News & Analysis
Google News Initiative Grants in Africa and the Middle East Yield Mixed Results
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A study found many Google News Initiative projects in Middle East and Africa struggle to become more than makeshift versions of the original idea.
GIJN
GIJN Names Emilia Díaz-Struck as New Executive Director
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Award-winning journalist Emilia Díaz-Struck has been named the incoming executive director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, an association of more than 240 investigative journalism nonprofits throughout the world. Díaz-Struck will join GIJN as editor-at-large in mid-August, and then become executive director in September at the biennial conference of the network in Gothenburg, Sweden, September 19- 22.
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GIJN Marks Its 20th Anniversary
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Hey, everyone… It’s GIJN’s anniversary! Twenty years ago, a band of nonprofits came together to form a network to support investigative and data journalism around the world. This was at the second Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Copenhagen, back in 2003. Since then — thanks to you — our growth has surprised even us.
GIJC23
2023 Global Investigative Journalism Conference: The Program
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Here’s an early look at the schedule for the 2023 Global Investigative Journalism Conference, where we expect a record 2,000 journalists from more than 110 countries to join us in Gothenburg, Sweden. The conference takes place Sept. 19-22.
Africa
Investigative Journalism in Africa: A Book From the Frontlines
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The award-winning Ghanaian journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni says there are a series of challenges that investigative reporters in Africa must confront during the course of their work. Read about the difficulty of getting accurate data, the challenges of impunity, funding issues, and press freedom challenges in this excerpt from his new book.
10 Questions
Lessons and Advice from Nigerian Investigative Journalist Taiwo Hassan Adebayo
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Hassan Adebayo has built a storied career at the Premium Times, leading investigations into terrorism and violent extremism, corruption, and financial crime.
News & Analysis
Travel Woes: The Challenges Investigative Reporters Face When Crossing Borders
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In an era where corruption, financial crime, and illicit trade routinely span the globe, so too must the investigations that uncover them. But one of the least discussed and often unexpected obstacles in that pursuit involves the difficulties investigative journalists can face when traveling and physically crossing borders.
journalism ethics
Is It Ever OK for Journalists to Lie to Get a Story?
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In a new book on undercover reporting, Australian journalism professors Andrea Carson and Denis Muller examine whether deception is ever an acceptable method for journalists to use.
Tools & Techniques
How to Reach Hard-to-Access Stories — and Audiences — with Audio
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At the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, veteran journalists from Africa and the Middle East discussed the power and intimacy of audio and podcast reporting and how it can enable reporters to better access hard-to-cover stories.
Tools & Techniques
Four Quick Ways to Verify Images on a Smartphone
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GIJN has updated our popular step-by-step guide on verifying images to help find out whether the photo you saw on social media is the real thing. Try out some simple-to-use free tools — including TinEye, Google Reverse Image Search, Photo Sherlock, and Fake Image Detector — to check the source of a picture and whether it has been manipulated.