization can make environmental stories compelling.
Case Studies Reporting Tools & Tips
9 Watchdog Reporters and Lessons Learned from Their Mistakes
GIJN asked a diverse group of nine investigative reporters to share a memorable misstep they’ve made in an investigative project, and a key lesson learned from the mistake.
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GIJN’s Guide to Undercover Reporting
In countries without public record transparency rules or strong source protection laws, going undercover can be one of the few tools reporters have to reveal public interest stories.
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Tips for Investigating Football and the World Cup in Qatar
In this review of a recent GIJN webinar on investigating professional football, two senior journalists and a whistleblower discuss advice and tips for covering possible corruption and labor abuses tied to the upcoming 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Case Studies Reporting Tools & Tips
Aftenposten’s Housing Scandal Series Shook Norwegian Politics to Its Core
Aftenposten’s blockbuster investigative series uncovered widespread misconduct and tax evasion among Norway’s leading politicians, and was recognized with SKUP’s top award for investigative reporting.
Data Journalism Reporting Tools & Tips
5 Things Journalists Need to Know About Statistical Significance
This tipsheet helps journalists avoid some of the most common errors related to statistcal significance in academic studies, which even trained researchers sometimes make.
Methodology Reporting Tools & Tips
Q & A: Investigating TikTok Content Across the Russia-Ukraine Border
To investigate what the Russian invasion looked like to TikTok users in Russia and Ukraine, and how the content available differed from one side of the border to the other, a team of journalists from the Norwegian broadcasting company NRK set out to investigate the social networking site’s algorithms and how a user’s location provides differing digital narratives about the war.
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GIJN’s Guide to Investigating Sea Level Rise
For journalists, explaining the causes and consequences of rising sea levels is a critical and challenging assignment.
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Tips for Optimizing Google Search in Investigations, from Online Expert Henk van Ess
At a recent GIJN online workshop, open source research expert Henk van Ess offered key tips and techniques for optimizing the use of Google search in your investigations.