GIJN’s Top Tipsheets

GIJN’s free online Resource Center is used by journalists in 100 countries per day in 13 languages. With more than a thousand tip sheets, videos, and reporting guides, the Center has become an invaluable resource for journalists embarking on stories worldwide. Here are our most popular tipsheets. You can also find our longer reporting guides here.

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Local Impacts of International Trade
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Tips for Investigating Suspicious Real Estate Deals in France — and Around the World
What Washington is Doing in Your Country
War Crimes
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Refugee Issues
Building a Database
Journalism Security Assessment Tool (JSAT)
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Afghanistan: How to Help Journalists and Others at Risk
Image Verification
The Roots of Disinformation
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US Election
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Drone Journalism
Reporter Writing in Notebook
Editing and Managing
Fact-Checking & Verification
Finding Expert Sources
Interviewing Techniques
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Inequality
Tools & Techniques
Mobile Journalism
Wayback Machine
Online Advanced Search
Online Research Tools
Photography & Investigative Journalism
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Podcast
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Reporting in Autocracies
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Spyware
Tracking Far-Right Groups
Video Forensics
Video Verification
Whistleblowing