Editor's Pick
Editor’s Pick: 2022’s Best Investigative Stories about China and Taiwan
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GIJN presents our editor’s picks for the best investigative journalism stories from China and Taiwan during 2022.
Editor's Pick
Editor’s Pick: 2022’s Best Investigative Stories in German
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Some of the most notable stories in German-language journalism this year revealed that many good guys in public life were, as it turned out, not so good. The following stories examine public figures from sports, the media, and far-right networks, and also show how big players — such as sportswear behemoth Nike, the fintech company Wirecard, or multinational energy giant RWE — behave when they think nobody’s watching.
Tools & Techniques
How Using Virtual and Augmented Reality Helps Local Journalists Cover Syria
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Two local journalists from Syria have begun using virtual and augmented reality to bring immersive reporting experiences to news audiences far outside their country.
Elections Guide
Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters: Introduction
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With key elections scheduled in numerous countries around the world in 2022, this new GIJN guide is designed to offer a broad array of tools, techniques, and resources to help watchdog reporters dig into almost any campaign, candidate, or election abuse.
Editor's Pick
A Curated List of GIJN’s Top Stories from 2022
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In 2022, many of GIJN’s original stories focused on reporting techniques relevant to global threats that grew or emerged this year — including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, democratic decline, growth of far-right populism, the challenge of accountability journalism in the Arabian Gulf, abuse of migrants and minorities, and the exiling, assault, and legal harassment of independent media.
Tools & Techniques
Investigating Rainforest Destruction: Finding Illegal Airstrips Using Machine Learning
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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.
How They Did It
How They Did It: Uncovering a Vast Network of Illegal Mining in Venezuela
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GIJN Spanish associate editor Mariel Lozada offers a behind-the-scenes look at a reporting collaboration that uncovers the vast scale of illegal mining and illicit smuggling in Venezuela’s Amazon region.
How They Did It
Uncovering a Plagiarism Scandal Among the Romanian Elite
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Emilia Șercan has spent the last seven years writing dozens of investigations about alleged plagiarism and academic fraud in the doctorates of Romania’s elites. Her investigations have found evidence of copying from famous authors and other students’ in the work of the current Romanian prime minister as well as the ministers of defense, health, and education, a number of university rectors, police chiefs and army generals, prosecutors, and judges.
How They Did It
How an Award-Winning, Cross-Border Project Investigated on the Open Ocean
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Fourteen newsrooms and independent journalists from 13 countries collaborated on the Oceans, Inc. project, to uncover stories about illegal fishing and forced slavery on the South China Sea and the oceans near Antarctica. Their cross-border reporting won the 2022 SOPA Award for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment.
Member Profiles
How Viewfinder Is Re-Imagining Investigative Journalism in South Africa to Expose Systemic Failures
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New GIJN member Viewfinder, a small nonprofit journalism organization, is re-imagining investigative reporting in South Africa by exposing the disproportionate effects of systemic failures on marginalized communities.