Global Investigative Journalism Network

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Research

Climate Change Reporting and Mental Health: Practical Tips for Newsrooms and Journalists

by Alexa van Sickle • June 11, 2025

In a recent Reuters Institute webinar, experts discussed the latest research into the impact of climate reporting on journalists’ mental health.

A 2022 demonstration in Mexico City protesting the federal government's lack of transparency about the killing of 43 students from the village of Ayotzinapa. Image: Shuttersock,

News & Analysis Research

Mexico’s Transparency Institute Helped Reporters Uncover Corruption and Wrongdoing: How Will Investigation Journalism Fare Once It’s Gone?

by Priscila Cárdenas • May 23, 2025

For decades, the work of INAI helped investigative reporters uncover hidden truths. They fear its abolition will hinder exposés on corruption and human rights abuses.

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Resource Tipsheet

Tipsheet: How Journalists Can Use a UN Process to Evaluate National Human Rights Records

The UN process for evaluating national human rights records is long and complex, but offers valuable material for journalists.

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Reporting Tools & Tips Research

How Planespotter and Other Transportation Enthusiast Sites Can Unlock Investigations

by Rowan Philp • March 18, 2025

At NICAR25, data reporters detailed how amateur transportation enthusiasts are a valuable, media-friendly, and underused source of critical tips and information for investigations.

Deleted CDC website on the risk factors for diabetes for LGBTQ people.

Databases Research

Here’s a List of Non-Governmental Data Alternatives and Archives

by Naseem Miller, The Journalist's Resource • February 28, 2025

To help data journalists with their reporting, here is a curated list of non-government websites and archives that preserve or maintain public health data.

Global Academy Academic Papers

GIJC25 Academic Papers

14 papers

Coded Injustice: Surveillance and Discrimination in Denmark's Automated Welfare State

How They Did It Research

How We Did It: Amnesty International’s Investigation of Algorithms in Denmark’s Welfare System

by Hellen Mukiri-Smith, Hajira Maryam, and David Nolan, Amnesty Tech • November 14, 2024

Amnesty Tech’s Algorithmic Accountability Lab led a sweeping probe into possible algorithmic bias and mass surveillance by Denmark’s welfare agency.

Land deed from April 1, 1865, at the end of the Civil War, granting ex-slave Richard Brown the right to take possession of and occupy 40 acres of land, situated in St. Andrews Parish, South Carolina. Image: US National Archives, Freedmen's Bureau

Methodology Research

How We Uncovered the True Story of 40 Acres and a Mule

by Alexia Fernández Campbell, Mother Jones • October 2, 2024

Behind-the-scenes of an investigation into a program that gave formerly enslaved people in the US land titles after the Civil War — and then revoked them.

Climate Research

Investigating How Conflict and War Contribute to Methane Emissions

by Wim Zwijnenburg • September 30, 2024

New remote sensing techniques are enabling researchers to monitor how armed conflict can be a driver of greenhouse gas emissions like methane.

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Reporting Tools & Tips Research

Seven Deadly Sins of Bad Open Source Research

by Tristan Lee, Kolina Koltai, & Giancarlo Fiorella, Bellingcat • September 13, 2024

Three experts dig into common open source errors that they’ve encountered to help other online investigators improve the quality of their work.

Reporting Tools & Tips Research

Exposing the Money Behind Environmental Destruction, Part II: Investigating Investors

by Jelter Meers and Madeleine Ngeunga, Pulitzer Center • September 9, 2024

In this installment of a Pulitzer Center series, reporters Jelter Meers and Madeleine Ngeunga reveal tactics in investigating the financial incentives fueling environmental damage.

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Tipsheet Reporting Tools & Tips Research

Toolkit: How to Investigate Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing

by Fernandan Buffa and Alexandra Waddell • June 13, 2024

A Pulitzer Center toolkit for illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, which impacts marine ecosystems, coastal communities, food security, and human rights.

Ranchland South Dakota stolen Indigenous land

Investigative Techniques Research

‘The Cost of Free Land’: Investigating a Personal and National Legacy of Indigenous Land Theft

by Alexa van Sickle • June 11, 2024

Rebecca Clarren’s investigative history grapples with her immigrant family’s success at the expense of their Indigenous neighbors.

Resource Database

Resources on Corruption

Featuring tools from OCCRP and Transparency International, plus the OpenCorporates database, this list contains key resources for reporters investigating corruption.

Resource Database

Resources on Poverty

With official data from the UN, an online analysis tool for measuring global poverty from the World Bank, and statistics from charities and NGOs.

Resource Database

Resources on Terrorism

Read more about the Global Terrorism Index, and explore maps, databases, academic journals, plus the list of US-designated terror and militant groups.

Resource Database

Resources on Crime

From Interpol to the UNODC, and from the US State Department to academic and civil society organizations, here are resources for reporters on the crime beat.

Resource Database

Database for Carbon Offset Reporting

This database includes key resources, watchdog groups, and case studies for investigating the carbon offsets market.

Resource Database

Resources on Health and Medicine

Listing expert sources, databases, health maps and more from the World Health Organization, United Nations, Eurostat, and other international bodies monitoring global health.